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Have a lengthy trial, because he wants the facts out there. he has never to this moment been able to present his side of the story. on the other hand, i have heard mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham and other say it shorter trial would serve the interests of the country better. maybe they are right. this is a very divisive process. spilling can i ask you one last question before chuck schumer gets underway? if van drew, the democratic congressman from new jersey does switch parties, will the rep...

As a witness if republicans are going to have to put up some witnesses may be adam schiff will be called. listen to what he said about what success looks like to him. >> no, it is not a failure, at least it is not a failure in the sense of a constitutional duty in the house. >> dana: saying that acquittal in the senate, if the senators dont impeach the president, then that is still okay prayed he thinks it is a big success, what do you think? >> i think the only thing you can read from the schum...

Dissent in that part of the report? >> well, the dissent was based on what we presented in the 14 hour marathon hearing that there are really two concerns ultimately that we have, there was a fraudulent process that brought us to this point as congressman ratcliffe was just noting and chairman who engineered the whole thing. they had secret meetings in the basement, they cherry picked the witnesses and the testimony that they wanted, and even to this day, dana, even though i am a member of the h...

Completely cut out of the house process. it was recorded none of the usual courtesies of rights that have been given to presidents accused of such things in the past. the republicans were not allowed to call their own witnesses, so i think that mcconnells interest is in making sure that the white house feels that what does happen in the senate does accord with past practice and that they are given their say. >> dana: mcconnell and apparently he has said that he is ready to sit down and talk? loo...

Republicans in the house, that their primary focus is to protect the president rather than having a partial process here. i dont think leader mcconnell did himself any favors in fighting that narrative when he came on the error on this network the other day and said, we are going to be lockstep and coordinate this every step of the way with the white house. so i think that much is the republicans tried to make the process one of the questions during the house phase of this, looks like democrats ...

Get them to go along with democrats demands for a long trial, heres what chuck schumer is worried about. he is worried that republicans are understandably going to use this moment to point out how unfair the house process was, by not really giving it a lot of attention in the senate, and that will further make house democrats look as though this was a partisan endeavor. so he wants to structure that. he will talk a lot about fairness, but i think a lot of republicans are going to have trouble sw...

Interesting that senator schumer said this morning he didnt think conversations in and of themselves would be problematic. it is the willingness in schumers words and mcconnell to do kind of whatever the white house wants him to do that he would find most concerning. i can tell you that based on conversations with one of the senior administration officials i had today, the white house is working, already got its eye on the ball. past this week to what might happen in a senate trial. as you and j...

Representatives. >> this is an epic clash between two sides and it really reflects the divided nature in washington right now. youre not going to see a lot of defections on the democratic side, perhaps some. youll see none on the republican side. the president made it clear how he is going to deal with this. in terms of the house process, hes declared it a sham, a witch hunt, political. hes refused to participate or let his people participate, and his folks will say when you look ahead to 2020, ...

Continues to be disgracefully denied to him bip ty the house. stephanie grisham reiterating many of the talking points weve been hearing from this white house throughout the house process. as you know, the white house counsel, pat cipollone, has rejected offers to participate on any level during these recent hearings. the white house has continually said that it believes that this is partisan, its a sham process, and that its looking forward to the senate trial. and we know that pat cipollone an...

That is the power of impeachment in article i. so we have charged him with the highest of constitutional crimes. we have laid out the crimes, they are clear. republicans are trying to distract americans from what is actually happening here and today we will vote to send those articles of impeachment to the full house floor for a vote. >> congresswoman, it was clear in watching yesterday that you had all agreed to use all of your time before the public, we were all watching every step of the way,...