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He says that's the characterization of the meeting and speaker pelosi's comments and i agree with her. today we need to get the government reopened. it's 14 days -- >> it's a different interpretation than what we heard from the president -- >> well, he's a liar, brooke. those are my words, not yours. he's a liar. >> scott? >> most of the new freshmen definitely want to impeach the president. most of the activists and people who voted in the midterm want to impeach the president, 6.5 million democrats have signed a petition to impeach the president. if nancy pelosi thinks she can tamp this down...

Elected anyway. this is going to continue to come up in detroit. >> scott, what did you think of her words? >> i'm not particularly offended by salty language. i thought it was noteworthy that she was bragging about having used that language in answering a question about our nation's political affairs to her own child. i think a lot of people probably feel the way she does. in cnn's own exit polls, nearly 80% of democrats said they want to impeach the president. i'm sure they say this in nebraska. you can't hide what's inside. democrats want to impeach the president. now, she did it in saltier...

Says among other things. this is going to come up again and again and again because these folks who went to congress reflect the people who voted for democrats in the midterm and the democrats spoke loud and clear, we want impeachment, we're going to be talking about it for two straight years. >> democrats did not run on impeachment. >> simone, read cnn's own exit polls. >> people can say whatever they want in the exit polls about what they feel. that's not what democrats ran on. and i would like to note an impeachable offense, what happens the house of representatives decide is an impeachable...

I assume she's new. i think she dishonored herself and she dishonored her family, using language like that. >> scott generalin generalingen back with us. simone, starting with you, i want to take this in two parts. i want to take the congresswoman's word choice first. what did you make of that? >> folks may not know, she represents the 13th district in michigan, which represents detroit and wayne county. part of the during her came they said she was too rash and not befitting of the temperament of a members of congress. i say that to say the comments this we saw from congresswoman

Anymore, they're legislators who have to deal on a team. >> if you take the president at his word, scott, the president in talking about this conversation he had with speaker pelosi and the other democratic members, he says that nancy pelosi straight up told him we are not looking to impeach you. i don't know how that will sit with some democrats, but what -- >> but that's not what she said. >> we can't say, we weren't in the room. >> nancy pelosi's deputy chief of staff has tweeted. i asked him myself. he said that donald trump opened the meeting talking about impeachment in his opening comme...