Well, enormous pressure now especially with a Democratic Congress set to take office in January with the power of oversight that hasn't been exercised over the last two years. It's enormous pressure.
David Axelrod discusses the pressure on the Trump administration with the incoming Democratic Congress.
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I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
He wanted Zelenskyy to be an accomplice in dirtying up Joe Biden, who he feared as an opponent.
I think the Democratic party has become too much of a cosmopolitan, college educated party. It still advocates for working people, but it doesn't really communicate with them very well.
There's a cost to U.S. credibility and there's a cost to Trump's credibility by bluffing like this and then pulling back.
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