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Polarization is pushing Ecuador to the brink of a constitutional crisis

About the impeachment impasse is growing. and on holiday in florida, were getting new details on the presidents state of mind. tell us. >> reporter: thats right. sources tell us the president is increasingly frustrated as this impeachment process hits a stand still. its not a surprise with the stand still ongoing between majority leader mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, unclear exactly how a senate trial will take place. mitch mcconnell has voiced ambivalence about how it might go...

Than a political charade. >> we all know how the story ends. there are not two-thirds of the senators willing to convict and remove the president, and as a consequence, and in an election year, for crying out loud, so as a consequence, we all know howw this ends. so taking up space and valuable time, i guess that must be a game plan, but it does not seem like a winning strategy. >> so this impeachment impasse continues, democrats and republicans are still trying to figure this all out. they are ...

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Encased in the scaffolding. >> there was a lot of reporting that the cathedral needed much more work before you could say it was safe, out of the woods and ready to move forward. >> and theres the reason it will take so long. >> absolutely. back here in the united states, the impeachment impasse. the democrats demands and the republicans standoff, will last into 2020. janie, come here. check this out. let me see. she looks... kind of like me. yeah. thats because its your grandma when she was y...

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American people to ask themselves the question of what kind of drug deal is mitch mcconnell and lindsey gram trying to cook up. i think we have to keep the pressure on just for fairness. fairness to trump, but fairness to the american people, too. also hope that we see a legitimate trial that we can all have confidence in. >> you tweeted that lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell are mocking the oath that they took there in the senate trials. thank you, guys. >> happy holidays to both of you. amid ...

Return. it does sound like mcconnell wants to move forward with this. so my guess is that schumer and mcconnell will be hashing out some of these details over the break. probably not too much. these lawmakers like to have their time off as much as anybody else, but my guess is by the 6th of january, the day the senate is supposed to be back, that there will be some sort of rules agreement decided around then. >> all right. vice news tonight political correspondent elizabeth landers. thank you fr...

House is sending over to us if they ever send it over to us i. >> think its a mistake on the speakers part. its pretty political anyway, and this is sort of the icing on the political cake. >> what speaker pelosi is doing is foam issing tension on a need for a fair trial and a fair trial means you get to call your witnesses. every american knows that thats what a trial is all about. >> hi, everybody. welcome back. im kendis gibson live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. were watching severa...

Somehow she needs to blow up the dynamic. >> thats the point julie was making, too. even as she looks stronger as these debates go, is that enough to catapult her above others? we made the point that biden was in that spot, too. people are putting her in the number 2 spot in terms of where her rankings are. it depends on the ground game, it depends on the ability to translate that into a good night on the debate stage and good face-to-face interactions and hoping others have bad nights so you ca...