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Vote against him. lets just be clear here. do any of us really believe that 20 whole republicans would have the guts to follow the constitution and risk turning on their boss? the man that theyve treated like hes their king for three years? and i mean even the ones who are serious enough people to know hes guilty, they are lets face it, all scared of trump for whatever reason. so the question is should we think about peechl as more than removal. should we see it as a jum against him but also aga...

What is this you speak of? hold on, let me get my constitution that ive been, like, shoving up peoples noses for the past 20 years. thats what -- im carrying the constitution of the united states. i believe what it says. certainly the constitutions out. by the way, mitt romney, heres a great example. the president of the united states says article two gives me the power to do whatever i want to do, thats actually -- thats what putin would say. thats what erdogan would say. >> im calling ann. >> ...

More murky when it comes to public opinion in politics. >> as a legal matter, jeffrey toobin does it matter? >> you know, the quote that everyone, all the law professors hate but is a really useful quote about impeachment comes from gerald ford when he was the house minority leader in 1960s and led an unsuccessful attempt to convict, to impeach william o. douglas, a supreme court justice at the time and ford said, an impeachable offense is what majority of the house of representatives thinks is ...

Including myself. maybe the hearings arent where the jump to. well see. i think its a little too early to predict. >> one thing we havent heard from a lot of republican lawmakers is kind of the position taken by their witness jonathan turley who has said that the call was far from perfect and has suggested that maybe more evidence would be damaging for trump. do you think when and if this goes to the senate that there are republican senators who would like a third option, who would like there to...

What matters here is not the debate back and forth about whether adam schiff should testify or whether the republicans were somehow surprised by the witnesses. what matters here are the facts and the law. and again, as a prosecutor, what im going to argue to the jury is facts and law. the testimony over the past couple of weeks corroborates what the president himself said in the july 25th conversation. those dedicated patriots and professionals like tailer and hill who came before the committee....

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 either put an...

Clinton in 98 and 99. the house needs 218 out of 435 votes. thats just over 50% in order to impeach. if that happens, onto the senate. the senate gets the sole power to try all impeachments. now, weve had two prior senate trials in our history. 1868 andrew johnson was acquitted. noteworthy there. every democratic senator there voted to acquit. not a single one flipped over and voted against bill clinton in 1999. we actually have had an impeachment trial more recently though officials can be impe...

Fundamentally sold himself out or he was always this way. i do think theres a risk for republicans in the senate. you vote to acquit, you move on. everybody forgets about it. but the question is, are they going to be moving from defenders and enablers to actual coconspirators? are they going to continue to aid and abet these bizarre conspiracy theories and actually serve to advance the propaganda message of vladimir putin? do you really want to become part of this? do you want to become so assoc...

Behavioral going forward. >> theyre tired of it too, but lets be honest, they like the by-product of it. >> i understand, i understand. but the votes they will make are saying, you know what, were okay with that. were not going to do anything to stop it, and theres an immediate short-term political impact with that, but theres also just this long-term question of what it means for the executive, what it means for the presidency, if the president of the united states can all of a sudden do this. ...

Dropoff? viewership from last week. i think the real thing to look at here, you had some of this polling on earlier in the hour, how set people are in their ways. people see this as a prefixed conclusion, that the democrats are going to impeach, the republicans are going to acquit, and were going to be right back where we started. a really big issue that we write a lot about on axios, the way people can live in filter bubbles, depending on the television shows you watch and the twitter followers...