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Have ideas for witnesses they might want to call. are you willing of senator mcconnell were to say, sure, we will do some of your witnesses, but you have to do some of ours -- >> senator schumer: i think the trial should be focused on the facts that the house presented. not on conspiracy theories that some established liars put forward, and somebody says, lets hear if the conspiracy theory is correct which has no relevance to the facts, so we ought to stick to the facts. if there are other witne...

Have a lengthy trial, because he wants the facts out there. he has never to this moment been able to present his side of the story. on the other hand, i have heard mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham and other say it shorter trial would serve the interests of the country better. maybe they are right. this is a very divisive process. spilling can i ask you one last question before chuck schumer gets underway? if van drew, the democratic congressman from new jersey does switch parties, will the rep...

That the american people judge it to be fair. a fair trial is one where senators get all the facts and one that allows them to adjudicate the case impartially. two weeks ago now i told leader mcconnell that i was ready to discuss trial rules. instead of talking to me, he spoke publicly about what a trial may look like. and said that he was taking his cues from the white house. it was very partisan, very slanted, very unfair. so to get things back on track, i sent a letter to leader mcconnell las...

Interested in the facts and not having these witnesses come forward now, and remember, the standard at a trial is different than the standard when a prosecutor, in this case the house impeachment authority puts together a case. a trial is a place for witness witnesses. >> do you have now or are you confident that you will have the support from 51 senators? >> i expect to have the support from democrats and republicans, because the argument is so strong. and many republicans have voiced to me and...

Republican leadership has even refused to work with democrats on bipartisan solutions to secure our elections and deter foreign adversaries from interfering in our elections. all the productive activity in the congress is coming out of the house. the senate remains a legislative graveyard for so many different issues. now on impeachment. as you know, the house is expected to vote on the articles of impeachment this week. assuming the articles are adopted by the house, the senate will serve as a ...

Decisions like that. >> and as chris wallace pointed out, this came on the immediate heels of the shellac he over the handling of the hillary clinton investigation. so the idea that you are going to take one that is even more politically sensitive and then not be involved at all, it is just very hard to believe. >> dana: lesson taught something that we just heard. this is from senator schumer, and just in this hour he has laid out what he is calling for in regards to a senate trial on impeachmen...

I havent seen you in a while and i love having these discussions with you, you said theres a silver lining, what is it? >> in the end, our hearts are empty until we fill them with something big enough and i think only god can do that and i think human beings will always search and ultimately will find it if they are open. >> harris: jonathan morris, thank you. here is dana. >> fox news alert, keeping watch on two big events in our nations capital. first, president trump is holding an event on in...

Asking, what is the president hiding? why doesnt he want the facts to come out? in their investigation, the house compiled and completed an enormous amount of evidence in support of the articles of impeachment. but as i said, some applying republican colleagues are saying there is not enough evidence, the trial structure i outlined in my leader to mcconnell will ensure all the facts come out. so in the coming weeks, senators, particularly republican senators will have a choice, do they want a fa...

At schumers news conference. we are waiting for this to get under way, what do you expect? >> we expect chuck schumer to kind of run through what this memorandum was like that he sent to the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday as to what his demands are for a senate trial. he laid out some calendar dates that may be starting on the sixth with housekeeping bringing over the chief justice and swearing and the senators and jurors on the 7th of january and then getting to the house mana...

Reached in 1999 with regards to not agreeing on witnesses right away, but having votes on those later. those are two very different processes. and schumer is bucking the 1999 process. >> dana: so people who were there on capitol hill whether you are a staffer or i was there in 98, but if you were paying attention then, you could basically take the memory is no man put it on the other side of each other, and they were saying different things back then then they are now, what do you think about th...