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President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office and desperate Democrats are busy trying to impeach him.

Rep. Maxine Waters said Trump may have already committed an impeachable offense if Democrats can be proved his campaign colluded withRussia in devising strategy to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Appearing on MSNBCs Hardball, Waters was asked to explain what she meant when she used the term collusion.

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The California lawmaker said if they discover that Trump or his advocates strategized with Russia, then impeachment is a legitimate question.

If they are the ones who came up with Crooked Hillary,' Waters said, if they are the ones who came up with shes ill, somethings wrong with her energy, and the way that he basically described her in the campaign, I think that is something that would put the question squarely on the table whether or not he should be impeached.

So you think you could have an impeachable offense before you take office, host Chris Matthews asked.

Waters came back with a nonsensical word salad:

Well I think at the point that investigations discover and can confirm and document any of that, she replied, that they had a role in helping to strategize, they had a role in attempting to determine the outcome that in many ways they used the information that they got from the DNC when they hacked into our e-mails, et cetera, if that was used against Hillary Clinton in some ways, yes, I think thats impeachable.

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Former President George H.W. Bush, and former first lady Barbara Bush attend the Texas A&M University commencement ceremony in College Station, Texas, December 12, 2008. Larry Downing / Reuters

"Doctors performed a procedure to protect and clear his airway that required sedation," McGrath said. "President Bush is stable and resting comfortably in the ICU, where he will remain for observation."

McGrath said doctors believe the procedure, in which a tube was used to remove a blockage in a lung, was a success. Until Wednesday morning's issue, Bush was making great progress, McGrath said. "Yesterday, he was telling everybody he'd be out by Thursday or Friday," he said.

Bush chief of staff Jean Becker earlier said he's "fine and he's doing really well," according to the

President Barack Obama was among those wishing George and Barbara Bush well. "They are as fine a couple as we know. So we want to send our prayers and our love to them."

Former President Bill Clinton said his thoughts were with the Bushes after learning about their hospital stays Wednesday. Hillary Clinton also sent her well wishes in a tweet and President-elect Donald Trump said he was "looking forward to a speedy recovery."

Bush, who served as U.S. president from 1989 to 1993, has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility. He was hospitalized in Maine in 2015 after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck.

In December 2014, he was hospitalized in Houston for about a week for shortness of breath. Previous to those stays, he spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.

Despite the loss of mobility, he celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump in Kennebunkport. Last summer, Bush led a group of 40 wounded warriors on a fishing trip at the helm of his speedboat, three days after his 92nd birthday celebration.

His office announced earlier this month that George H.W. and Barbara would not attend Donald Trump's inauguration this week due to the former president's age and health.

"Barbara and I are so sorry we can't be there for your inauguration on January 20th. My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under. Same for Barbara. So I guess we're stuck in Texas," Bush said in a Jan. 10 letter. "But we will be with you and the country in spirit."

"Bush 41," as he affectionately became known, entered politics in 1964 when he lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas. But he went on to win a House seat two years later and run again for Senate in 1970 at the urging of President Richard Nixon. He was unsuccessful, however, Nixon rewarded Bush by appointing him as ambassador to the United Nations.

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George H.W. Bush, right, and his wife Barbara Bush, wave to the crowd at a victory celebration rally in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 8, 1988. J. Scott Applewhite / AP

From there he went on to hold a host of different titles, including chairman of the Republican National Committee, the U.S. envoy to China, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The experiences would prove the cornerstone of his failed 1980 presidential campaign that led to his selection as Ronald Reagan's running mate. It catapulted his own presidential campaign in 1988 when he defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis.

As the 41st president, he helped oversee the end of the Soviet Union, made two selections to the Supreme Court and, most notably, stood up to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, temporarily boosting him to record-high approval ratings.

But a faltering economy and breaking his famous "no new taxes" pledge led to Bush's 1992 loss to Bill Clinton.

McGrath said the outpouring of support and well wishes have been comforting.

"It's been truly heartwarming to see the positive messages, the prayers, the thoughts that are being directed to both President and Mrs. Bush emails and phone calls from all over the country and all over the world," he said.

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Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most recognizable figures in the world. Shes known forbeing theUnited States first female Democratic nominee for president, serving as Secretary of State under the Obama administration and for championing health care as First Lady. But also woven into the fabric of Clintons complicated legacy is one sharp, memorable comment that shegave reporters back in1992 during the Democratic presidential primary: I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life, Clinton told media.

A hoopla blossomed from her words, andFamily Circlemagazine responded by challenging the soon-to-be First Lady to a bake-off. And so, Americans are left with another (this time accidental) legacy from the trailblazing politician: her recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Ive been baking the cookies myself, artist Jennifer Rubell told me by phone. You learn a lot about someone by making this recipe. The New York-based artist has made a name for herself in the art world for creating elaborate performances involving foodand witty interactive sculptures. This week, she opens her first New York gallery show at Sargents Daughters on the Lower East Side, titled Housewife, and among the works on viewwhich include a sculpturethat allows viewers to carry a bride over the threshold, vacuum in high-heels and a painting that featuresthe artists real cell phone numberis a 5-foot-tall orange cookie jar which has beencast in the shape of one of Clintons iconic pantsuits. For the showsduration, the sculpture, calledVessel,will be filled with cookies made using Clintons recipe, and baked by Rubell.

Shes a public figure for my generation of women. She was a vessel for our dreams and frustrations, said Rubell. The territory in Hillary that most interests me is the relationship between her feminism and femininity.

Vesselwasclose to 80 percent finished before the election on November 8, according to the artist. And while some last-minute decisions were made following Clintons loss to Donald Trump, Rubellhadprepared for either outcome.

