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Senate majority leader has said a couple of things that are of grave concern to democrats. one, he said that hes working in total coordination with the white house, which democrats see as undermining the integrity of the process. but hes also signalled that he wants to see a senate trial that is as quick and imminently forgettable as possible. so its the process that hes more or less envisioned would have house managers or prosecutors laying out the case, you would have a rebuttal from the white...

Open mind. look at the evidence, judge the facts and judge the law. when they make up their mind without the facts, without a presentation of both sides, then they are, i think, violating their oath of office and the oath for the impeachment. >> congressman ka brel la, quickly to you. >> that reminds us of two things, why people dont trust politicians and were at a record low in terms of trust and confidence. and number two, all of this is ultimately a political process. this is not a court of l...

Down more than just the impeachment process in 2019. theyre tearing down, shredding at the congress by delegitimizing this process. democrats at least are upholding the process and their responsibilities and willing to accept the political consequences, for some of them in very competitive districts. >> and worth noting that a lot of those editorial boards that we just showed are from urban centers more likely to lead democratic. congressman israel, last thoughts to you. >> i think theres an imp...

Perhaps house democrats could build a greater consensus in the country for their position if we heard from some of these other witnesses. but the position of house democrats is that they dont have time to go to court. they dont want to dedicate the time to doing that. so there are consequences to trying to rush through this process and we know speaker pelosi was sensitive about proceeding in this sense a few months ago. she really didnt want to do impeachment until she had no other choice. now h...

The remarks that he made over the weekend about how he has clearly made up his mind at this point. so theres a little bit of a trip down memory lane you can take not wujust with senator graham. i want to play for you what he said back during 1988 during the clinton impeachment and what hes saying now and i want to pause and show you something else. heres senator graham. >> members of the senate have said i understand everything there is about this case and i wont vote to impeach the president. p...

Would that be a smart strategy? it seems that speaker pelosi is not super into that idea. what do you make of it? >> well, in some ways its consistent with what the speaker has been saying that this process should be nonpartisan or bipartisan by including justin amash, who was a republican just until a few weeks ago. it could give the case a little bit more credibility, at least an air of nonpartisanship. but i certainly dont think that speaker pelosi will go that way. i think speaker pelosi wil...

In early 2020. right now were tracking potentially the second full week of january, hallie. >> so geoff, youve laid out sort of whats next in the house. weve got the judiciary committee report overnight because the house has to finish its work. so kristen, to you, i know from conversations with all of our sources over in and around the white house, they are preparing for a senate trial. is there any universe, are we living on any planet where the white house will say, john bolton, mick mulvaney,...

Present this in a way that makes it clear and understandable. thats really the task here. and thats why it seems to me so important that we get the documents and we get those witnesses who talked to the president who are in a position to know firsthand what was in his mind and to get the documents. remember the president took what i consider to be a sledgehammer to the constitution when he said to the house your impeachment inquiry isnt right, im going to judge whether its right or not as presid...

Many of the editorial boards calling to impeach the president. and i wonder for both of you if you can speak to the pressure that some of the lawmakers are facing. alyssa slotkin saying, i dont care if this costs me my seat. this is something i feel like i have to do. congressman jolly? >> so one of the pressures, the very real pressures -- its a conversation for another day, is on the funding of campaigns. van drew is probably looking at a $2 million to $3 million. where does that money come fr...