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elaine luria stands up for a lot of reason.cratic that not just went for trump but romney before that. she got national security shops. literally nobody else is in congress right now. in the midst of the national security crisis, admitting he pressed a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent while withholding military aide to that leader in the meantime is making people sit up and take notice that elaine luria has joined her fellow democrats to call that action, quote "impeachable offense." >> they write tonight, we call on our colleagues and congress to consider these of all congressional authorities available to us including the power of inherit on attempt and impeachment hearings. find the truth and protect our national security. joining us now is congressman elaine. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> it is weird to talk about you right next to you. social awkwardness. >> this is a serious step though. this opt-ed that you written with your colleagues, can you tell me of your thinking

attorney general, congressman bobby scott, congresswoman elaine luria.ouse of delegates speaker, kirk cox. members of our legislative black caucus and other elected officials. i want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make this commemoration a reality. fort monroe authority director glenn otis. board of trustees chairman jim moran. members of the fort monroe authority board. national superintendent terry graham. the national parks service. kathy spangler, nancy rodriguez and the team from american evolution. i would also like to thank the 2019 commemorative commission for all the hard work they've done around these events in our own city. we are here today for a commemoration. and a reckoning. today is a time to reckon with the fact that 400 years ago, enslaved africans arrived for the first time on virginia's shores. like you and me, they had lives and families. lives and families they would never see again. just up the river, in jamestown, a few weeks earlier, white, landowning men had come together to establish a system of representative gove

national security, along about others that will now be ignored, says democratic congresswoman, elaine luriaval commander whose district is also affected. >> i know firsthand from having spoken to the commanders at the bases where this is going to happen that it is going to impact our mission and our security. >> reporter: not just the security of the nation but those serving it, whose priorities now may not be addressed. >> it's like your husband, it's your 98 poneighbor, it's your w going on a deployment and you don't want to think their ship wasn't maintained properly or they don't have the tools they need to do their job. it hits home a lot in a community like this where everyone is tied to the military. >> the pentagon is pushing back on the notion that they have been defunded. they have just been deferred. but this $3.6 billion had been specifically appropriated by congress for these projects. democrats say this is exactly why you have congressional approval, and now to get those projects refunded, the money needs to be reapproved by congress, which is far from certain. and then when i

to national security, along with others that will now be ignored, says democratic congresswoman elaine luriafirsthand from having spoken to the commanders at the bases where this impact is going to happen that it is going to impact our mission and security. >> reporter: not just the security of the nation, but those serving it, whose priorities now may not be addressed. >> it's like your husband, your neighbor, your wife who's going on a deployment and you don't want to think their ship wasn't maintained properly or they didn't have the tools they needed to do their job. it hits home a lot in a community like this where everyone is tied to the military. >> reporter: the pentagon is pushing back on this idea that these projects have been defunded. they say they have just been deferred for now. this $3.6 billion had been specifically appropriated by congress for these projects and so it's getting political. democrats say this is exactly why you have congressional approval and now to get those projects refunded, the money has to be reapproved by congress, which is far from certain. >>> as both

. >> democratic congresswoman elaine luria of virginia is with us now.ongresswoman, thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. >> thank you. >> do you think it's possible to have this inquiry and be unified at the same time, not divide the country any further? >> well, i'll tell you that i didn't come to washington to impeach the president, but i also didn't spend 20 years in the navy to allow this to happen, to allow our constitution to be trampled on. i made this decision to come forward this week without a political calculation. it could very well cost me my seat in congress but i, like my colleagues, we have to be able to look at ourselves in the mirror and say we did the right thing at the end of this. >> so what pushed you into the line of we need to impeach this president? was there any specific thing that happened -- >> these allegations with the president and this conversation with the president of ukraine, here we have the president of the united states having a conversation with a foreign leader and lifting him to conduct an investigatio

to national security along with others that will now be ignored says democratic congresswoman elaine luria a retired naval commander whose district is also affected you know, i know firsthand from having spoken to the commanders at the base is with us and pakistan happened that. >>it is going to impact our mission and our security not just the security of the nation. but those serving it. >>whose priorities now may not be addressed like your husband and your neighbor is your wife is going on a deployment. >>and you don't want to think that another ship wasn't maintained properly. i didn't have the right tools that they need to go do their job so it hits home, a lot in the community and that's why everyone is so tied to the military. >>that was alex marquardt reporting you back here in california homelessness is one of the biggest issues certainly in the bay area and many critics say it is now affecting the bay area's reputation as a good place to live work and even visit. >>kron four's catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics sat down with oakland congresswoman barbara lee. she sa

. >> exactly what nancy pelosi said and what elaine luria, freshman democratic congresswoman said as well. penned an op-ed in the "post." thank you. >>> will president trump face impeachment proceedings? we could find out very soon. house speaker nancy pelosi telling our correspondent nanu raju she will deliver a statement in two hours from now. this is what she said hours ago. >> again, and he has referenced that, and if that is the case that the president of the united states would ask a foreign government to assist him in a political way, that would be wrong. >> would it be impeachable? >> let me just say that everything we've been doing up until now is about preserving that republic that benjamin franklin said, a republic if we can keep it, and he -- and -- and that means it's not a monarchy, and we have a system of checks and balances in our constitution. three quo equal branches of government to be a check on each other and that, that is a republic, is a democracy. it is not a monarchy. >> let's do analysis about the great voices joining me. david chalian, you first. cnn politi

elaine luria is part of a group of seven democrats with backgrounds in national security who just released an op-ed in the "washington post" saying this latest trump scandal is a threat they are sworn to protect against. one of those seven, abigail spanberger, will be speaking with lawrence at this hour tomorrow night. but coming up in a moment we'll talk to two members of the democratic caucus in the house about that growing tide for impeachment. mitt romney tweeted his concerns about what the president is accused of doing and tonight romney spoke on camera. and another republican senator expressed concerns too this evening. plus former governor bill weld, rick wilson and jen rubin will be here to discuss the muted reaction from the gop. and at the end of the show the rise of elizabeth warren in the democratic party. her momentum continues in the latest polls and this weekend both she and joe biden took to the picket lines with striking uaw members. but tonight we start with growing calls for an impeachment inquiry to president trump, calls that are being zric ing da presidential admissio

elaine hula hand, michelle luria, cheryl, slotkin and spanberger of virginia.ough wonder why now especially with so many questions about what actually took place on a phone call they say there was a quid pro quo. you investigate joe biden or you will not get $400 million. that is what they think went on. they got $400 million. nobody is investigating joe biden. we have a different story took place in june about the same $400 million. steve: kellyanne conway was with us half an hour ago. we were talking about this swirl of news. she said this about the democrat. >> the same people who invented the russian hoax and wasted tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money all of our time for about two years to come up with absolutely nothing. they tried with michael cohen. they tried with john dean. they tried with bob mueller himself, the mueller report. they couldn't even take hundreds of pages of the mueller report to find anything to indict or impeach the president. now they're inventing this. steve: never let a good whistle-blower scandal to waste. brian: time to