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Setting on television because they know it will get back to the president. the president does believe that giuliani is serving him well based on our reporting right now. so people dont want to cross the president, it seems, or get on the wrong side of him. but there is a real concern that giuliani and his interviews, the things that hes talking about, what hes doing in ukraine are not necessarily helpful to the presidents cause. that said, theres not a lot of incentive for the president to make ...

Like susan collins, gardner, and mcsally, these folks have a lot of people in their states who dont love trump. they might be conservative. they might be independents. and its directed at them. the question is will they say to their senators, you just cant go with mcconnell on this. if you do youre going to get punished not in a primary but in a general election where you need the independents and you need the swing voters to hang on to your seats. so thats directed mostly at people in those sta...

They might be conservative. they might be independents. and its directed at them. the question is will they say to their senators you just cant go with mcconnell on this? if you do youre going to get punished not in a primary but in a general election where you need the independents and you need the swing voters to hang on to your seats. so thats directed mostly at people in those states. so people watching here from arizona, colorado, maine. >> theyre the ones that are expected to -- >> theyre ...

Speaker of the house nancy pelosi, do democrats have any leverage that could change that dynamic? ? >> new information can always change dynamics, but i think part of what is going on here is the democrats want to put republicans on record. this is a pretty weight any moment, the charges against the president are extremely seergs and sort of, you know, actual treason, what he has been accused of is as serious as it gets. so i think they want to make sure there is a vote on this at some point. th...

Dynamic than, say, the kavanaugh nomination, there are similarities in that one of the calculus -- calculi? >> calculations. >> its monday. >> its monday of a holiday week. >> that the moderate democrats and the moderate republicans have to make going into this if theyre going to put the politics in the mix of their decision is if i vote against my party, am i going to anger my base so much that even if i get some republicans and independents, it wont make up for it. thats true for doug jones. i...

President? it will be very difficult for them to survive a reelection. >> 20 years ago we had a similar dynamic in terms of calling witnesses or not calling witnesses to the senate impeachment trial of bill clinton. a couple things happened. the senate voted behind closed doors on whether to call witnesses. they argued over what format it should be. what we had was videotaped testimony taken behind closed doors of monica lewinsky, of clintons friend jordan and blumenthal, the white house aide. b...

>> its like a scene from phantom of the opera masquerade. politicians know how to masquerade. what do i need to do to get elected and now im in washington, heres what i make of it. the dynamic had to be so powerful within that caucus, the democratic caucus, the pressure, are you on the side, you can imagine the rhetoric, the constitution? do you want this to be a monarchy? do you want to bring back king george the third? do you like this president? i can imagine the conversation got to be such t...

>> its like a scene from phantom of the opera masquerade. politicians know how to masquerade. what do i need to do to get elected and now im in washington, heres what i make of it. the dynamic had to be so powerful within that caucus, the democratic caucus, the pressure, are you on the side, you can imagine the rhetoric, the constitution? do you want this to be a monarchy? do you want to bring back king george the third? do you like this president? i can imagine the conversation got to be such t...

Sanders. bernie sanders scores fairly well with this group of voters, and because another dynamic in them is theyre not fully happy with the system as it was. is it possible that sanders might be the best person to take trump voters away from trump? >> well, i think it depends where youre talking about. look, i think this race is going to be a race to the bottom at any extent where people are holding their nose. a lot of swing voters and picking the lesser of two evils. what the president has go...

Holiday break. that is that they can continue to talk about fairness and process on the trial and not engage in the substance. officials give you very little indication that theyd be having to produce the kind of documents that chuck schumer is asking for. we have a standoff, we have a stalemate and i think one peril for the white house in all of this and i think we see this in the e-mails, but the longer this goes on, theres a chance the dynamic of this entire process now that the president has...