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This isnt about pelosi stalling or even contempt with us claims by mcconnell and others that hes going to take a false oath of impartiality. talk about being faithful to god. its all noise. give us the two who know the most according to both sides, and if the prayerful ploys dont work, then stick to the secular system that binds us. the founders warned if you go through this process and you shirk the truth, it would disrupt public tranquility. it seems like an oxymoron now, right? rarely in our ...

Oath to do impart shall justice. you called that a meaningless circular word game about impartiality and their ability or willingness to do it after we heard from leader mcconnell and senator lindsey graham. explain that. >> they ooher focusing on the phrase in the oath which is to do impartial justice. very different than the court room where the jurors have to be impartial. a lot of attention paid to asking them questions about are they impartial or not. mcconnell and graham are taking the wor...

People who could clear them? no one. again, amen, amen, i say. i believe in invoking the fate of the faithful. unlike the ineffable questions that the religious face so often, this we can know. if the president is about the truth and being persecuted, then bolton and mulvaney must speak. this isnt about pelosi stalling or even contemptuous claims by mcconnell and others that hes going to take a false oath of impartiality. talk about being faithful to god. its all noise. give us the two who know ...

Interesting tidbit, senator grahams favorability rating was at 38% earlier this month, which is music to the ears of his likely democratic opponent jamie harrison. hes the son of a single mother whose fam received food stamps and welfare as he grew up as a kid and went onto go to yale and georgetown university. and hes now running for senator grahams senate seat and he joins me now. mr. harrison, its good to have you. lets start on this question of impeachment. what do you make of the flip-flopp...

The constitution and the constitution said the house has the sole power to impeach. two articles passed on this week and it is not clear to me there is anything out there that said it has to be conveyed to the senate. and look, it is very clear what nancy pelosi is doing here. it is equally clear that the president doesnt understand that it is congressional authority to decide how this will proceed. you had mitch mcconnell who is running the senate say, and i quote him on this, im not at all imp...

Primary battle, state of the union, president trump, february is already shaping up. it gives us leverage to have the articles handed over to the senate in mid-january. what kind of leverage does that give democrats? >> nun, this is the dumbest thing ive ever heard. lets start this trial during the iowa caucuses, keep the senators out of iowa come up with them in washington and let it go through the new hampshire primary. if you want to start playing political games, timing the transmission of d...

Political. >> harris: youve worked inside a white house before, youve done the messaging for a president so im curious. when democrats criticize working together, white house lawyers and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, do they have a point? >> they have zero-point. this is an impeachment process by the house of representatives against the president. is it any surprise to anybody that republicans talk to republicans and democrats democrats? this is not a court of law trial, it is a waste ...

Constitution doesnt say much about what this is supposed to look like. but it does use language that -- it does say that the impeachment is to be tried in the senate and elsewhere in the constitution we know what a trial is supposed to look like. and it says that the senators are supposed to take an oath above and beyond their oath to the constitution that they take when theyre elected. so, this is an oath of impartiality. but the precise rules are the rules that are determined by the senate. >>...

Paramount here, so harry litman, you jump in. what do you think? >> okay. good advice by doug, but good luck as he suggests. in terms of it is really important and a normal feature of impeachments at any trial to have witnesses and this is the last moment of leverage, i think mcconnell came out of the blocks a little early, proclaiming his lack of impartiality while pelosi has a measure of leverage because we know once it goes to the senate he is a tyrant who will give them no quarter. so i do t...

Locking up those who work in his administration who would testify, and then the majority leader. >> part of that, the democrats want the senate to have more witnesses, they want these administration witnesses. should they have just waited for the courts to decide whether these trump administration witnesses have to testify? wouldnt that have dealt with this very issue democrats are having? >> my understanding of the house dialogue is that it might take up to a year to get the courts to be able t...