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>> martha: first your reaction when sandy hoyer said, okay, we are done paired businesses close there are no more votes. >> i cannot say i had a negative reaction to that. im looking forward -- >> martha: everybody likes to go home. but it means that you will not have the movement of what was decided in the house move over to the senate and get that moving on a fast course. >> that is very true, and the reason that will not, the reason is because it is an official weak case. and nancy pelosi rea...

Senate was created and which outcome would betray it. the senates duty is clear. the senates duty is clear. when the time comes, we must fulfill it. >> you saw the senate majority leader delivering about a half-hour rebuttal in effect to the house impeachment case, calling it the thinnest case for impeachment in the countrys history and saying, poppy, that this, if the senate were so accept this, invite, in his words, impeachment of every future president. >> yeah, thats right. you know, what st...

In fact, president trump is spending his first day amp being impeached phoning allies asking what is going on? not sure what it means for him. he wants a vigorous defense in the senate. he believes a friendly area and spending the day mostly behind closed doors. meeting with congressman -- the congressman that switched parties. and its unclear what the presidents dwer s defense tea look like during a trial. its expected white house counsel will taked lead. some aides are in the presidents ear te...

Her guns. she wants to see what happens. tell us whats going on behind the scenes and what the mood is on the hill. >> im not sure we got much clarity from the speaker. here is what she did say. she said she wants to find out what the senate trial process will be before she can determine how many managers shell appoint. those are the house prosecutors of the impeachment case essentially, and who they will be. practically speaking, that means were probably not going to find out those next steps u...

So, garrett, like i said, the definition of a trial balloon is what democrats have done. nancy pelosi is not saying shes doing this for any other reason other than waiting. you know, she hasnt talked about any larger motive that other lawmakers have speculated on. hows the trial balloon playing? i guess is probably the first question to ask. at least among house democrats and senate democrats. >> so far, so good, chuck. although, theres been some confusion among democrats over what exactly the p...

To meet behind closed doors this afternoon in whats likely to become a testy negotiation in donald trumps impeachment. thats where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. former prosecutor, andrew weissmann, karine jean-pierre, chief public affairs officer from moveon.org. former chief spokesman at the doj, matt miller, and editor-at-large for the conservative commentary the bulwark charlie sykes. msnbc correspondent garrett haake. garrett, first of all, congratulations o...

Distinguishes this impeachment case from others in the past. >> the idea of impeachment fundamentally was meant as a process where left and right come together because they are overwhelmed by what the executive is doing to them. in the case of a president especially, that whats ever happening is so bad that there are going to be two-thirds of you in the senate that see it that way and that that is not this situation. there will be zero buy-in from the republicans, they dont accept the premise, t...

Vigorously over others. this administration took the extraordinary position -- nixon didnt take this position, clinton didnt take this position, that it would have nothing whatsoever to do with the impeachment process, it simply swept it off the board entirely and that is what i think led to article 2 and distinguishes this impeachment case from others in the past. >> the idea of impeachment fundamentally was meant as a process where left and right come together because they are overwhelmed by w...

Going to happen. the president is going to be impeached. lets look ahead to the senate trial in january. and there is some thinking here at the white house today that chuck schumers play to try to get moderate republicans are republicans who may be sitting on the fence like susan collins of maine, mitt romney of utah. lisa murkowski of alaska to think twice about, you know, voting with the president or against him by releasing this idea of heres the way i would like to see the trial unfold. here...

We like to try to keep our eye on the ball around here so remember, this impeachment case against donald trump has many allegations. a big one was one of the first things in the alleged conspiracy was getting rid of the ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch so there would be an easy path. in the impeachment report it says the ousting of that ambassador it set the stage for others to work with giuliani to advance this scheme. this illicit scheme to advance the presidents re-election. it was th...