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The end of september. its like a gigantic christmas tree. theres something under it for everyone. almost every lawmaker can say their funding requests are being met. >> bret: the impeachment process is likely to head to the u.s. senate. theres work being done on capitol hill. joining me from capitol hill to talk about it all new hampshire democratic senator jean shaheen. thanks for being here. i want to talk about impeachment. >> sure. >> bret: republicans have criticized the house impeachment p...

Office that ive taken. and one of the most serious things we can do is to impeach the president. next to declaring war, the most serious decision that we will make. i believe the framers of the constitution were very concerned about whether a president would use the office for their personal gain. and thats why they put in the impeachment clause. what im going to do is listen to the case thats presented to the senate. im going to consider very carefully the facts that have been presented. and th...

American people is that the president could submit any name he wants to. the chairman says no. >> were in the process of collecting information for a indictment. the trial process takes place in the senate. thats where they conduct a trial where their rules will govern and anybody presumably will be able to bring in whatever witnesses that they want to bring in. now, we have tried to run an open, fair and transparent process. >> reclaiming my time. you frequently and did when we established the ...

Not just an impeachment on the house. we learned that the committee has gone ahead and are approved a deal, a trade deal between our deal and the canadians and the mexicans. it will ultimately get house passage and likely senate passage. john roberts there at the white house. the president wrote a nasty letter today. >> writing a nasty letter it would be an understatement. this is a copy of a 6-page letter. forgive the highlighter, but thats the way i maintain sani sanity. its a six-page letter ...

As you see this, i watched you this morning setting this up. it got pretty shoul chippy at t. its a reflex muscle memory from the prior testimony about this not being of their process particularly for the president. >> good afternoon. i think this committee and its leaders in chairman mcgovern in the ranking member tom cole from oklahoma, they do have a little bit of a better relationship than perhaps the other two from judiciary and intel did. at least they give each other a little leeway when ...

Fraud or committed extortion, all things that he could be prosecuted for. later, we simply have to allege the course of constitutional criminal conduct he was engaged in. so we can set that one aside. a second thing that my friend said was that there were no fact witnesses, that this was based on the report that was delivered to us by the house committee and thats a play on words too. there were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the house committee on intelligence, the house oversight commit...

Eventually saying something on the house floor. it took a long time but they did it. this will be much more controlled, much more compact. it will be controlled by the democrats and then it will flip over to the senate where it will be controlled by the republicans and you stop a battle this morning between mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer. >> harris: yeah, before this whole thing got started, you heard from the majority leader and then also chuck schumer in the minority and it seemed like ther...

Lewis former u.s. attorney. nice to see you. lay out your expectation for today. lets start there. >> i do think there will be a lot of fighting in the rules committee. very unusual process. but i sort of looked at a lot of the criticism last week and over the weekend as this impeachment process was being driven by california, obviously schiff, by new york, nadler, and so i think this is sort of pelosi spreading the wealth a little bit bringing in mcgovern from massachusetts to try to cover them...

Hearing, have arguments that supported his position. but he doesnt want to do that. he wants to just be above the law. interestingly, notice he signed this. even cipillone wouldnt sign this. he had his own temper tantrum, very juvenile, and nobody would sign it so he had to sign it. thats what this is. this is a temper tantrum, its not a legal document. it does not advance any legal arguments. it does not support whatever is going to be his position when the time comes to go through the impeachm...

Collin peterson. peterson says he hasnt yet decided whether hes going to vote yes on the articles of impeachment. he represents a district thats projected to be a toss-up in the 2020 election. his constituents plan to let him know what they want him to do when the house meets to vote on impeachment articles on wednesday. impeachment process by design doesnt have a public component. its up to our representatives in congress to do just that. to represent their constituents. in that room as they co...