>> Last night, CNN specifically Chris Cuomo, a lot of progressive on the program, okay?
And that progressive was Genki ogre?
The topic revolved around whether or not Donald Trump should be impeached, should the Democrats
particularly Nancy Pelosi go after Trump with an impeachment inquiry.
Well, we all know how Trump feels about that, he believes that that should be the case and
he was on Cuomo's show with a GOP strategist.
Let's see how it went.
>> And in regards to impeachment I'm curious Patrick, Nancy Pelosi tells me that you guys
are looking forward to it.
So do you want us to impeach Donald Trump?
Say it right here on national TV.
>> I think Nancy Pelosi if she wasn't as smart as she is, should be goaded into letting her
caucus lead her down that rabbit hole of impeach.
So do you want it, do you say Donald Trump should be impeached?
>> Donald Trump would love that and here's the thing.
>> Okay, but do think Donald Trump should be impeached?
>> She's gonna do well with that when you try and sell it to the mainstream of America.
>> I am gonna sell it.
>> There's nobody out there who gets this except you.
You're gonna try and do it, hasn't worked so far.
>> Do you what your, Patrick, do you want Donald Trump impeached?
Cuz I hear from the Democratic leadership that you want Donald Trump impeached, is that
true?
Do you want him impeached?
>> I think the Democrats should try to make their entire campaign about impeaching Donald
Trump.
>> Okay, great, then you want it, okay.
>> And they will fail miserably as they did with Hillary Clinton.
>> Patrick Griffon, looks like you wanna get Donald Trump impeached.
>> Cuomo was having fun there too watching that.
>> Yeah.
>> He was like, okay.
>> His face, his face, at one point he even licks his lips.
>> He's like, tasty.
>> That was great.
>> That was, he did a solid job.
>> It was so funny.
I mean, just the reaction.
First of all, this is what happens when you have a strong progressive on the news.
Not only is it entertaining, which is of course something that they care about, but you have
someone who's actually willing to fight, not cower to whoever, whichever conservative is
on with them.
It was great.
>> Yeah, and we always talk about like, that's what we wanna see.
We wanna see people, just it's one question, you're gonna answer it.
No, you're gonna answer it.
>> Yes.
>> You know?
>> Yeah, so we have more clips, let's go to the next one.
>> Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump, we can both disagree with them.
And I disagree with both on a lot of things.
But I'll tell you this, Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump politically are playing three dimensional
chess while everybody else is playing checkers here.
>> That's why the speaker has not moved to impeach this president.
>> Okay.
>> And she probably won't.
>> Donald Trump couldn't play two dimensional chess.
He's never thought one step ahead in his life, total loser, through and through.
And if you're saying to me, hey, Nancy Pelosi's not much of a strategist, either, I would
agree.
But somehow you think she's great and that makes no sense at all.
By the way, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans think you're great.
That should be a no to you.
>> That was actually my favorite part because of course, know Cenk.
And I know how he thinks in regard to Trump and any type of point that he has a strategy,
>> Right?
>> He gets angry every time someone tries to say, this might be Trump's strategy.
So I love the fact that that, what is his name, Patrick, mentions strategy there with
three-dimensional chess and I got to see what Cenk's reaction would be on live television.
>> Exactly, we all needed that.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah >> That laugh, that belly laugh was really
good.
All right, one more clip.
>> Okay >> Cenk, on your thing, so that is what you
think it is.
At the end of the day if the Democrats don't go down that road of accountability, let's
call it, cuz impeachment is gonna be a process but it's about accountability.
You believe they lose their own party, that the party will say you didn't do what we put
you there for, is that your argument?
>> As a matter of principle, if you have a president who says he's above the law, and
he's broken to a clear felonies, like I said, broken two laws well, you must act.
If you don't act you're abdicating your responsibility and it's a violation of your oath to the Constitution.
Can you imagine if a prosecutor said well, look, the guy's clearly broken the law, but
for my own political career I'm not gonna prosecute him, that would be outrageous.
