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Independents, 57% support the inquiry, 49% support removal. support for the inquiry is up among republicans to 30%. 20% of republicans favor removal. these are brutal numbers for the president. >> they are terrible numbers, and it's bad news across the board. these numbers with republicans are creeping up, you know. i can understand 30% on the inquiry, but the 20% for removal is terrible, but even worse news is independents. donald trump won because he convinced enough independents that hillary clinton didn't have the character to be president. it's ironic now or absurd now. independent wills ...

Results, that people might begin to think, you know, this guy just can't do the job? >> well, i think i'd say two things. one is that if you look at syria specifically, if you talk to people in the pentagon they'll tell you and joe mentioned this earlier and he's absolutely right, this is a policy that people see as working. and so they're just confused about why the president would be messing with it. it's not something like you've seen in afghanistan, for instance. and so it's largely supportive. in terms of the poll, you know, the number that sticks out to me is this 49% of people who suppo...

Who support impeachment. "the washington post" 49% support removal. nbc poll today 43% support removal. quinnipiac poll 45% support removal. this is at the beginning of the inquiry, ari. when nixon's inquiry began in may of '74 he was like in the 20s in terms of percentages of people supporting removal. he didn't reach the 40 percentile until he released the edited transcripts of him plotting against his enemies. then over 40% of the public was for nixon's removal. trump is already at 40% in terms of his removal and he's already plotting with his enemies so he's right where nixon was. >> you l...

Solution and fix the problem, which he's done by allowing for that six month period. >> we've had this conversation weekly. >> again, i'm not sure on the exact timeline, but i know he has had many conversations with people on both sides of this issue. certainly people that support keeping it as is and those that support removal. like i said, i know he's had conversations with people that have been part of the program. >> you said the president wrestled this weekend. can you talk about the process he went with? >> he made the final decision over the weekend. as i said, he spoke to many relevant...

The bz in. of white voters, 50% oppose removal. 39% support removal. black voters, 67 support support, 21% oppose. and history in this case removal and 42% oppose removal. is this going to affect the move to take away these statues across the country, maybe take away these statues in the u.s. capitol as some democrats are trying to do? >> i think it will in many ways exacerbate the debate. and i think that the good part of that debate will be that we'll be able to educate the public. as i've traveled around the country, people don't understand until you explain to them, these people were tryin...