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It's a political task. until you have majority of the country supporting it than opposes it, occurring at a time when taking oxygen and attention away from the agenda the democrats want to focus on chbts intere . >> interesting, the see there-hour debate thursday did not come up. top tier candidates on the stage. thanks to you, matt and chris. thank you, gentlemen. a line that may haunt the democratic party for years. did beto o'rourke sink dems chances of getting gun reform legislation passed anytime soon? >> hell, yes, we're going 0 it take your ar-15, your a ak-47. k

Responsibility. pursuing and investigating the president is within their p purview and they should pursue. if the talk of impeachment becomes the primary focus of the media, the public, at the expense, i think, of the issues that will end up defining this next election, which is health care, the economy, income inequality, guns, race issues, things i think people are focusing on more and more, you can do both. depends how you balance it. >> matt, pick up on that. you get a sense even though the president is tweeting about impeachment, just yesterday morning saying how can you impeach him when ...

Whether that benefits the president or republicans is not clear. to be honest, it's not like they have a really strong message and whenever something happens, the president seemingly steps on it, anyway. so i think part of the challenge here is to what extent over the coming months do we focus effectively on the other issues that matter. if it's only about impeachment, it could become a political problem. >> matt, nodding in approval. why? >> yeah. i mean, i think chris, the point he's making. one of the greatest frustrations house democrat have is their agenda is not breaking through. it's no...

Impeachment inquiry or not. everyone has their own definition. it's clear speaker pelosi doesn't want to call it impeachment inquiry and chairman nadler does. a bit of a difference in their leadership. the challenge democrats have is that, you know, proceeding with impeachment is possible among the base. you rightly noted 134 of their members more than half support it. the problem is, receipts they need to hold to keep the majority. 31 seats with democratic members of congress to trump, only two on list of 134. there majority makers, their swing district members do not want this. it's not popu...

Dramatically claiming everybody wants the job. that's classic trump hyperbole. also saying probably about 5 contenders. among them we have seen a handful of names that have come to pass including people already in the administration or working closely with the president. there's keith kellogg, national security advisers to the vice president. rick ren nell, serving as ambassador to germany who is in washington right now. tom bossert, previously homeland security adviser to the president is out of the administration now. rick waddell, who's been a part of the administration and a part of the na...