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As the president spends the holidays at mar-a-lago at his resort there, he is growing increasingly agitated over the uncertainty surrounding a senate impeachment trial. this as he faces two merge decisions. first, who should serve on his defense team, and second, what strategy should that team put forward? cnn political commentators alan stewart and the former for ted cruz. the president has spent a lot of his vacation firing off tweets at house speaker nancy pelosi, and im wondering, what does ...

Surprise challenge. join you go, cnn commentators, charley lent and scott collins. republicans both, left i suggest otherwise. great to have you here. so for political junkies watching this, you know, extreme standoff between mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi, i think has been like, jedi warfare of some kind. scott, who do you think is going to win this one? >> well, look, i think i outcome is not in question. whenever pelosi sends the articles of impeachment to the senate, the president is going...

Process, hopefully in a fairly short period of time in total coordination with the white house counsels office and the people who are representing the president in the well of the senate. >> all right. those remarks leading republican senator of murkowski of alaska to break ranks with her party saying shes disturbed to hear mitch mcconnell say that ahead of the senate trial. joining me now are cnn political commentators scott jennings and alice stewart, former communications director for ted cru...

Koent commentators and is reconciliation possible or desiebl when fundamental matters of principle seem to be at stake in more and more i hear people expressing doubt about compromise and reconciliation in the age of trump. thats part of what makes politics so poe tent atent and s dangerous. its not the art of the deal but frankly our death. america doesnt feel to me like a country hided toward a second civil war. turn off the television. amen. go to a ball game. listen to some music. and the di...

With that. i think -- i think that was an anomaly, historical anomaly that people are going to be shaking their heads about 30 years going to wait a second, how did that happen? and yet you see a party, my old party, you see a church, my current church, the evangelicals, and you see commentators who support donald trump saying the most hateful things because they think thats the future. they think thats -- i saw two things pred yesterdyesterday, i twitter briefly because i knew ways going to do ...

>> reporter: last night late, around 10:00 at night east coast time when the president, after a day of staying silent on twitter and quiet on the impeachment fronts, issued a new attack against house speaker nancy pelosi and the democrats, following that up with a series of them this morning. not a surprise from president trump. i can tell you what he said, the do-nothing democrats in his words wanted to rush everything through to the senate because president trump is a threat to national securi...

Two republicans. charlie dent and scott jennings. both are cnn political commentators. scott, as you hear those comments from kevin mccarthy, what do you think? is it possible he actually believes the words that are coming out of his mouth or is he trying to get a message to the president that he is loyal? >> well, i think a lot of republicans after reading the horowitz report and the rebuke that the fisa report, a lot of republicans are concerned about the way the issues regarding the trump cam...

Horowitz, heres the fbi. they broke into president trump at the time candidate trumps campaign spied on him and then covered it up. it is a modern day watergate. they broke into his campaign by bringing people into it. they have been trying to cover it up for the whole time. >> all right. not so fast. facts first. the justice departments own inspector general report that mccarthy is referring to specifically debunks that conspiracy theory finding no evidence whatsoever of spying. but what does t...

And then they covered it up. it is a modern-day watergate. they broke into his campaign by bringing people into it. they have been trying to cover it up for the whole time. >> mccarthy then tweeted out that video clip, and heres whats really matters. we have to point this out. what he says isnt true. if in fact you did read that report, you would know the department of justice inspector general said the exact opposite, that there was no political bias involved in the fbi investigation of the tru...

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