Elissa Slotkin on Impeachment Attitudes in Swing Districts

WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO TELL ANYTHING ANYMORE, IF YOU'RE HOLDING MORE OF THESE ABOUT THIS PROCESS GOING FORWARD?

OF COURSE, MICHIGAN WENT FOR THE PRESIDENT IN 2016.

IT DID AND WE JUST HAD A TOWN HALL LAST FRIDAY.

THE VIDEO YOU WERE SHOWING WAS FROM TOWN HALLS WE HAD RIGHT AFTER AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY WAS LAUNCHED.

I DID THREE TOWN HALLS IN THREE DAYS AND THEN WE JUST DID ANOTHER ONE OF OUR REGULAR TOWN HALLS THE PAST FRIDAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE STILL VERY DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE AND I HAVE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP WITH SIGNS AND THEY'RE PROTESTING AND A LOT OF SIMILAR COMMENTS TO WHAT YOU HEARD.

IN FACT, SOME OF THE SAME EXACT PEOPLE AT THE EVENT IN HEARTLAND SHOW UP AND THEN I HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE.

I THINK WHERE WE JUST DIFFERED AND YOU HEARD IT IN THE CLIP, I'M A FORMER CIA OFFICER.

AND A FORMER PENTAGON OFFICIAL.

I DID THREE TOURS IN IRAQ ALONGSIDE THE MILITARY.

SO WE JUST HAD TO AGREE TO DISAGREE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE OUR CIA AND OUR FBI BEING AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OR THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF ATTEMPTED COUP AT THE PRESIDENT.

MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE MILITARY 30 YEARS.

THERE'S NOT A COUP GOING ON AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

NOW, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, IT IS MY JOB TO REPRESENT MY ENTIRE DISTRICT AND WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO IS EXPRESS TO PEOPLE THAT EVEN IF THEY DON'T AGREE WITH MY DECISION TO SUPPORT AN INQUIRY, I WANTED TO COMMUNICATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND BE OUT THERE AND AVAILABLE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY KNEW THAT EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T AGREE, THAT I WAS DOING IT BECAUSE OF A SENSE OF INTEGRITY AND BECAUSE, FOR ME, THE EVENTS RELATED TO UKRAINE WERE REALLY DIFFERENT.

IT WAS DIFFERENT THAN EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN THE YEAR PRIOR AND IT WAS ABOUT MY OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.

SO THAT IS THE BEST I CAN DO AND WE'VE HAD A REALLY VARIED RESPONSE FROM OUR DISTRICT BUT I'LL KEEP GOING OUT THERE AND KEEP SHOWING UP AT TOWN HALLS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I OWE MY CONSTITUENTS AND WANT THEM TO KNOW I'M ALWAYS READY TO LISTEN.