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The president. there key witness says that they havent actually impeach him. second of all, the democrats are delaying in the name of fairness. that argument gets weaker every week that goes by that the articles have been impeached. if you want some fairness how about accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanors and denying him at trial to defend himself. theyre going to lose the fairness argument that outs in the argument over. if you dont send the articles it undermines the case for ...

Lisa murkowski, the older statesmen that might be persuaded by an argument like this. its a potentially risky strategy to compel votes. if youre going to win people over, youre probably going to have to win them over on the fairness argument, a witness from one persons list, a witness from the other persons list. the president wants hunter biden and the whistle-blower. you could balance those out with mick mulvaney and john bolton, but do you want to enter that circus atmosphere? potentially. th...

Democracy -- >> greg: theyve backed themselves into a corner. >> juan: we have a constitution that says the president is not above the law, he is one of us. >> dana: i do want to make a point about the fairness argument. i want you to take a listen to sound bite number four, up in the control room. katie, i think this is the other thing is people watched all of this. the issue of fairness has come up over and over again for years doug collins earlier today. >> the minority leader in the senate w...

Doing. >> theal squabbling is not goin to really help the republicans. or frankly the democrats in this. we know how the vote is going to turn out hours from now and between now and then they will go back and forth. the fairness argument theyre emphasizing the republicans, the democrats need to say over and over again, the fairness argument is so bogus, article 2 of the impeachment, tells you all you need to know, obstruction of congress, the reason the republicans dont have witnesses, the reaso...

Parapa paraphrasing, we have everything together to present to skeptical public, that was months ago. how do you think things have advanced since then? >> i dont think things have advanced much at all. there is a reason in every other presidential impeachment, there has been formal and open process. that is because that was the right thing to do and what speaker albert and radeno and the chairman concluded at the start of the clinton impeachment. >> neil: sam, if resolution calls for deposition ...

He wants rudy giuliani to testify. democrats have been leary on that on republican terms and diane fine sti dianne feinstein seems to be behind this. what do you expect? rudy giuliani would he appear if. >> if he appears in the senate hes made clear what his terms would be and if that is the way the senate hearing goes then it would make it difficult, i think, especially picking up on the process argument and the fairness argument for the house then to come back and ask the kinds of questions th...

Clear again that this is being left to congress now because he didnt have the power to indict. but he was also not willing to say congress should impeach. i think thats consistent with his fairness argument that he made that if he wasnt going to say the president should have been indicted and not with standing the department policy, then he probably wasnt going to say the president should be impeached but rather that congress should consider what repercussions should follow, what course to take ...

One direction or the other. a lot of what he said was really to underscore what he had said in the report to dispel some of the confusion that bill barr tried to create. he certainly i think made it clear again that this is being left to congress now because he didnt have the power to indict. but he was also not willing to say congress should impeach. i think thats consistent with his fairness argument that he made that if he wasnt going to say the president should have been indicted and not wit...

And al fromme said something that we think is an interesting way to? democratic party. he said the party in the 80s is that they were all about fairness and not opportunity. and bill clinton pushed them to opportunity. and he said i see the democrats sblipg the fairness argument. when you talk about fairness, some voters say what are they taking away from me? when you talk opportunity, they think what are you doing to make me feel better? >> that flashback to the age of the dlc and that was how ...

Deductions and when we close loopholes they may not see it that way, sure. on average, everybody is going to benefit. average tax cuts for families for your viewers the median family in america is going to get $205 tax cut. thats rea205 -- $2,005 tax cut. thats real money. steve: some of those individuals with deductions with stuff might get a tax hike, but they would be few and far between according to what youve said. however, do you think ultimately the result of this tax cut bill is people i...