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emily cochrane is a congressional report for the "new york times." she joins us by phone. she talks about impeachment and other issues. good morning, emily. guest: good morning. thank you for having me. host: we will put your article up, which we looked at briefly, and it says this, "new york democrats balance impeachment issue with local concerns." tell us about this impeachment issue. est: so i went to three town halls last week. all three representatives of eventually came out for impeachment, the impeachment inquiry, one of them actually at that town hall. sort ofe preempted any questions at the town hall with their own explanation of what the inquiry , where they stood, and opened the floor for questions, and for the most part, voters seemed satisfied with that explanation and instead wanted concerns,hem on local

climate change, their personal policy platforms, and how that was going to get done moving forward. host: we featured anthony brindisi, one of the eight democrats who does not support the impeachment inquiry. is he getting a lot of pressure? it is fair to say that he is getting a lot of pressure from both sides, because he is in a swing district that both sides know 2020,go either way, come but it seems like he is one of the few left who is really making that calculation. there are enough public is in his district that do support the president, that it is not worth coming out and supporting an inquiry. for someone like representative matt sholes, ultimately the allegations grew to a point where he felt he could come out and support the inquiry. house republican campaign

was attacking him anyway for being in favor of it, even before he came out, so it really is kind of a calculation in the face of a lot of pressure, i think both in person and on social media. host: what about new york republicans? how are they responding to impeachment? guest: for the most part, we see republicans across the country who try their best not to weigh in on this issue but emphasize that they do support the president. a couple whoen have said they would like to see all the facts come out, but for the most part, they are really avoiding weighing in on this issue. host: how about, speaking more broadly about upstate new york and other issues, what else is important to upstate new york these days? there is a lot a conversation about climate change, so what kind of legislation, for example, representative antonio delgado was a particular of the green

new deal. aboutt on multiple panes the kind of legislation he was support for it. he spoke a lot about infrastructure and commute, and even for representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, at one of her town halls, she was really pushing this new platform of helping just move america and level of the discrepancies between the classes. host: overall, which congressional seats are vulnerable in 2020 in new york, and how will impeachment impact those races? guest: certainly, as you said, indisi is onee brend of the most moldable canada, as our representative don't auto and representative rose. all are confident that they are able to hang onto their seats,

but certainly there is a chance for impeachment, and the inquiry itself really wants to face full-size of the aisle to come defend these moderates or take it back. president trump won in 2016 by quite a large margin, where there is room to see that see go back to republicans. host: emily cochrane is a congressional reporter for the "new york ti, thanks for calling. several points made by that last caller. joining us now by skype is abby livingston, the washington bureau chief for "the texas tribune." we just heard from someone from texas, concerned about corruption, not necessarily for impeachment right now. talk about how texans are reacting to their lawmakers and their various stances on impeachment. what is going on in texas? guest: i think we are still trying to figure this out. the polling is still pretty unclear, but what it seems to be