>> We just kinda saw that.
>> So I agree with Cenk's point there, but I'm actually really curious what you think
Brook because we haven't talked about it personally.
Now on one hand you have those who say no, Nancy Pelosi is really smart here.
It's actually a good strategy because it would actually help Republicans and it would help
Trump get reelected if they go after him with an impeachment inquiry.
At the same time you have the argument from someone like Cenk and again I agree with this
argument, that even if it's likely that this would hurt Democrats politically, which I
don't even think is necessarily the case.
And even though that we know that it's likely not going to go anywhere in the Senate, it's
the right thing to do because we have a Constitutional crisis here.
Which argument do you like lean toward the most?
>> Well, so exactly what he asked there do you think voters, people are gonna be upset
because hey, this is what we put you here to do.
Yes because that's exactly what they're saying now.
I think how many town halls have we seen where impeachment comes up from someone in the audience.
Who says, I'm frustrated, because was it Pete, the guy stood up and said, I'm frustrated
because I feel like all the work we put in in this last election and the moves we made
with Congress, I feel like it was all for nothing.
People are saying that already.
>> Right, and more importantly yes that there is that perspective, but I think what frustrates
me personally about how this is being handled by the Democratic leadership.
Is that everything is a political calculation as opposed to doing what leaders are supposed
to do.
So, I say this on the show often, leaders are not people who just simply follow the
crowd or do what's gonna be good for their own personal career.
Leader's lead, they put themselves in uncomfortable positions.
They take risks knowing that risk is worth it because you're pushing for the right thing.
In this case, you have a president who has not only broken the law with potential obstruction
of justice, but who has broken the law in a variety of other issues.
The illegal campaign payments, the hush money payments to stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
You have the fact that he was using his own charity to enrich himself when you have all
of these different issues.
The possibility that he inflated his assets to obtain loans through Deutsche Bank and
then deflated his assets to allegedly commit tax fraud, these are all crimes.
And no one including the president of the United States should be above the law.
If you have someone like Nancy Pelosi say, no, I'm not gonna do the right thing here
because it would be politically unpopular.
Well, then you're communicating to Trump and to other presidents in the future.
You are above the law because Congress will not do anything to hold you accountable cuz
they're gonna think that it's politically unpopular to do so.
>> Right, like hey, this is what we're supposed to do when put in this situation.
When faced with this situation, this is actually what we're supposed to do.
When we accept this job, we have agreed to follow these rules and that's frustrating.
It's frustrating to watch because there's no real reason why not.
They keep explaining, I think well this is what impeachment actually is, and everyone
is like we know.
>> We know, exactly.
>> I know, it's treating the electorate as if they're idiots and they have no idea how
government works, how impeachment works.
We know, we understand, we understand the risks, but we also understand the risks of
not doing anything about what's happening right now.
>> Nothing is being done, and it's all just being thrown in their face too.
It's like, okay, we're not gonna do this, we don't feel like it's the time for this.
We're gonna do something smaller, we are going to subpoena all of these people and have them
show up and we will show you guys.
We will show you we have a plan and Trump warehouses, no one care about that either
>> Exactly, we are not gonna corporate >> What else you've got?
We don't care about that.
Try me, we don't care about that, for some reason the answer is still, well, we still
don't want it, I don't get it.
>> And also, think about this, with 2020 quickly approaching you have Democratic leadership.
And some of the candidates constantly fear mongering about how terrible Trump is, which
by the way Trump is terrible, right?
I know that, I have to talk about it on a daily basis.
But if you're gonna make the case that Trump is terrible, that he's dangerous for our democracy,
and then refuse to even attempt to impeach him.
Well, then that will signal to some voters maybe Trump isn't really that bad.
Because if Trump is really that dangerous and if this is really a Constitutional crisis
well, then wouldn't they attempt to impeach him?
>> Wouldn't you be doing something about it?
>> Exactly.