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Penned a brand-new op-ed titled "while we're moving forward with impeachment." joining me phillipe rains, donna clinton, ezra levin, the co-executive director of indivisible which is a progressive organization building a grassroots movement to defeat the trump agenda. congresswoman edwards, let me ask first your read on all this and how you view leadership's position vis-a-vis the polling, the politics, and protecting what they view as those 30 to 40 front line members. >> i think right now, i mean obviously leadership is in a bind. but it was really clear in the petition to the court seeking ...

Fight, fight, and we don't care. the grassroots won and shut down the government. the polling on it was terrible and everyone said it is going to cost them. and a year later, not a single vote was cast in america on that shutdown. not a single one. people moved on to other things. people are thinking that impeachment is going to happen in the elections the next day. but that's not the way it's going to work. >> that's what happened in '98 where it straddled the midterms. we're a year away. >> yeah. >> a and the two previous impeachments have been three or four months. we could be done with thi...

Risk politically for what will ultimately almost surely be an acquittal in the senate. here is the latest polling today. i want to get your responses. 37% of voters said they support impeachment proceedings to remove trump from office, down 2 points from a january poll, and 46 -- i wish we had the other part. i think it's like 46% or 41%? 46% who don't want to start impeachment proceedings. >> yeah, you know, i think the striking thing about those numbers is they're far, far higher than the numbers for removing president nixon from office when the watergate hearings began. and i think this is ...

There was an effort to protect an american royalty image during that trip to the uk. help us understand from where you sit here in washington watching those worlds. what did that say to you, that last visit the president took, his sense of or attitude toward the uk vis-a-vis his sense of himself? >> i think it was perhaps old-fashioned, that love of britain there and the sense of down t downton abbey and the things trump stands for. trump talked about how much he loved meeting the queen, that sort of deference to past traditions. i think particularly the trump family just adored all the trappi...

That a discussion offers the ability for all sides to present persuasive arguments and ultimately present this argument before our constituents, vis-a-vis the american people. >> but the discussion meaning opening an impeachment inquiry. is that what you would consider having a discussion, that initial step? >> that's why i voted in favor of mr. green's legislation. >> i mean the perception, and i think the speaker understands this, is even if you move forward with an impeachment inquiry, which is the initial step, you've crossed the rubicon on impeachment. americans consider that to be the be...