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Intimate to your caucus he was coordinating everything with the white house? >> no, not at all. nothing like this. >> joyce? joyce? >> im sorry, i couldnt hear you, ari. >> i just called on you to get your response. >> like norm i was gob smacked last night when i first saw this tape. it was very difficult to process that the leader of the senate went on national television and vowed to violate the oath of office that he was going to take when impeachment proceedings started. and as i have watch...

As we mentioned, tom daschle told dana bash yesterday during the clinton process he worked closely with the white house, not the president specifically. but mcconnell is not someone who does a lot of television interviews. why was it important for him to make that clear that hes working so closely with the white house. >> look. as a core responsibility of anybody in his position is to short of reassure not just his party but the nation as a whole whats going to happen wlrks its good news or bad ...

>> joyce? joyce? >> im sorry. i couldnt hear you, ari. >> i called on you for your response to the whole issue. >> yeah. i did and like norm, i was gaub smacked last night when i first saw this tape. it was very difficult to process that the leader of the senate went on national television and vowed to vilatd the oath of office. that he was going to take when impeachment proceedings started. as i have watched it over and over today, im even more disbelieving than i was the first time that i saw ...

>> joyce? joyce? >> im sorry, i couldnt hear you, ari. >> i just called on you to get your response. >> like norm i was gob smacked last night when i first saw this tape. it was very difficult to process that the leader of the senate went on national television and vowed to violate the oath of office that he was going to take when impeachment proceedings started. and as i have watched it over and over today im even more disbelieving than i was the first time that i saw it. of course we know that...

So a lot of people would suggest, well, this is sort of a waste of everybodys time and taxpayer money, and there are political consequences of that as well, arent there? >> well, the political consequences are unclear. its certainly animating for a portion of the republican base, but you also have to bear in mind that this impeachment process is considerably more popular according to public polling than either the clinton process or the nixon process if you go back to 1974. so you actually have ...

Keel as. he is an associate of a think tank. good to have you with us. president trump and his lawyers will not participate in wednesdays impeachment hearings, insisting the process at least is unfair. are they right or wrong on that point, and how much of this is about trying to avoid legitim e legitimizing the impeachment process? >> i think its entirely about trying to avoid legitimizing the impeachment process. theres been a calculation throughout while the narrative around the president cer...

Under the current circumstances, we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing. this had put the white house in a tough spot because of course administration officials and trump allies have complained throughout this process that they have perceived it as unfair. but sending a lawyer to those hearings on wednesday could have been lending an air of legitimacy to proceedings that trump and his allies have decried as a sham throughout this process. interestingly, cipollone did leave the...

Strategy. so the question of whether its legitimate is a little bit beside the point because all of this stems from a desire to throw up as many roadblocks to the process as possible. thats why they blocked off everyone from don mcgahn to john bolton from testifying. its why they have thrown up numerous lawsuits and legal challenges designed to delay and distract and hold on to the idea that assuming that the republicans stick together as a bloc, the entire thing will fall into the sort of predi...

Theres been a significant volume of legal scholarship about it. i mean as a matter of ordinary law rather than constitutional law, the process of seeking to use an official act in order to gain something of value is specifically prohibited by federal election law, and i think the attempt to withdraw military and political aid from ukraine in exchange for an investigation into a political rival would by most standards be considered a violation of that law. but thats not the fundamental question h...

Smaller than had the impeachment hearings not been going on because the proceeding in congress encouraged trump supporters to get out there and vote against the democratic nominee for governor. they still won in both of the states but that is why you hear -- part of the reason why democrats are eager to move this process and quickly and get it done as far before the 2020 election. >> and for democrats maybe in the rearview mirror by november 2020. >> right. >> margaret. >> ill be watching presid...