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Meantime? >> well, the perception of a potentially lame duck president does have costs. you see it with first-term presidents facing re-election, like when i worked for obama first term and now looking at this in the impeachment context. actors not wanting to enter into negotiations with the president, do longer term deals, not sure hes going to be in office going forward. thats issue number one. second, its not like the world was really convinced that president trump was deeply focused before i...

The president refused to answer the question though he did say, "were going to have a great year." kate? >> whether you like it or not. boris, great to see you. appreciate it. joining me now, samantha, whos a cnn analyst and senior adviser to president obamas national security council and an cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. thank you both for being here. we just got in sound from an interview with republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska. listen to her reaction to the impeac...

Points, undermines civil servants. actively undermine the national security while the impeachment process is playing out. >> more to ask about in a second. michael, one thing seems implicit in this debate of could speaker pelosi hold back the articles indefinitely? could mitch mcconnell skip that step or even skip a, skip holding a senate trial? you have dug into this. what do you think? >> so i think that pelosi has to deliver the articles of impeachment for the impeachment to the perfected and...

The world representing the united states in a shadow diplomacy that has apparently been endorsed by the president and thrown u.s. policy, especially in ukraine, but not only ukraine, is utter chaos. remember the time that he gave pompeo a file of smears against a u.s. ambassador? it said white house on the top of it. this is a pattern of rudy giuliani pretending to be a u.s. government diplomat. okay? you could say that since the president endorsed this that i guess in a sense he is representing...

Had said. i happen to think that has further confused the process. murkowski also criticizing house democrats, saying that their impeachment process was rushed and incomplete. and before a senate trial can happen, house speaker nancy pelosi has to send over the articles of impeachment to the senate. she did address that in her dear colleague letter that was dated on the 21st, writing, this week the house solemnly honored our oath of office bypassing the articles of impeachment. it now remains fo...

Just mentioned. at the same time we have seen a remarkable cohesion within the republican ranks. we saw even the moderate republicans in the house. even many house republicans who had previously voiced discomfort with the president or with his conduct falling into line on the impeachment vote in the house. so i think there is an expectation that will also happen in the senate. with you we dont know what we dont know and i think there is a lot of republican senators and probably democratic senato...

Judiciary committee suggest potential testimony by don mcgann could bring new articles of impeachment into this. the senate and a stalemate as minority leader chuck schumer tries to shape the upcoming trial. >> rich westmans life with the very latest not far from facts or president trump is spending his holidays. high there rich. >> good afternoon julie and robin. the president is spending christmas here with his family in florida and its the week after the house voted to impeach him. thats very...

So she had t to do impeachment. >> you know it is interesting, because youre talking about some of the members of those 31 democrats were in trump carry districts, some of them flipped the district to make them democrats and how vulnerable they are. theyve honestly been targeted by pac money throughout the impeachment process. i do a different calculation of why they are in trouble, they promised health care, the premise of things they havent given yet. that is a bigger issue going into the 2020...

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But i thought that robert mueller was right to paint a somewhat ambiguous picture, and ambiguity wasnt enough for me to call for impeachment. trumps efforts to pressure the ukrainian government, however, are different. >> its a country i think with tremendous potential. >> it appears that acting as the president, not a candidate, using the power and machinery of the united states government, he threatened to withhold taxpayer funds for his personal political gain. that is the definition of abuse...