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With a senate subpoena if called as a witness saying testifying would only create a diversion from the real issues at hand. also in iowa senator amy klobuchar who held four events in the state today, completed her goal of visiting all the hawkeye states 99 counties before the end of the year. >> if you believe a president sets more than policy for this country but also the tone, the civility for this country, and if you believe a president should not just stand her ground, yes, but also seek com...

And i hate when people start talking about how black people poor blacks do not deserve some kind of shot through equal opportunity or something like that. how many whiteties are sitting there and getting a shot at college or getting a shot at a better education because they have so much more in there hasnt been inherent racism. we have to right the wrongs. im not ultraliberal. i voted for republican and -- pa tacky. and giuliani. i voted for republicans. and friends with many republicans. there ...

Manhattan office idiots and worse for investigating him. joining us, dana bash, joe lockhart, and cnn global affairs analyst bianna golodryga. great to have you all on this christmas eve. lets start with impeachment and then move to rudy. >> im going to have a lozenge while we talk. >> if you had lozenge on your bingo card. have another cup of coffee. joe, who would have thought that wed be looking back on the clinton impeachment as a gold standard of civility and bipartisanship. but that is whe...

Apology. dont want an apology. i dont want a campaign to begin around that. what i do want is people to take a deep breath and think going forward, that their words have consequences that they can hurt. and how do we bring more civility back to our political environment? not just the political environment. the rhetoric in this country has turned so ugly, vitriolic and bullying, it is not okay. social maid yaw is destroying our sense of community in this country. chris: well it is interesting you...

I dont want a campaign to begin around that. what i do want is people to take a deep breath and think going forward, that their words have consequences that they can hurt. and how do we bring more civility back to our political environment? not just the political environment. the rhetoric in this country has turned so ugly, vitriolic and bullying, it is not okay. social maid yaw is destroying our sense of community in this country. chris: well it is interesting you said that because this week yo...

I dont want a campaign to begin around that. what i do want is people to take a deep breath and think going forward, that their words have consequences that they can hurt. and how do we bring more civility back to our political environment? not just the political environment. the rhetoric in this country has turned so ugly, vitriolic and bullying, it is not okay. social maid yaw is destroying our sense of community in this country. chris: well it is interesting you said that because this week yo...

>> one thing he could learn is that clinton made a big effort, and you remember this very well because you were covering him the whole time, clinton made this big effort to come part meant lies, americans dont have to always be reminded of it. and you saw that discipline in his state of the union address which did take place during that impeachment trial. the address was an hour and 18 minutes long. he never mentioned impeachment or trial, and he actually calls on the speaker for bipartisanship ...

Get me fired right now. and instead of figuring out if president trump committed impeachable offenses, instead theres bickering and debates. right now there is little or no civility at the highest level of government. you have an article entitled "civility is overrated" where achieving it could cause greater harm. explain that, why is civility wrong? >> thank you for having me and thank you for saying that. my piece distinguishes between, you know, the civility that grows out of genuine mutual r...

Civility to silence its critics, i think that is not particularly legitimate. ill give you an example. a couple of years ago, sarah sanders went into a restaurant and those people, because they did not agree with the administrations position on lgbt rights said they didnt feel comfortable serving her and she walked out. thats a protest, completely civil. in a precountry you dont have to respect the representatives of the state. the representatives of the state have to respect you, but you dont h...

You can see that with the president who during the 2018 midterms went from demonizing his opponents to saying we need to end the politics of personal destruction and saying what he meant by that is the press should stop reporting on the things he says and being mean about it. i want to distinguish between respect and what i think is an attitude you can say what you want but other people cant criticize you for it. i think its also important to remember that democracy is a system for managing conf...