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Matt Cartwright: “They [Republicans] got ahead of public sentiment, they got…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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DPCC Co-Chair Cartwright on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 00:37

The playbook has been laid out. If you want to bollocks up an impeachment, if you want to get it wrong, we saw them do that in the late 1990s. They [Republicans] got ahead of public sentiment, they got ahead of what the evidence showed and they went ahead and they impeached Bill Clinton and they paid for that for a Generation. It created MoveOn.org, you know, let's move on from Bill Clinton's private life. And Republicans paid dearly for that for a generation. Why would you want to go down that same path? (00:37–01:44)

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Asserts that Republicans impeached Bill Clinton ahead of public sentiment and evidence, and paid for it politically for a generation.

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