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Advantageous thing could, in fact, be one in the same. i think they are beginning to believe that there could actually be political advantage to keeping the president on the back foot, to really delving into this issue in a way that i do think was the case before. >> kurt, i did hear you weighing in as well. you're saying not a chance, right, that the president has read the report. kurt, one of the house democrats supporting impeachment is alexandria ocasio cortez. take a listen to what she said when asked why top democrats are hedging a little bit. >> these are your majority makers. all of th...

Impeachment, but there is a strategic advantage there which means it may be the only way to do what nancy pelosi said there, building an ironclad case. it may be the only way they can do that is using some of the powers they have under impeachment. >> part of it is you have such a vast majority in the house am dong democrats. you have the more liberals and you have what nancy pelosi and others call her majority makers who tend to be more moderate and less inclined on impeachment. let's listen first to benny thompson of mississippi who is in the former category. >> i talked to a lot of people. ...

In context. the voices for an inquiry into impeachment were loud. you had a few more voices join that after robert mueller spoke. but speaker pelosi and jerry nadler made clear yesterday they were willing to resist that pressure. one of the key reasons why is a numbers game. if you look at how many democrats up to this point have called for an impeachment inquiry. it's about 39. you can add justin amash, the only republican who appears open to it. so mow may have 40. 39 members is about 16% odd percent of the group. speaker pelosi pointed out this is a vocal group, a powerful group because the...

Majority makers, from swing districts, who were less liberal. the conor lambs of the caucus who were less liberal, maybe even less supportive of her personally. she is going to have to balance those majority makers with the needs of the democrats running for president as you point out where they are running to the left. just as republicans running for president run to the right trying to get their bases excited and you'll have a whole bunch of senators out there talking about the end of i.c.e. and how they need to end the immigration and customs enforcement then you'll have a bunch of democrat...

With a republican president of the united states. >> 230 is the projection that harry just shared. there's a 15-seat margin of victory. they'll take it. it's not a huge number. it's going to mean that the house of representatives, under a speaker pelosi theoretically, will have to avoid some of the more controversial votes if they want to win and keep all of what -- years ago nancy pelosi, the first time she won speaker, she had these individuals called the majority makers. these were the moderate democrats or at least democrats representing swing districts, and their needs were part of how sh...