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All right, here are the questions Noah, but this could be for everybody.

What would it take for Republicans to break with Trump publicly?

I heard was it Ben Sass or Jeff Lake?

One of them said if they took the vote privately, 30 to 35 Republicans would vote to him

on Peach, but that's not publicly. What would it take?

Yeah, that's kind of hard to believe, but it wouldn't be off by that much.

I mean, it happened privately.

Privately, yeah.

So what would it take?

It would take for them to believe their political prospects are imperiled.

And that might sound like, you know, it's a moral failure and you could view it that way, but it's the fact.

And so if you start to see polls of impeachment that begin to swallow up a lot of independence

and 20% 30% of Republicans, then yeah, you're going to see where some Republicans jump ship.

Okay.

Barney, do you think Democrats will be able to stay united and on message throughout the impeachment process?

Or will the divisions between progressives and moderates re-emerge?

It is a bit of a minefield for that.

That's true.

Well, thanks to Nancy Pelosi, we will be united.

And she took on the people who were the female children peacher.

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