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Fair to say? >> yeah. well, i mean, remember january 6th at 1:00 p.m. was not som this was the moment when the constitution calls for congress to meet in jointlle votes. and the whole plot at this point, donald trump having failed to coerce republican legislatures to overturn election results and having failed to convince election officials like brad raffensperger in georgia to fabricate election results, now was focused on mike pence. and what they wanted to do was to get pence to declare unila...

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Democrats at all. i think that, frankly, you know, its becoming a liability for mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell getting on television and deciding to do the rounds and saying that instead of holding a fair trial, which the constitution calls for, that instead hes going to be in lockstep with this white house. thats problematic. and i think that the numbers, the polling that were seeing, the 55% of americans wanting the president to be impeached and to be removed from office, i think that those ...

Down. gabbert announced shes not running for reelection. >> one of the candidates stand on pelosi withholding those articles of impeachment? >> thats a big question how long shell hold onto articles. senators, book klobuchar all expected to be on the campaign trail. michael bloomberg hes pushing for a trial as soon as possible. listen. >> i think they should have a trial. whatever the evidence is, thats what the constitution calls for. i think we deserve nothing less. >> senator cory booker twee...

Articles. >> reporter: now despite the acrimony today nancy pelosi extended an invitation to president trump to deliver the state of the union before congress on february 4th, the president has accepted. >> sara murray, thank you so much. and lets talk about what she wrote in the invitation. in the great wisdom our founders crafted a constitution based on a system of separation of powers, threeco equal branches acting as checks on each other to ensure the balance of power the constitution call...

For more on that, i am joined by aaron blake, senior political reporter at "the washington post." we start with the idea mitch mcconnell, echoed by lindsey graham, says we dont need witnesses. we dont really need testimony. we dont really need to read transcripts. were in lockstep, and mitch mcconnell actually said this on tv on fox news, were in lockstep with the white house about how were moving forward with this. this stands in contrast to the idea that the constitution calls for the senate t...

When barack obama decided to unilaterally suspend the senate so he could appoint some people to the national labor relations board. the supreme court ruled against him that he violated the constitution. could republicans have impeached him for abuse of power? this is a standard were setting going forward. paul: democrats just want to get this over. >> yeah. yeah. we are lowering the bar, thats a very important point to make hearing were lowering the bar. if resisting subpoenas from congress is a...

Unilaterally suspend the senate so he could appoint some people to the national labor relations board. the supreme court ruled against him that he violated the constitution. could republicans have impeached him for abuse of power? this is a standard were setting going forward. paul: democrats just want to get this over. >> yeah. yeah. we are lowering the bar, thats a very important point to make hearing were lowering the bar. if resisting subpoenas from congress is an impeachable offense, most m...

Coordinating with defense counsel doesnt make any sense. >> for mcconnell to be basically saying that the president is going to set the terms of the trial, that the president is going to get to decide the timetable and who is called? our founders would be rolling over in their grave. >> he should really take himself out of this kind of coordination with the white house. meeting with lawyers. he is undermining the credibility of the senate not just himself. ed: basically the majority leader of th...