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Time. a lot of complicated districts out there. its impossible to say republicans will take all the seats back. that is a heavy lift. but people like abigails hamburger in the seventh district of virginia, a story i know quite well, she started like giving ah on the floor today like this is the last speech while anyone pays attention to me. >> this may be the end of my political career and if thats the case, so be it. there were a lot of democrats that said that after obamacare past. >> laura: l...

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Assured you for a week that giving weapons to ukraine somehow guarantees national security. and, of course, on cnn they are telling you that the democrats are despondent over all of this. they just hate impeaching the man he had hate the most. they are all wearing black today, why? because they really mean it. no, it wasnt choreographed. these are people who havent set foot in a church without a camera in 20 years. and yet, they are sincere in their sadness. in fact, cnn will tell you they are d...

Office, nobody really does. and he will claim complete and total exoneration after the senate process is over. >> all right, jon karl, thank you. and as jon reported there, the president in battle creek, michigan, tonight, and so is our martha raddatz. lets bring martha in tonight, because marthmartha, the presid immediately turned impeachment into a message on this campaign. >> reporter: he certainly did. he really has been vocalizing the tweets he had today and that letter to nancy pelosi. b...

Senate. >> lets take the republican complaints out of it, congressman. as you know, you have fellow house members in competitive districts who voted for impeachment at some political risk. theyre not very happy about the idea of this trial dragging out. what is your message to them? >> look, our colleagues came together, democrats and republicans, and listened to the facts that were presented. whats abundantly clear is that the president violated his oath of office, there was an abuse of power a...

Help us extrapolate in terms of whats going to happen next. theres two interesting things evolving, one that was just spelled out, that she believes more evidence is going to come out aboutscandal, as the proceedings here move from the house, which has completed the impeachment process, and this starts to become the senate trial, although theres drama there, too. she thinks more evidence will come out. theres a little bit of precedent for that in terms of richard nixon and the impeachment he fac...

Here? >> yeah, but the -- you have to understand, pelosi is not holding anything. this is not a strategy to try to leverage and get something from the senate, the senate has to work to put together its rules. traditionally, what has happened, is the republicans and democrats worked together to develop the rules to serve as the jury. theyre in the process of doing that. when theyre ready -- they have their rules she will transmit. >> you say traditionally, really only happened once. you had trent...

Is she believes more evidence is going to come out about this scandal as the proceedings here move from the house, which has now completesed the impeachment process and this starts to become the senate trial, although theres drama there, too. she thinks more evidence will come out. theres obviously a little bit of precedent for that in terms of richard nixon and the impeachment proceeding he faced in watergate. but were seeing the presidents lawyer, rudy giuliani, who worked on this scheme with ...

At our core we are all american. all of us. we choose our future. we choose what kind of nation we want to be. here is our choice tonight. will we let impeachment become an exercise of raw political power regardless if it damages our country? or will we protect the proper grounds and process for impeachment now and in the future? for months democrats and many in the media have attempted to normalize the impeachment process that would remove a duly elected president from office. after three years...

And walk us through some of the next steps that we will see with this impeachment process. >> reporter: she already threw a bomb into this whole process that was relatively unexpected, she made it just after the president was impeached by the house of representatives but what she is doing is holding out for the leverage she has, and using this to try to get some concessions and get some clarity in this process. but what she and democrats are worried about is a process that is not agreed on befor...