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Expect some coordination on some level, senator daschle and minority leader of the time, coordinated with high-level staff in the white house and here, it sounds like the majority leader will be in constant interaction not just with the president and with his top lawyer who will be there at the trial representing the president. so this creates the atmosphere in which senator murkowski has come forward and said hold on, we have to rethink this. its not being perceived by the american people as a ...

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...

With the defense. >> reporter: senator lisa murkowskis openly criticizing the way republicans are handling the impeachment process, specifically taking aim at senate majority leader mitch mcconnells close coordination with the white house. >> when i heard that, i was disturbed. >> reporter: the senator is now a wild card for mcconnell, who cant lose more than three republicans to keep control of the impeachment trial and possibly a problem for the president, after admitting she remains undecided...

>> reminds you how the territory is so uncharted in so many ways. mcconnell weighing moving ahead without support of chuck schumer by going to the floor on a rule that would be approved then by just a majority. 51 senators. sources say mcconnell prefers, though to cut a bipartisan deal with schumer. prefer to do that. tim, if mcconnell did go ahead, though, without democratic support, how unprecedented would that be? >> this is the first time that the -- that congress has been divided between th...

As you say, there was some action on social media as you described it. let me read a couple of these tweets. i dont often read the presidents insults of people but im doing so because i think its important to hear your moms reaction and your reaction to these insults. here are just a couple. nancy pelosi has no leverage over the senate. mitch mcconnell did not nose his way into the impeachment process in the house, and she has no ha standing in the senate. crazy nancy should clean up her filthy,...

Impeachment process i dont think can last for investigate. >> im missing something. i still need you guys to explain to me, things are still happening. rudy giuliani is still going to ukraine as of two weeks ago to do the very same thing that this phone call was about. lev parnas, who has been charged with laundering and funneling money into -- russian money into u.s. elections is talking, hes still revealing things. what harm is there in waiting? i dont see around her christmas table, why she w...

That one can use as leverage? is this just a game of chicken and someone has to move first? >> it will be interesting to see who blinks first. theres a calendar. these gentlemen have been in the senate for a long time. theyre institutionalists in the senate and there will be pressure on them to take action and not allow the senate to look like, in their minds, a clown show in the house where everyone was doing their own thing and there didnt seem to be organization. but the fact that president t...

I think thats why the position of withholding the articles indefinitely is not going to be a sustainable position. youve heard democratic lawmakers on in and in other places say they expect speaker pelosi to send over -- and this comes over a holiday break when we didnt expect ationtion on the senate, theyre using this time to shine a light on what they believe is mcconnell and the senate republicans what they say is unfair handling so far of the senate impeachment process. but republicans have ...

Its been exactly one week since president trump went on vacation and for seven consecutive day has been taking swings at democrats and the impeachment process on twitter. through christmas eve, christmas day. now today comes this. the president quoting a commentator accusing democratic leaders of rigging the impeachment trial thats to come in the senate. the start date for that trial remains unknown since house speaker nancy pelosi is delaying handing over the articles of impeachment to the sena...

>> we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. >> reporter: senator leasy murkowski is openly criticizing the way republicans are handseling the impeachment process, specifically taking aim at senate majority leader mcconnells close coordination with the white house. >> when i heard that that was disturbed. >> reporter: the moderate republican senator is now a wild card for mcconnell who cant lose more than three republicans in order to keep control of the impeachme...