i did want to ask a question of chris porter, but i don't know, he just left. okay. so he is -- okay. so there was a point that was brought up about the voting threshold and that they had been reduced. can you clarify that in the amount of time that it would take and whether that had been a change? i think mr. wilson had brought up the concern about the voter threshold. >> that is a great question. sorry had to go close the election. the voter threshold worked for the state of california for the petitioning and it is 40% of the wait of the assessment of the total district. her article 15 of the transportation code, using the city statuses a charter city, the state code was augmented by article 15 for san francisco's purposes, since we have a lot of mixed-use neighborhoods and it lowered the threshold to 30% of the wait of assessments to authorizing election and also allowed c.b.d. to form initially for up to 15 years. >> but that has been in place in the case since 2005? >> 2004. >> 2004. there isn't a special situation? >> no, they have the ability to go up to 15 ye

chris, i mean this in positive terms, katy porter is the darling of the new kind of progressive left. she's a single mother of three, phillips, yale, harvard law school, does that give her choice any further weight and what people are missing is the 27% of the u.s. public backing impeachment, only 28% of pelosi's caucus says the same thing. >> well, what i would say is what gives her the most decision is not her background but the district she represents. she represents swing districts and she was just elected. she was part of the wave that sent the power back to the house. maybe they feel it is more political and momentum behind them pushing for this. it is somebody who may be at risk of losing their seat is back in impeachment. >> eliot, you know the argument. some democrats say this is a moral imperative and others say we have to live with the politics in the morning. >> members of congress, when they come in, they swear an oath to the constitution, not even to the constituents or polls or anything like that. if they believe to some extent they do have an obligation to act. here is

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chris hayes. we have breaking news at this hour. katie porter, a freshman california democrat, has just announced her support for an impeachment inquire yeah into donald trump. porter says he made the decision after weeks of deliberation, conversation with voters, and that while she did not come to congress to impeach the president, "when faced with a crisis of this magnitude, i cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the constitution. i can't claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work i do." porter is an interesting case. she defeated an incumbent republican in her district that was created in 1983 and from the time of its creation until porter's election had never once voted for a single democrat. she now becomes the 67th member of the house to favor starting an impeachment inquiry. 66 democrats and one lonely republican. that list includes michigan democrat andy levin who announced this position had switched at a tow

chris christie, from michael cohen, the president's now imprisoned personal lawyer. they went six different 302s because six different interviews. they want them from rob porter and steven miller and mack narnld and paul manafort and john kelly who was white house chief of staff until recently. they want the 302s from jeff sessions, former attorney general. reince priebus, another former white house chief of staff. plus a bunch of other trump white house officials like jared kushner and hope hicks and sean spicer and sarah sanders. they demanded notes taken from a bunch of different people inside the trump administration. they got specific dates on those notes because these specific notes are cited in the mueller report. so the committee knows that these things exist. rob porter's notes, reince priebus's notes, corey lewandowski's notes, lots of notes from annie johnson. lots of notes from a man listed as joseph hunt who familiarly goes at jodie hunt. he was cited for his contemporaneous notes when he was serving for jeff sessions. they want the memo to file that trump's white house counsel's office drafted after sally yates came up from the justice departmen

new jersey governor chris christie who got fired as the head of the trump transition, from michael cohen, the president's now imprisoned personal lawyer. they meant 302s from rob porter and steven miller and don mcgahn and k.t. mcfarlen and paul manafort also in prison and john kelly who until recently he was white house chief of staff. they want the 302s from jeff sessions, former attorney general. reince priebus, another former white house chief of staff. plus a bunch of other trump white house officials like jared kushner and hope hicks and sean spicer and sarah sanders. they want 302s from all of them. the committee has also demanded notes taken from a bunch of different people in the trump keim pain and administration. they've got specific dates they're asking for because these specific notes are cited in the mueller report. so the committee knows that these things exist. rob porter's notes, riebs priebus' notes. cory lewandowski's notes, john kelly's notes. lots and lots and of notes from amy donaldson who was chief counsel for don mcgahn. and jody hunts, he's cited a whole bunch of times in the mueller report both for his 302s and contemporaneous notes while h