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Concerned about. is it because there's a feeling that buttigieg would occupy that moderate lane if something were to happen to joe biden? >> that's b possible. if you look at the other three front-runners, you have two who have run for president and another very well-known r senator. for buttigieg to be in the same ballpark in terms of fund raising the tells you he's got something figured out. now buttigieg is not alone in the fact that he is jockeying for the more moderate position. there are a number of candidates who are essentially trying to position themselves to be b in the right spot sh...

But that impeachment power and the ability to investigate is one that is recognized, and the idea you have to impeach the president before you could investigate whether to impeach him or have the tools to investigate is probably at least a legally tenuous one. >> the democrats have to hope that same holding applies to them? >> that's exactly right. and i think what this reflects is the competing political priorities within the house democratic caucus right now. speakers nancy pelosi has to balance two sides of her caucus, one, the more progressive flank that wants to have a more aggressive pos...

That the justice department under trump is making this argument. and who knows how far along it goes in the court? maybe some of the justices the president has appointed to the supreme court would end up having a different view than the court has in the past. but that impeachment power and the ability to investigate is one that is recognized, and the idea that you would have to impeach the president before you could investigate whether to impeach him or have the tools to investigate is probably at least a legally tenuous one. >> so, andrew, the democrats have to hope that same holding applies ...

Department under trump is making this argument. who knows how far it goes along in the court. maybe some of the justices the president has appointed to the supreme court will end up having a different view than the court has had in the past. but that impeachment power and the ability to investigate is one that is recognized, and the idea you have to impeach the president before you could investigating whether to impeach him or have the tools to investigate is probably at least a legally tenuous one. >> the democrats have to hope that same holding applies to them? >> that's exactly right. and i...

I want to go back to something jonathan said, talking about setting the left flank on gun control. you're so right on that. it reminds me of the 2008 cycle and health care in 2008. and we know this very closely. we work on the john edwards campaign. john and elizabeth edwards set a very aggressive left progressive flank on herring. and that pushed the entire field including barack obama, including hillary clinton, that pushed the field to the left. and that hated the foundation for obamacare, for frankly the debate that we're seeing played out on obamacare in the first quarter of this debate. ...