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Release documents that are germane and urgent to what the congress was doing and for them to with hold witnesses. heres folks again that have been undermining the ability for congress to do its job and to provide checks and balances, and this right now has much to do about nothing. those impeachment articles are coming to the senate and what shes doing right now to ensure its a fair trial, which i think every american believes it should be a fair trial. >> thank you very much for taking the time...

Could call witnesses and documents, and mcconnell told him straight up no. it seems pelosi is going to sit on the impeachment articles until that changes. do you think thats the right call? whats the leverage? >> well, first of all nancy pelosi has been a light worker in dark times then way shes handled this whole process, pulling together almost the entiry of the democratic caucus. i have a lot of respect for her. i think a lot of americans shes earned more and more respect. those articles are ...

Is to make the argument that even if you accept president trumps sort of made-up argument that he withheld the aid because he wanted to conduct a, quote, policy review, that that still is an illegal action and a violation of the impoundment control act. so weve asked gao to take a look at this argument. i think to the extent that they agree, it will just be more evidence on top of the already mountains of evidence that this was far from a perfect call and a perfect action, and that this will rep...

Its been fascinating to watch this from the uk given that a lot of the american impeachment proceedings come from old british parliamentary practice. and it used to be the case that sometimes the house of lords would just dismiss impeachment articles that would come out of the house of commons. so actually by holding back these articles until you can be guaranteed the trial will happen was the practice of sort of 18th century british parliamentary practice as well. so i dont know if nancy pelosi...

Now the only thing she can do is threaten to withhold the documents, i think were coming to the end of the road on that, and the impeachment articles will have to be formally submitted. frankly, i think they could be tried if they werent submitted. we know exactly what was voted. but well see how this plays out. and in the end, mitch mcconnell gets to call the shots, just aspell osei kuehled the shots on the house side. in the end, this is a political process, its not a court of law, its a polit...

Democrats, doj lawyers told a federal appeals court that a request for grand jury materials from the mueller probe of russian interference is no longer relevant since the house impeachment articles do not involve the russia probe. house lawyers disagree, saying the information could be used in the senate under the current articles or lead to different ones from the house. arguments for the case are set for january 3rd to 2020. while you are opening your gifts later this week, national security o...

>> come good morning leland. the holiday break has not stopped this bitter fight over impeachment. house republicans are furious at house speaker nancy pelosi. thats because last week pelosi announced she is holding off on sending the senate the impeachment articles the house passed last week. lawmakers want to know if this is a temporary delay or part of some political tactic. we were out a tweet from pelosi within the last half hour and she goes "the house cannot choose our impeachment manager...

The thing i found so profound being a student of politics this long, she said it. right? its one thing. she could have held those impeachment articles back. say the house is not going in and allowed the clock to play out because, you know, it would have made sense. the idea that she actually went out and said it to me is sort of amazing. she just gave everybody -- she revealed how political it was and how transparently political this whole process is. instead of holding it back and doing it, whi...

Finally in the house. what happened? you saw the presidents numbers rise, the number of people that were for impeachment drop. this is good for the president, bad for the democrats. think about it. heres whats interesting. after the house voted for impeachment, pelosi did two things. she put usmca on the agenda. she wanted to pivot as quick as possible to make those in trump districts to walk the plank. its not just about impeachment. the other thing that i thought was interesting, the morning a...

Do they lose some kind of leverage that they have in this standoff with the articles? >> mcconnell is right and brett is right that she has no leverage to force mcconnell to do a trial the way she wants him to do it. but nancy pelosi is also a tactician and she doesnt usually do things without purpose and theres a growing sense shes holding onto these impeachment articles because it denies the president the ability to have an acquittal. it potentially gives democrats more time to dig things up. ...