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Meetings. she knows this is tough for her. shes a former cia officer. she said she was trained to make tough decisions and this is a tough decision politically and shes making it whatever the costs are to her politically. >> reporter: yeah. thats right, andrea. shes just finishing up a gaggle with reporters right now right behind me. she had a town hall. shes talking to reporters so shes making herself very available on the eve of this impeachment vote. just hours after she came out announcing h...

You saw last week republicans tried to suggest that you had what you called a coastal impeachment squad trying to take down president trump. thats in large part because you have the heads of these relevant committees all representing districts in california or new york. so we should found out who these house impeachment managers are hopefully sometime this week, andrea. >> theres a lot of diversity on both of these committees. youve had star performances from members from texas, from georgia and...

Of unity and holding on to each other. and, chuck, that is something that they show, no kidding, every day in the office. every day at school. as americans deal with each other, theyre together. i think they look at washington with a kind of dismay. why cant you guys do what we do? work it out. >> andrea, we, for sunday on "meet the press" we traveled to grand rapids. im a believer, as grand rapids goes, so goes the nation this coming cycle. as good a place as any to check in. exhaustion unified...

The institution. protect the respectability of the house of representatives and of the u.s. senate. ill tell you. i was very interested in what andrea said. the -- one of the things that strikes me most about this moment, as we journey now at a quicker pace towards impeachment which i suspect will be next wednesday, is that in past impeachments, chuck, there was a sense of gravity. a sense of big things are happening here. an epical event. watergate with richard nixon. i remember it. i was a col...

Today, and that is that a senate trial doesnt just have to not convict trump. it has to totally exonerate him. now, chuck, thats a high bar. total exoneration from the senate. and so when we think of the contours and the shape of what the senate and the white house wants the trial to be, if total exoneration is the goal, im not so sure you can do that in a short trial. although, they claim to be agnostic on that point. guys. >> well, as i said, hans, im -- im watching more than im listening. ill...

Hunter biden for the joe biden aspect of article one in the abuse of powere lines. >> youre right about that, andrea. a decided lack of self awareness on the part of matt gates. he was checked by congressman hank johnson given that gates has a record of a dui arrest. but for the most part, setting aside the few clearing exceptions, the proceeding that we have seen today has been mostly subdued and orderly given the way things can typically go. you heard the facts in evidence, theyre tryingct to ...

And showing not to call out names but showing the strength and the integrity of the committee? this is -- >> andrea, theyre players and playing in the script and we know what the script was going to be from day one. i wish we had a reasonable conversation about the facts and law. that is not how its going to play out. the republicans basically playing to the audience of one, president of the united states and the echo chamber. its an effort to smear everyone along the way and unfortunate because...

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They consider their many options in the iowa caucus and biden forcefully responding to it here. you can see a lot of our colleagues behind us trying to talk to that gentleman, we will join that scrum. we also expect to hear from vice president biden shortly. >> thises on a day when they goa big endorsement at least in the world of foreign policy, john kerry the former tomorrow knee and that he had what they had hoped to be talking about today as well. mike, go to it, thank you very much. and tha...

Like we are all required to do and listen to the evidence that if it does come over to the senate that we will listen to the evidence carefully and maybe a sobered a eed and reasoned ju. >> always a pleasure. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you, andrea. and nbcs mike mamali is in iowa and was with skroebd when that voter just got in his face a bit. describe what you saw. >> reporter: yeah, andrea, as you said, a moment in iowa. the whole point of this no malarkey tour for the biden c...