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By the chief justice of the united states supreme court. were talking about that as if it is a forgone conclusion, as if thats the next obvious thing on the to-do list here. it is such a rare occasion in american history that you could almost talk about it as unprecedented. there have been only three presidents ever impeached in u.s. history. one in the 1800s, one in the 1900s and one now in the 21st century. as of tonight, three u.s. presidents ever impeached, including president trump. but as ...

So the whole argument for going ahead so quickly with this impeachment process was you needed to act as a deterrent to the president to, you know, continue his ongoing criminal enterprise. >> right. >> but if this goes to the senate and mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham will already signal its going to be a sham, rigged trial thats going to result in the president claiming exoneration, he will be emboldened and empowered. and a president trump who no longer faces impeachment can be seriously da...

I do also think theres something interesting here. theres a wild card which is that the trial is overseen by the chief juice tis, and there are rules that govern the impeachment process, so rule 7 gives the chief justice the power to decide motions that are made to the chief justice. >> a house manager could make a motion to call bolton or giuliani or mulvaney? >> exactly. motions can be made on either side. now, its unlike a normal judge. because although the chief justice has that power, the r...

The other x factor, all those democratic senators i mentioned who are running for president. they probably dont want to be left wondering in late or early january or, god forbid february, when or if they might get called back for a senate impeachment trial. they are going to want some surety on this too. there is a lot of moving parts here. >> garrett, stick around for the rest of this conversation, if you will. andrew, how do you explain to people outside of sort of the really difficult to unde...

We are where we are, tom, because he has been given full freedom to exercise averou -- freedom to exercise averis with everything he says and does. >> i disagree with that. hes in office because the american people elected him and hell be standing for reelection based on what the american people do. and i think fundamentally thats where the american people want this to go and us to do our work in congress that impacts their lives on a positive basis day to day. what you see today in regards to t...

Is a quick vote, history will not look at them kindly and their consciences will not look on them kindly and i am hopeful we can get a whole bunch and i wont say who and it might come from people who might rise to the occasion and the impeachment process is awesome in the biblical sense. awe-inspiring, and i hope, i pray and i think that people will rise to the occasion, but ill tell you this, when those republican senators, all of them, when they go home people are going to ask them whats wrong...

No president would give a journalist that kind of attention, let alone to set him up as an enemy of a democracy. we are where we are, tom, because he has been given full freedom to exercise averis with everything he says and does. >> i disagree with that. hes in office because the american people elected him and hell be standing for reelection based on what the american people do. and i think fundamentally thats where the american people want this to go and us to do our work in congress that imp...

Amash. there had been talk about trying to make him an impeachment manager. hes a libertarian conservative. was a republican until he got in a fight with trump over presumption of innocence pl principles. >> you get essentially to be the chief prosecutor. you get to present the case on behalf of the democrats. look and weve seen all the video of him as the impeachment manager making obviously the exact same opposite voice he has now made in this impeachment process. >> all right. john, laura, th...

Pompeos and mulvaneys. i could see her doing that. only takes three or four of them to do so. >> along those lines, what is mitch mcconnell afraid of? why is he afraid to hear testimony from john bolton or mick mulvaney or these others? >> well, i think where mitch is at is he said, listen. this has been a partisan effort. we had this conversation, john, you me and charlie. republicans wanted to call witnesses in the house during the impeachment process. this was a chiropractdemocratic effort. m...

Is the blanket refusal, the absolute refusal reflected in pat cipollone, the white house counsels eight-page letter he sent in september that said we are not going to participate at all in the impeachment process. were not going to allow any witnesses to testify. were not going to produce any documents, any emails, and that is something that has never been done before. and it got the president impeached. its going to get the president impeached. >> if you are wondering, this motion to adjourn, a...