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Courts are going to do, what additional information is coming out. thats why senator schumers request for additional witnesses is so important. we saw what happened in watergate when the smoking gun tape came out afterwards. >> jamil, do you agree? >> look, i think the congresswoman is right that of course new evidence might come out, it might be probative to the impeachment inquiry. it might result in new articles of impeachment. the problem, of course, is while thats good as a legal matter and...

Theirs. so two separate questions to you. brendan, in your opinion as someone who consults and talks about republicans and strategizes, is rudy giuliani doing a good job here serving the president of the united states at what i think anyone would call a critical moment in history? >> of course not. i think the white house would love rudy giuliani to just go away. everything that he has done since all of this started is outrageous. going back to the fact that hes actually now still going over to ...

Your show, went to the senate floor and basically laughed at nancy pelosi for this idea that she was going to withhold them. he has all the cards here. he was flexing his muscle. you talked earlier about how some of the vulnerable republican senators are important here. susan collins of maine probably the most vulnerable one, came out right after chuck schumer talked about requiring witnesses up front and said i dont like this. if mitch mcconnell has susan collins on his side, then he has everyt...

Because hes not expected to get that as lindsay graham has made quite clear, the president has to be able to and wants to be able to distance himself from that and say i wanted those people but it was up to the senate and the senate voted not to give them to me. i thought they should have testified. >> it is a pleasure to have you all on this christmas eve. thank you for being with us and rolling with some of this stuff. i want to bring in now chris lewis, senior white house aid to president oba...

Is aen itting threat. how can you justify any delay? >> i dont think anyone is suggesting there is going to be any unnecessary delay. the speaker said at the press conference that she wants to see what the process is so she can make an informed judgment about who will best mag thnage that. look, lets focus on the important thing here. this is a serious action by the house. we have accused the president of two very serious crimes. >> uh-huh. >> the senate has a responsibility to try the president...

When your day job is representative and you are not representing the will of the people. the poles have gone against a protracted impeachment proceeding in the house. i think that the meandering process actually hurt them. the substance is never on their side, but the way they tried to present it never really captured the public and made it sticky enough to stick around and follow the procedures so i think the senate trial would be a more familiar and more fair process but of course she wants to...

People. the polls have gone against a protracted impeachment proceeding in the house. i think that the meandering process actually hurt them. the substance is never on their side, but the way they tried to present it never really captured the public and made it sticky enough to stick around and follow the procedures so i think the senateo trial would be a me familiar and more fair process but of course she wants to wait because she will never mollify all of the haters and detractors. >> laura: d...

The republicans are in complete control. arguably, its potentially possible that they could make a motion dismiss in the first few minutes of this senate trial. thats how much power the republicans have, once it gets to the senate. they create the rules. in all likelihood, what we saw in the clinton impeachment trial was that the, you saw senator kennedy, and senator trent lott get together and hammer out the rules. i expect it to be a lot more contentious this time around. and i think when we g...

Again, its going to start in a few minutes again and well dip in and out of it as the news warrant, but what i kept hearing over and over again it seemed, the republicans were arguing that they wanted to make this a fair process. they tried to make this a fair process and they harken ed back to other investigations and the democrats didnt want to do what they were supposed to do. which is go to the courts to litigate whether or not the white house needs to cooperate. the obama administration had...

>> live from americas news headquarters, white house has responded to house judiciary committee, saying it will not participate in the type o impeat hearing on wednesday, in a letter sent to nadler, white house said that it cannot participate in part because it remains unclear whether the judiciary committee will afford the presidents fair process. a council to president did not rule out possibility of white house attending later hearings, saying they would respond to those requests at a later d...