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The court has found that it is a legitimate process. so, it really is an affront to checks and balances. and there you really would hope that there are enough senators who would say thats a bridge too far. >> and its an argument that you would hope a republican would make. nancy pelosi put her sides argument yesterday in a frame of history, republicans playing for the political, not even minute, the political second. its amazing. thank you so much for spending time with us. garrett haake, my fri...

Knows with regards to the presidents tick tock of the day, and exactly what hes going to be doing while this vote takes place. >> we know that president trump cant let anything go unanswered, so we are sure to receive a tweet or some sort of response from him on the vote today, but whats interesting according to our reporting is that the president is really trying to roll out this counter programming to impeachment. hell be joined by vice president mike pence in battle creek, michigan, later ton...

Pick things out of it whether its everyone will kind of come away from it with what they would like to see in it. as he did with the ig report, and well see that happen here. so it almost is a foregone conclusion. not that it doesnt matter whats in the report, but it doesnt in the sense that the presidents going to say what he wants to aboutto it and hes gog to find things in there that suit his narrative, and his base is, again, primed to continue to hear this sort of narrative, in which the pr...

Means and the bar for impeachment and the president would be -- i mean, listen. a lot of peoples estimation republicans are split on this. there are plenty of republicans who want a more aggressive and robust counter programming to democrats and those who just want to ignore it. i think well see the wisdom in the ignore it approach next week. it is not ambassador sondland, its academics with nothing to do with this case and figure to leave it to the republican tons committee to defend the presid...

The witness to testify and they essentially equated it to somewhat, there is a fire somewhere and someone calls 911, and obviously, someone comes up, the fire department comes and puts out the fire, but the person who called 911 isnt necessarily the cause of the fire. they just alerted to the issue. so it is not clear what new information they are going to get out of the whistle-blower. but they appear to think that they can somehow get, you know, put a new perspective on this. >> president trum...

Direct information about what the president was thinking or any direct conversations with the president on this, at least thats the hope out of this. but of course the white house, they have a whole day of counter programming scheduled to try to counter this. as you mentioned the turkish president is there, which any other day would probably be the lead headline story given the controversy around this visit and turkey and congress working on sanctions. there is a possibility members from the sen...

This was things that they had heard is what the republicans on this committee are going to push for. so to say these witnesses had no direct information about what the president was thinking or any direct conversations with the president on this, at least thats the hope out of this. but of course the white house, they have a whole day of counter programming scheduled to try to counter this. as you mentioned the turkish president is there, which any other day would probably be the lead headline s...

The transcripts. you see the tweet right there. he also says republicans should put out their own transcripts. the thing here is that there are 47 republicans on the respective committees that have been doing this closed-door interviews and we know based on reading the transcripts that have come out so far, that republicans have had equal time to question the witnesses and theyve done that. and youve not heard a single republican on the committees suggest that somehow the transcripts on their ow...

There on behalf of soldiers and vets. he decides not to partake in a debate to raise money for veterans. corey lewandowski, not part of the trump foundation, gets control of the funds and uses it for campaign purposes. >> i think it was fort dodge, iowa, he has an event for veterans. i was there. he came on stage with one of the giant novelty checks, counter programming. >> right. >> it was because he didnt want to participate in the debate. i think it was before that actually, or im confusing m...

Wont fly in the senate. >> tough to hear senator graham there, but hes talking about rudy giuliani and wanting to subpoena him for different reasons than why house democrats want to hear from rudy giuliani, no? >> reporter: right. i think grahams point is to provide some counter-programming to the actions that are being undertaken on the house side. its still not clear that even if rudy giuliani were to show up for some testimony on the senate side, whether that would be public. so were certainl...