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All know is going to happen, thats the house next week, assuming the vote takes place next week, will impeach the president of the united states and look at whats going to happen on the hill in the senate. if you are any doubt, and i dont think you do, that the democrats will vote to impeach the president. but sean hannity said there will be no difference between the presidents position and our position in how to handle this. so theyre coordinating with the white house to ensure they get the vot...

What this is going to look like. it could look like a lot of things absent that, i think republicans see value in just getting this over fast. i think there has been a decision made against a vote to dismiss i think that a number of senators believe they have to do something to reflect theyre voting on it but its going to go quickly possibly with no witnesses. >> could i add to that? decision looks like the majority leader mitch mcconnell has made a decision not to just dismiss. so the reason th...

President, what the republicans were arguing this evening was that the process has been unfair. the whole point of a fair process is to rule out both sides to present their case. we have not heard a substance of defense of what the president had done other than he did it, get over it. so they really have little they can argue here. i think defending the president in this process is going to be a difficult task. what it comes down is straight loyalty for these republican senato senators. >> phil ...

Point. it appears that all the republican senators are likely to vote to acquit president trump, his removal from office does not appear to be in the offing, and the white house is confident about that assessment. what youre hearing from president trump is that he wants there to be a big trial, a big show of force in defending him. hes thinking much more about theg public relations aspect o this, how will it frame the re-election campaign ahead through november, and he wants to take advantage of...

The president in this process is going to be a very difficult task. and what ita comes down to is just straight partisan loyalty for these republicanai senators >> phil rucker, theres no gentle or dignified way to ask this. does the white house feel that they have republicans in the senate willing to be as nakedly aggressive and sometimes fact-neutral as some of the republicans onso the house have provenan to be? >> the answer, brian, is a little bit complicated. the vote in the senate seems pre...

9:00, 10:00, 11:00 neighborhood. but i think they are going to resume tomorrow. they want to be out of town because there is a congressional delegation going to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of theth bulge so they have priorities beyond impeachment. i just h want to make one point thats a little bit different, a little bit contrary to what everyone is saying and hopefully i can sustain this point. but the idea that this is about the next election is a complicated argument to make becau...

To become the third. and i think what well see is if this plays out as we have described it, where the house impeaches and senates votes to acquit. the president will portray this as a completely partisan effort that didnt have the support of the majority of people. and that a senate victory hell say it a win for him. democrats will still say that they had to do this. there was misconduct. and we wont know really until i think election day what the american people have to say about it. >> cnn le...

Officially. all it requires is a majority vote. various public officials have been b censured over the year, but only andrew jackson has ever been censured, so it is a significant step if it happens. there are political considerations both ways. are the republicans likely to censure the president of the united states? no, but it may give an off ramp if some members need to say it was bad, maybe not impeachable, but bad. for democrats it may feel like a hollow prize if the senate acquits. on the ...

Would just basically end the trial and go ahead and have a vote, and it would be over. that would of course mean that you had 51 votes to proceed. so i could see a scenario where some people would continue to say, anderson, that they would want to have a long trial and call witnesses. but if at some point after both presentations, 51 votes exist to go to final jeopardy, they might just do it. that could take as few as ten days. it might take a few more. but in a best case, short-term scenario, i...

>> i did. i couldnt believe there was a situation where that long shot happened, where he would be freed. >> reporter: juror brian christenson said he and his fellow jurors had no choice but to set conrad free. >> i believe that we all pretty much felt that he probably did it. >> reporter: but you voted to acquit. >> we voted to acquit. >> reporter: because you had reasonable doubt? >> we had reasonable doubt. >> reporter: whether you believe mr. truman is innocent or not, those measurements eit...