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What more do you need to request a witness? >> the senate will only begin a trial once nancy pelosi sends the articles of impeachment to the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. and she is withholding them until mcconnell and democratic leader chuck schumer reaches an agreement that pelosi thinks will result in a fair trial. >> assuming the senate does get the case, one moderate democrat is raising concerns. senator doug jones of alabama, says hes keeping an open mind to, quote, see if the do...

Hes up for re-election in november. hes weighing both of those things and trying to figure out the best path forward. i think there are a number of senators especially among democrats that want to get more information to connect the dots. there are some that do not want more information even as new emails have come out. they dont want to hear anything more. they dont want to hear from the witnesses. you do see these diverging paths as to what the trial may look like. its not clear yet theyre goi...

Ive been trying to read this. im trying to see if the dots get connected. if that is the case and i think its a serious matter, i think its an impeachable matter. but if those dots arent connected and there are other things consistent with innocence, i will go that way too. ive got to make sure that what i really want to see, though, is to fill in the gaps. >> all right. thats democratic senator doug jones of alabama raising the possibility that he could vote against convicting president trump. ...

Substantially changing the story. so are republicans right now. what were really seeing is that they are saying, hey, we already knew all of this, doesnt make any difference. but i think there are two things to look at. one is what we cant see in those emails. the redacted portions could be very interesting. and the other is the conversation that must have happened at some point during that hour and a half. what did the president say after the phone call and before those emails that were release...

That there was something a little bit amiss here. two subordinates of mr. duffey ended up quitting over what they saw as a violation of the law. one of the underlying stories that hasnt really gotten enough attention here in the rush to impeachment is that it is actually illegal for the president to not spend money that has been dually appropriated by congress. i think thats why you see these emails going back and forth and the sensitive nature of this. that they know theyre supposed to spend th...

>> so some important context here. jones obviously a democrat from a very red state. up for re-election in 2020. but he says there are gaps, that he still needs dots to be connected in terms of this impeachment inquiry. from your view, are there still gaps? >> not really. i mean, i think its pretty -- pretty clear to me what happened here. theres not a real, a lot of dispute about what happened factually. we really havent heard much from the president regarding an actual factual defense on the m...

For politics, to help president trumps re-election campaign. new evidence like that or new testimony of those who didnt come forward during the house proceeding, i think thats incredibly relevant. we cathedral hear that during a senate trial. >> it is also interesting in hearing what youre saying, you talk about kind of the narrative throughout the testimony in the house. now just this weekend we have one democratic senator say that the case coming from house democrats, from the house, has gaps....

Position is untenable and shes going to move it along. and the house will proceed in the senate. >> you think that shell eventually -- >> she will yield. theres no way she can hold this position. >> assuming the senate does get the case, one moderate democrat is raising concerns. senator doug jones of alabama, says hes keeping an open mind to, quote, see if the dots get connected. >> what i really want to see, though, is fill in the gaps. people can make up their mind with gaps in testimony. but...

Aides, particularly now today, this weekends news, that these emails have come out from one of his white house budget officials. 90 minutes after his call with the president of ukraine, ordering the budget office, the -- the pentagon, rather, to stop the payments and telling them, dont tell anyone. if it was such a perfect call, a great thing to do, why is this white house aide for president trump telling them to stop and telling them dont tell anyone that weve stopped the payments? we have to h...

His ukrainian counterpart back in july. shortly after that call, duffey sent an email telling officials, hold off sending aid. a democratic senator says he believes there are gaps in the impeachment case against the president. doug jones, one of the more moderate members of his party, says those gaps were caused by mr. trumps refusal to let officials testify. jones says hes keeping an open mind when the impeachment trial begins. >> i think these are really serious allegations. im trying to see...