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Pretrial opinion and in 1998 he put his impeachment vote up for sale by saying a vote for me is a vote against impeachment and there is a long history of u.s. senators expressing their opinion and there has never been a thing wrong with it until now. >> john dean, is that different. >> there is. and scott put his finger on it. there is a different between opinion and impartiality. everybody has opinion. when a common juror in a common law court goes in and renders a judgment, that has to be impa...

Procedures to win an acquittal for the defendant -- >> are you worried about the impartiality of bernie sanders, kamala harris and -- >> and before we -- >> hold on. im going to stop you now because i do want to get this in because the reporting from boris off the top is important and john dean, i would love you to weigh in. through in reporting that the president is doing so much that it is feeding into him and we just learned from boris that pat cipollone isnt down there in mar-a-lago and as y...

And they are wont give political speeches theyll give a presentation from the prosecution and the presidents lawyers and then i presume at that point they decide whether they need to have witnesses. this is a perfectly fine process for them to follow. and by the way, i dont think there is a u.s. senator out there save one or two that hasnt already decided how theyre going to vote. this is not like a real courtroom. this is not like an episode of perry mason. this is like every other political th...

Legitimacy of fairness. one is from senator schumer from back with the last iteration of impeachments with clinton. its making the rounds. >> the republicans said proudly, quote, im not an impartial juror. independent not im not impartial about this at all. >> anybody taking an oat tomorrow with have a preopinion. it not a jury box. >> this is not a criminal trial. this is something that was put in that is susceptible to the whims of politics. >> people are saying this to say, see, its all the s...

Last iteration of impeachment with clinton. let me just play it for you because its making the rounds. >> surely. >> the republican leader said proudly, quote, im not an impartial juror. im not impartial about this at all. this is an astonishing admission of partisanship. anybody taking an oath tomorrow can have a pre-opinion. its not a jury box. many do. this is not a criminal trial, but this is something that the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of po...

Starts hell be exactly like any own senator and sits there in his chair without his device and you cant talk, you can only ask questions via written instrument and they are wont give political speeches theyll give a presentation from the prosecution and the presidents lawyers and then i presume at that point they decide whether they need to have witnesses. this is a perfectly fine process for them to follow. and by the way, i dont think there is a u.s. senator out there save one or two that hasn...

A vote against impeachment and there is a long history of u.s. senators expressing their opinion and there has never been a thing wrong with it until now. >> john dean, is that different. >> it is. what happened is -- and scott put his finger on it. there is a different between opinion and impartiality. everybody has opinion. when a common juror in a common law court goes in and renders a judgment, that has to be impartial. that doesnt mean they dont have to get rid of opinions, it means they ha...

Themselves? you hear dean raising the point about some of them have had money raised by the defendant. you have the majority leader of the senate saying hes not an impartial juror. should he recuse himself? you have graham, lindsey graham of south carolina, the senator, saying hes not impartial, should they recuse themselves? how do you have a fair trial where they have to take an oath of impartiality when you have those two stating, and im quoting them verbatim, that theyre not impartial? >> we...

Going to go on a bit longer because the two inflection points she will need before she can hand over the impeachment articles are either a retraction from mitch mcconnell about his impartiality when he said he will not be impartial, or two she could hold them into the spring until the court finally disposes of the challenge on executive immunity he wont let anybody testify. she could make the case, look, were not going to transmit these until the issue of mulvaney and others testify and is settl...

>> i wouldnt be surprise fd dream came up again. and she made clear voting rights is the number one priority. i think theyre going to do everything they can to do anything in the house. what were seeing is shes really putting out a set of bills that there very clear democratic agenda ahead of the election. >> very important to voter registration. where do you think she will be turning her attentions to in 2020? >> health care. health care, immigration, taxes and this impeachment issue is going t...