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Another hour but were out of time. My thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. Mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. Lchl exactly a year after the president ial election, todays been another hectic day in the Nations Capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. House backed an Impeachment Inquiry into the president and historic symbolic acti...

February? adrian, if you -- what would you do? >> we talked about this on the show before. yes. you can have a trial. its not the most ideal situation -- currently running exactly because you can be everywhere and the senators have to be back in washington on the trial. you can have surrogates on the campaign. its going to be interesting to see the creative surrogates that are put out there. >> let me argue the opposite. i dont think the story at this point is that there is stonewalling. i think...

It that the disputes are not republican and democrat its article one versus article two. congress is article one. is mitch mcconnell the same as our president, criticizing him but more importantly is holding the session? senate in pro form or session during the recess. the president cannot make a recess appointment and run the senate. youre seeing these institution that i think are wonderful. >> i want to thank everybody more news ahead.

Forma, but still they do. i think the rubber will hit the road coming up and it will be on russia. the president has made sounds about firing attorney general sessions. hes made inklings about firing the special counsel, mr. mueller. if he does that, that will be the gut check for congressional -- its fine for senator flake to write a book and i hope everybody reads it but im not that interested. im interested in checking his power as a chief executive. article one versus article two, not r vers...

Russia. the president has made sounds about firing attorney general sessions. hes made inklings about firing the special counsel, mr. mueller. if he does that, that will be the gut check for congressional -- its fine for senator flake to write a book and i hope everybody reads it but im not that interested. im interested in checking his power as a chief executive. article one versus article two, not r versus d. >> if he fires robert mueller, the ultimate battle will be on between the establishme...