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If you want to know how the president feels about that, well, he sent an absolutely unhinged, deranged six-page tweet-like letter to nancy pelosi today in which he said, among a variety of other things, quote, you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word impeachment, and, quote, more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. fact check, not true. republicans have been trying a variety of tactics throughout this entire progression towards impeachment, primari...

Because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it. its not the senates job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty. that would hardly be impartial justice. >> interesting that mcconnell would bring up impartial justice, considering that mcconnell also responded today to criticism that by already announcing on trump tv he is coordinating with the white house in the impeachment trial, he has already abdicated his constitutional role which requires him to literally...

Trump. >> there was this -- the inspector generals report that came out about the origins of the investigation into the president, the counterintelligence investigation started in 2016. you were still in the obama administration at that point. and two aspects of that. one, sort of knocking down the most farfetched conspiracy theories about essentially a partisan whuitch hunt inside th deep state to get the president of the united states. but the other expressing real critiques, concrete ones of ...

There were numerous warnings he had not to use this information and subsequent renewals submitted by comey omitted that steeles primary sub source, the sub source, the only source not even a source, he described his own evidence as the rumors, hearsay, speculation a crude bar joke. and admitted the sub source even questions steeles credibility. wow. and he omitted steele doubted the credibility of the sub. get this, comeys fisa renewal straight up light about carter page and his connection to th...

>> total confidence that the fisa process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. i think the notion fisa was abused as nonsense. >> sean: nonsense yet another like comey knew it was garbage and unverifiable rumors and speculation and he was warned multiple times. and even christopher steele under oath when he heard this he should have gone back. i have no idea of any of it is true. that is why he repeatedly denied that it was used w...

Internal watchdog determined the fbi was justified opening the investigation and found there was no bias. but the inspector-general found serious errors in the way the probe was conducted. >> significant errors in the fisa process. and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. >> yeah. hes right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was ov...

This, you know, we run as democrats for those shared values and none of those are being supported by the republicans. when we have a prescription drug bill that passed last week with overwhelming support from the democrats but only two republicans voted to expand medicare benefits and dramatically reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you have to wonder what are the values of this republican party. when mitch mcconnell and the senate is holding up 300 of the bills we passed, many of them dealin...

The justice department internal watchdog determined the fbi was justified opening the investigation and found there was no bias. but the inspector-general found serious errors in the way the probe was conducted. >> significant errors in the fisa process. and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. >> yeah. hes right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard ...

The question is, you know, how impeachment kind of reflects back on and how the process reflects back on democrats and on these sort of swing state republicans. >> also the support may not be increasing but its also not going down for impeachment and that is something that is concerning to people inside the white house and the presidents campaign. they see despite the fact theyve been messaging this as a sham and a witch hunt, its not going down. i think the other thing from the fox poll that wa...

Outside salt lake city in utah. theres that balance. whether its a balance. lets hear more evidence here. lets have a real process. the test will be how much party unity there is in the senate. we think its there in terms of voting on ultimate removal. but will it be there when it comes to the actual rules of the trial. >> also what were hearing from republicans, which is we dont need any of this because weve made up our minds. forget being impartial. this is where we stand. here are some of tho...