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Accordingly. >> so lets play this out a few more steps. lets assume this vote goes as planned and this moves out of the judiciary committee and then in the house the impeachment happens and it moves over to the senate for a trial. your name, as you know, has been circulated as a potential house manager, essentially one of the prosecutors for the democrats. have you been approached by this? >> all i can say is that i think nancy pelosi has done an exquisite job with regard to arranging the procee...

Juror in this senate trial would be somehow collaborating with the presidents defense attorneys. thats very unusual. i think inappropriate. that being said, i think that going forward i just respectfully submit to senators on both sides that they have to vote their conscience. they have to examine the facts very carefully. this is a moment that is very serious, and i hope that individuals can be independent-minded. certainly they should not be cowed into voting a tern wcerta by their majority le...

Dislike -- supposed dislike for the president. this is about the president of the united states abusing his authority and really putting the united states in jeopardy. and democrats have a constitutional obligation to see that through, and that is why we are here today on friday the 13th in the light of day shining a light on the presidents misbehavior. >> david jolly, as donna said, friday the 13th, a near full moon. another feature of this process has been the confessions of donald j. trump an...

Impeachment against donald j. trump. were lucky now to be joined by phil rucker, an msnbc political analyst, and heidi przybyla, nbc news correspondent. heidi, im told just before you came on that youve got some new reporting. share it with us. >> ridght. this is just providing some important context here. this is an important moment to pull the cord, cut the noise and distill what is happening here. there are just two arguments that the republicans are making here. the first one that this is an...

No matter who it is on the democratic side, they would be essentially up against in this senate trial people representing the president. its our reporting here at nbc news that would likely include pat cipollone, the white house counsel, who is expected to lead that process for republicans and the president. senator mcconnell is a big part of that process as well. i want to play for you what he had to say overnight over on fox news. watch. >> everything i do during this im coordinating with whit...

Them. they didnt know anything about it. if they knew something about it, they were either excluded from the jury or they had to promise to put aside what they new. this is exactly the opposite. not only do they know a whole bunch, but they have been talking about it incessantly so its an interesting dynamic. >> and as the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell stated explicitly that he does not care about this constitutional process. he thumbed his nose at the way this is supposed to proceed. ...

Joyce vance, our contributor here, called it throwing spaghetti against the wall. i wonder if you feel like any of those attacks landed. did they make any arguments yesterday that give you any concern or pause that they may actually make the public skeptical of this process? >> i really think if anybody in the public, and i would say to all of your viewers right now, look at the facts and look at the transcripts. do not get distracted by the noise and the obstruction that the republicans are thr...

That the aid was being withheld, they started to inquire on the day that the president conditioned it in the phone call an enwhat we saw over and over again yesterday was the democrats cite that fact and then republicans repeatedly say the ukrainians didnt know and disregarding that fact. so again, just to distill this. we are seeing two things. unfair process, republicans are about to control that process. and two, that the facts that are being laid out are really not facts. >> i think heidi br...

Its not about the past, it is about the future, its about the 2020 election. we havent spent a lot of time talking about that. and i think it provided the kind of argument that the democrats needed that brought some clarity to the conversation about what the president did, his obstruction of congress and blocking witnesses and blocking documents, his clear abuse of power. and what he was trying not just to do to hold the ukrainian president and government hostage because they needed military ass...

Of the republican party in defending this president is to claim unfairness in the process, to allege that there wasnt been due process, to say things like kangaroo court, when the committees have been using rules that the republicans themselves created when they were in the majority and where as i think representative lofgren did yesterday, is really provide a history lesson of how the process here has not been inconsistent or somehow vastly different from the clinton impeachment -- >> which she...