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>> like graham senators who served more than two decades ago also fretted about president clintons impeachment trial. then senate majority leader lott says there were concerns about publicly airing salacious details about mr. clintons affair with lewinsky. >> there were some who wanted to have witnesses on the floor of the senate, bill clinton, monica lewinsky and i said no were not going to demean this institution to that degree. >> thats why lott and then senate minority leader conducted three...

Demeanor this institution to that degree. >> thats why lott and then minority leader daschle forged a pact and conducted three witness interviews all in private instead of calling them to testify publicly. its unclear if they can afford such in president trumps trial in a toxic environment. >> if they have witnesses on the floor, it takes on a context that could be -- could be harmful. its bad enough and if this turns into an absolute, you know, mud slinging process, it will make things worse. >...

Lawyer, i would say never testify, never tweet. im taking away your smartphone. sit in the corner. wait out your presidency until 2020. but for the audiences at home, read the letter as if saddam hussein or gadhafi would have written that letter. have that voice in your head or biff tannen from back to the future part 2. is the voice of a narcissist, a man who thinks hes the chosen leader. a person who thinks he has the absolute right to do whatever he can. and hes lashing out against everyone. ...

Rage rant of an authoritarian. >> right. i mean for the -- >> i guess we see why his lawyers never want him to testify. >> yeah. i mean honestly if you were his lawyer, i would say never testify, never tweet. im taking away your smartphone. sit in the corner. wait out your presidency until 2020. but for the audiences at home, read the letter as if saddam hussein or gadhafi would have written that letter. just have their voice in your head. or have biff tannen from "back to the future part 2." it...

About this. do you believe that the fis court should be eliminated as andrew napolitano -- the judge has also advised on this show. >> yeah. we need a process, okay. so im not going to speak in absolutes. but i will say that the way the courts conducted themselves is totally inappropriate. they ignored clear evidence that we presented to them that, remember, they had this. the american people didnt have it. we had seen it. they had it. they did absolutely nothing about it. so, they have left rea...

Confirmation from the supreme court that, yes, in fact, you cant just tell a former senior aide, yeah, no, you cant go testify, you can ignore a congressional subpoena, or if you can impose what is one of these articles of impeachment, an absolute, unequivocal we wont give you a thing congress because we dont want to, that not even actually saying heres our privilege. we just dont want to. thats the kind of thing that will continue to be an issue. and as wevee seen and as we know, adam schiff ha...

Questioning staff and even had a staff witness get up from the witness stand down there, walk over to this deus and begin questioning another staff witness. at the same time, republicans on this committee were denied the absolute right to have a minority hearing day which is guaranteed by this committees own rules. the chairman of this committee and the majority have seen fit to abuse this committees rules and ignore the rights of the minority with impunity. the majority should keep in mind that...

Powers of his public office to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second article charges that the president obstructed the congressional investigation into his conduct. other presidents have resisted congressional oversight but president trumps stonewall was complete, absolute, and without precedent in american history. taken together, the two articles charged president trump with placing his private, political interests above our national security, above our free ...

And executive branches. but heres the important thing. they said in that case theres not an absolute and thats a quote from the court. the other side of that is true as well. congress doesnt have an absolute unqualified authority to demand evidence from the president either, thats the whole reason that you have to go to the third branch of the judiciary. this is a legitimate claim of privilege. its a legitimate issue that the courts could decide. its a case of first impression as my colleague kn...

Privilege, which is something that could go to the courts. hes made up something called absolute immunity. never before in the history of our country have we had a president who said you cant talk to anyone in my administration. you cant see any documents. when we had hope hicks come before -- his -- his communication secretary -- come before this committee several months ago, she was subject to a claim of absolute immunity. she wasnt allowed to testify to anything that had happened that shed se...