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Topping our political radar today, proof that politics can still make for strange bedfellows, even in these hyperpartisan times. democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and republican senator ted cruz agreed on twitter to work together to ban former lawmakers from taking paid lobbying positions. democratic senator and presidential candidate michael bennett is on board as well saying on twitter, wait a minute. this was my idea, but i'm for it. and senator elizabeth warren was on iheart radio's the breakfast club show this morning, a program that has hosted several other 2020 candidate...

Held accountable, but you have to go down that path when you're as ready as you can possibly be, and you don't know that until you go down the sglath will we be ready before the year 2020? >> yeah, we will. >> so the timeline is actually interesting. they are acknowledging that they would be able to do something with finality before 2020. that gives them seven months to work with right now. pelosi has maintained her position and house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler has lined up behind her on this. that there are ongoing investigations and despite what some of the more vocal members ...

I'll pass. thanks to robert mueller's surprise statement the number of democrats calling for impeaching proceedings has jumped to ten but one democratic candidate, senator michael bennett of colorado, told me during a cnn town ham last night he's not jumping on the impeachment train arguing it would only help donald trump. >> it is very important that we take a page out of history and do what they did with watergate which was to make sure the

In some ways is proposing is taking that out of the hands of congress and putting it in the hands of the executive branch. >> yeah. which is quite interesting. okay. everybody stand by. up next, we'll talk a little bit about the impeachment talk on the campaign trail. senator michael ben set going against the 2020 democratic grain making his case against booking an impeachment right yet and how he made a rare admission in a town hall last night saying he regrets a rule change that allowed judges to be confirmed with a simple majority. >> you call your vote to support that your biggest regret i...

They want to, you know. there are still some democrats running on the hillary clinton platform. they are not all running on the hillary clinton platform. >> that's the question, whether or not there's room for a michael bennett, you know, the progressives are wrong in this -- in this era, in this 2020 climate. >> yeah. i don't know where michael bennett fits in this sort of spectrum democratic candidates. your interview last night with him brought out -- he's very engaging. he's fun to talk to. he's very personable, but, you know, you look at the field. you have the old candidates. you have th...