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Democrats have to take the political remedy. you've already heard from nancy pelosi saying, you know, she's not ready to go to impeachment. she was in the same place in 2006 when she took impeachment off the table when she became speaker of the house and democrats took over. you have tim mack reporting in the daily beast that dianne feinstein on the senate side has said that impeachment hearings are very hard on the country. she wants to learn more, but shepshe thinks the i-word should be off the table. and a lot of people looking at the discomfort that republicans field and the fact that demo...

Know, there's a sense that there's a disconnect between what maybe viewers of the show, a lot of democrats, sort of feel in their gut, that this is sort of prima fascia evidence that the president has done something much worse than obstruction. and the appetite the elected democrats have to take the political remedy. you've already heard from nancy pelosi saying, you know, she's not ready to go to impeachment. she was in the same place in 2006 when she took impeachment off the table when she became speaker of the house and democrats took over. you have tim mack reporting in the daily beast tha...

>> how are you doing? good to see you. >> are you reading the story? >> i'm reading something about -- >> that is not entirely representative. other republicans are sounding different than they have in the wake of previous donald trump/white house crises. the republican chair of the house oversight committee jason chaffetz sent a letter to the fbi tonight asking for this comey memo. he said tonight he does have subpoena power. and according to tim mack of the daily beast, at a dinner held in his honor tonight, senator john mccain said, quote, i think we've seen this movie before. i think it ap...

Could have picked him up wholesale and add him to the white house. does that make sense? >> not at all. that's not the way it works. we inherited many people, and they were revetted particularly for cabinet posts and what have you in a very thorough now investigation. fbi background investigations are narrow. they look at the people on the application and talk to them. they don't go in depth. when you are at the white house level and do a vetting you go in much more deeply. particularly someone like a national security adviser, you don't rely on old background investigations. that's really jus...

You in a very thorough new investigation. fbi background investigations are very narrow, very thin. they look at the people on the application and talk to them. they don't go in depth. excepting when you're at the white house level and do a vetting, you go much deeper. and typically, particularly someone like a national security adviser, you don't rely on old background investigations. that's really just weak on the trump part. >> tim, especially because this is somebody who was fired as head of the defense intelligence agency. all the reporting on general michael flynn is that for most of his...