where all we are talking about his impeachment. i think this is an unforced error by the democrats. i think it is a politically unsavvy move. unfortunately, for them, it s taking all of the oxygen out of the room as it relates to the presidential race right now. shannon: leslie, what about that? whether it is democrat or republican in the white house, when there is a good economy, it s tough for the opposing party to make a good run at the white house. a couple of things. first, yeah, there are people watching the hearings but the hearing is not changing their mind, they didn t think it would. but when you look at what matters to them even though the economy, everyone says in the past, the clinton years, it s the economy, stupid. through the health care now. such as health care, its immigration, some of those other issues, although health care comes under the umbrella of economy, and a lot of americans to look at it is that. things were so great, then president trump would be lea
qualified rating from the american bar association. let s turn to carrie severino, and also author of the book on the kavanaugh proceedings. such an intriguing moment in our history. let s talk about this, part of the presidents really record-breaking speed he has been able, along with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, get a number of judges from the district, the appellate and supreme court levels. not everyone is happy about it. oh, yeah, there s a lot to be excited about from our perspective. this is the 50th appellate judge that donald trump has had concerned in eight years, obama only had 55 appellate judges confirmed, so this is an incredible accomplishment, and a lot on the left are really angry to see what success he has had, because these are just a lot of judges, they are young, so smart, so talented and experienced, and they are so much more courageous and have
grief and pushback. the polls show it is not political. if your speaker pelosi in the polls are either stagnant or it is coming down, and you see swing voters, independent voters more opposed to it than in favor of it well, if it is political, you would completely back off, and we just don t see her doing that. shannon: do you think she is too far down the road? it seems like come at this point, there are whispers about censure, but no way, we are not doing bad, so far down the past, it s impeachment or nothing. i do the good so far down the path. she took her time, and there was a reason she took her time. originally, she said she wanted bipartisan support, and i think she thought she would get that, it s clear that she won t. but i really feel that she, as the house speaker, is doing with the house needs to do. that it is their obligation to uphold the constitution and to keep those branches of power equal and to keep the president and check with the house over the executive br
debate. when you have to make up the facts and get them as the law professor said last week, infer something may have happened then you have a real problem with impeachment. shannon: what you say to the folks on jerry nadler, who have said, essentially, the chairman of the house judiciary committee, that listen, if we don t allow the president if we don t move forward with this, we will allow a situation in which the president disregards a coequal branch, meaning congress, by not complying with subpoenas and other document requests, republican or democrat, it s not something congress should allow to be established that type of precedent. that is not for chairman nadler to say, he is exaggerating a point. chairman nadler has not negotiated in good faith with this administration. i was in the judiciary committee when president obama was in office, and we have had this problem running with the attorney general holder at the time. your member the fast and furious negotiations. th
impeachment is in talk of the town, but there is very little talk about the house passing the u.s.-mexico-canada agreement, or usmca, being touted as a win for house speaker nancy pelosi, but also a victory for president trump, which means democratic senators running for the white house would not touch it with a 10-foot monmouth poll, which, by the way, shows public opinion on impeachment has not budged. shannon? shannon: trace gallagher live on the west coast, thank you. blistering testimony from the justice department watchdog michael horowitz, the inspector general. decrying what he called a failure of the entire chain of command in the fbi s rupture probe. here s chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel of what we heard today from horowitz. mike? shannon, good evening. justice department inspector general says candidate donald trump at his 2016 campaign were never notified about possible russian infiltration. in fact, horwitz says the only briefing they received was an