The work was completely conceived before the election, she said. I made the decision to have her positioned so shes stepping off the pedestal. It was an instinctive, formal decision, and now looking at it, its very biographical.

The piece, says Rubell, is meant asa portrait. My only goal was really to do some accurate portrait of her, and I feel like whether she wonor lost it was her fated outcome. If it was accurate enough, empathetic and open hearted enough, and political enough, the fate would be built into the piece.

As for the form of Rubells portrait, Clintons rainbow-hued collection of pantsuits are so popular theyve spawned internet memes, and even inspired the name of an invite-onlyFacebook group for supporters called Pantsuit Nation. She could have at any moment in her career locked into an outfit and the conversation would be over, she said. She made the decision to express herself in a very feminine way through color and what she wore.

On the wide-spectrum that is Clintons pantsuit rainbow, Rubellzeros-in on one of hermore boldly colored ensembles. The orange is the most insane, extreme color on the spectrum. The color youd never wear to rule the free world is orangeI love the inclination.

For some, the decision to serve Clinton s cookies out of giant pair of pants will certainly recall memories of Clintons1992 feminist credo, and the sweets-for-votes campaign that followed. For others, it will be a sore but colorful reminder ofa future that could have been. But whichever way the cookie crumbles, Rubell says, Its what never really happens in politics: a real look at a person who plays an outsized role in our lives.

Jennifer Rubell: Housewife is on view at Sargents Daughters January 18-February 16.

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WARREN, Mich. Thousands of people showed up in freezing temperatures on Sunday in Michigan where Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Americans to resist Republican efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, one of a number of rallies Democrats staged across the country to highlight opposition.

Labor unions were a strong presence at the rally in a parking lot at Macomb County Community College in the Detroit suburb of Warren, where some people carried signs including "Save our Health Care."

Lisa Bible, 45, of Bancroft, Michigan said she has an auto immune disease and high cholesterol. She says the existing law has been an answer to her and her husband's prayers, but she worries that if it's repealed her family may get stuck with her medical bills.

"I'm going to get really sick and my life will be at risk," she said.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to overturn and replace the Affordable Care Act and majority Republicans in Congress this week began the process of repealing it using a budget maneuver that requires a bare majority in the Senate.

"This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. It is time we got our national priorities right," Sanders told the Michigan rally.

The law has delivered health coverage to about 20 million people but is saddled with problems such as rapidly rising premiums and large co-payments.

Britt Waligorski, 31, a health care administrator for a dental practice, said she didn't get health insurance through work but has been covered through the health law for three years. While the premiums have gone up, she said she is concerned that services for women will be taken away if it is repealed.

"It's done a lot for women for their annual checkups, for mammograms -- women's health in general. If this gets repealed, we're going to go back to the old days when that's not covered," she said.

The health law has provided subsidies and Medicaid coverage for millions who don't get insurance at work. It has required insurers to cover certain services such as family planning and people who are already ill, and has placed limits on the amount that the sick and elderly can be billed for health care.

Sanders, a strong supporter of the law, made several visits to the state last year during the Michigan primary and defeated Hillary Clinton in the state. But in a major surprise, Michigan narrowly voted for Trump on Nov. 8, the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the state since 1988.

Rallies in some other cities in support of the health law also were well attended. Police estimated about 600 people showed up in Portland, Maine. Hundreds also attended a rally in Newark, New Jersey.

Republicans want to end the fines that enforce the requirement that many individuals buy coverage and that larger companies provide it to workers.

But they face internal disagreements on how to pay for any replacement and how to protect consumers and insurers during a long phase-in of an alternative.

Mark Heller, 45, a civil rights, immigration and labor attorney who drove to the Michigan event from Toledo, Ohio, said that stopping Republicans from repealing the law may take more than attending rallies.

"I think that it's going to take civil disobedience to turn this around because they have the votes in both the Senate and the House, and the president," he said.

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Legendary Democratic Californian Congresswoman Maxine Waters, whos boycotting Trumps inauguration on Friday, raised eyebrows on Monday whenshe devised an unusual rationaleforimpeaching the President-elect: calling Hillary Clinton Crooked Hillary and questioning her health.

Appearing on MSNBCs Hardball with Chris Mathews last night, Waterswas asked why some Democrats viewTrumps victory in the election as illegitimate.

If theres some sort of as you call it collusion, then what? Does that make Trump subject to impeachment? Just generally, tell me what you mean by the term? Matthewsasked.

The Congresswoman then responded that: If we discover that Donald Trump or his advocates played a role to help provide strategy if theyre the ones who came up with Crooked Hillary, if theyre the ones who came up with, shes ill, somethings wrong with her energy, and the way that he basically described her during the campaign I think that is something that would put the question squarely on the table whether or not he should be impeached.

Mathews didnt press theCalifornia Democrat on her logic, but askedwhether you can commit an impeachable offense before you take office?

Well, I think that at the point that investigations discover and confirm and can document any of that role in helping to strategize they had a role in attempting to determine the outcome, she answered.

That in many ways they used the information they got when they hacked into emails etc. if that was used against Hillary Clinton in some way, yes I think thats impeachable.

No doubtCongresswoman Waters will be delighted to learn that Trump indeed came up with Crooked Hillary nickname for Clinton. He unveiled the name at a rally in New York back in April last year, where he focused on Clintons ties to special interests.

On April 17th, Donald Trump used the nicknamefor the first time on his Twitter account, saying Crooked Hillary Clinton is spending a fortune on ads against me. I am the one person she doesnt want to run against. Will be such fun!

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