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Say we want something other than politics i think is rich. i would agree that if the house had been fair in the way they had done this and not been political, i would join you and charlie and say the senate should do the same thing. thats the danger when you just play politics, it trickles down. now the senate is going to play politics. i think lisa murkowski, she is an upstanding lady. do i think she gets any traction? probably not. she was back home in alaska when she made those comments. who ...

Get certain things done. >> so the let at the end of the tunnel, when you come back to session, i know the counterfactual. i know that in 98 there was a big gap between when the president was impeached and when the managers were picked. i think it was december 16th and then not until january something were they picked, i know. this is different because it seems like a political play. when you are back, do you think this process should move to the senate and do so quickly? >> first of all, what i...

>> ive also put in all my time. >> im not saying you havent. >> ive put in all my time and effort. >> thats all fair. >> its a full-time job. >> you put your time, you put your sweat, you put your money, i allow you to check all those boxes because thats what the record shows. what im saying is the argument is that money poisons politics. not at the grassroots level, not in helping organizations that do things that you believe matter in your own opinion, but the idea that our political campaigns...

And ted cruz and marco rubio, all said, they said hes the worst thing that could happen to our party. lindsey graham said donald trump could go to hell. they knew when they were running what his character was. >> but they lost. >> his character is the same. >> i know. that is clear to anybody with eyes. what im saying is they made a choice. me won, i lost. now were going to go. similarly, this process is going to ind. its going to go to the senate. theyre going to have a trial. in all likelihood...

Senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made no secret of his own bias in an impeachment trial, and that was a mistake. i cant wait to watch him take the oath. now on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have a lone republican senator, and i emphasize "lone" for a reason. moderate lisa murkowski of alaska. heres what she said. >> in fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. to me, it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. any way we move forwa...

How unjust the current situation is. if he would do that, then its just a question of what is his message and do people believe it. >> i get it. i get that message matters. so does money. and the argument is you, arguably even bloomberg, weve had invitations to him to be on the show, he hasnt wanted to come on and make his case yet, well see if he does. but for the money, you guys arent in this race. and is that okay that the process even allows it? >> let me put it this way, chris. im not a fam...

As for us, we do what we do. we fight your fight. we demand the powerful answer to you and sometimes it works like this did. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. actually i didnt. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didnt. >> youve got to have the fight because every so often, heated moments, they shed some light. not always, but sometimes. as ugly as its been, and it is uglier for some of us than anything ive ever see...

Mad, sad, and frustrated by the process thats taken so long in the house or you know what? there are other things we could be doing that we are not doing. underscored by the last-minute passage of that big trade agreement between the united states, mexico, and canada. i think mexico is our number one trading partner. the fact that agreement was held up for almost one year because they didnt want to give the president a win on anything and they wanted to occupy their time with impeachment. people...

>> absolutely. bernie sanders has raised untold amount of money. he has an huge email a list which allows them to have resources to compete through the end of the nomination process. i think one thing that is not being told here is the enduring power of moderates in the primary. you see the rise of pete buttigieg, joe bidens numbers have remained relatively stable throughout the entire process. thats something to think about it come i think this is up for grabs. >> will get to the issue of moder...

Of a political year. >> you think they are stalling to continue digging and they hope they find something more? >> look, they had all the tools at their disposal up on the house side. they made it secret not just behind locked doors but with armed guards outside the doors. they still havent made all of the transcripts available to members of congress and according to house rules any committee hearing is supposed to be the transcript available to other house members. they have not done so. no one...