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Tim alberta examines trumps obsession with possible defectors and whether any of them would actually turn against their own party and president on an impeachment vote. he writes, "venting privately about the president has become a hallowed pastime in republican-controlled washington, a sort of ritualistic release for those lawmakers routinely defending the indefensible. but its also evident that barring a plain admission of guilt by the president himself, think jack nicholson in a few good men, ...

To prepare their defense of president trump with televised impeachment hearings less than a week away. but ever since house speaker nancy pelosi announced the normal impeach. inquiry republicans republicans have spent the past month -- in a new piece from politico magazine titled who will betray trump tim alberta examines trumps obsession with possible defectors and whether any of them would actually turn against their own party and president on impeachment vote. venting privately about the pres...

Their own party and president on impeachment vote. writing, venting privately about the president has become a hallowed pastime in republican controlled washington, a sort of ritualistic release for those lawmakers tasked with routinely defending the indefensible. but its also evidence that barring a plain admission of guilt by the president himself, think jack nicholson in "a few good men," the republican party will not be forsaking trump. joining us now, jennifer rubin and tim miller. jennifer...

The republican, as you well know for the last month and a half have struggled to try to defend the indefensible. we also know that rudy giuliani, while as reckless as he has been was working directly at the direction of the president, and so, but i think the best person who gives us the most convincing firsthand knowledge is the president himself. if you read the readout of the call the president himself talks about i need you to do me a favor, though, to president zelensky and then goes into in...

Night. >> when did senator lynn change his testimony? was there a connection between sondland and those on the committee. i have been a lawyer for a very long time and when someone changes their testimony and they take back something they said before. >> he meant sondland when he said sunderland. a major trump donor, he gave a million dollars to the inauguration. now the argument is that he is in cahoots with democrats? >> i think it is a desperate attempt to defend the indefensible. right? the ...

York, and he walks into a foreign government situation in ukraine and hes saying im here as the presidents lawyer but then were told everybody in the state department is supposed to obey him. by him he was taking orders from the state department a wild ago. its all intrigue. >> and he hsays defend his client. defend his client? >> why is he changing his story? >> because how do you defend the indefensible. and the notion he was trying to root out corruption, if that was the case why were they on...

Let me give you the last word on that, robert costa. >> you are just seeing a republican party right now in the wake of the political race in kentucky for governor, and the suburban defeats in places like the philadelphia suburbs on edge. but they have a limited options in their view when you talk to them privately about how to handle the coming year. and so they are just not wanting to talk about the actual impeachment investigation. and instead looking for ways to either duck and cover or just...

Constitutional responsibility to provide checks and balances and to remove from office a man who has thoroughly abused the public trust. >> right. and weve got plenty of time down the road to see if they actually do that. but, jennifer, this is sunday. and all over the sunday shows are republicans out there. kellyanne conway being chief among them as we just saw, out there defending the -- defending the president. to my mind, defending the indefensible. and i say its indefensible because weve wa...

Just be the facts, which by the way most of us have known largely since day one what happens then? >> well, i think theyre in a heap of trouble, but they were already in a heap of trouble. we have reached a pretty bad point when don youngs head butt may have been the most honest response in that whole lot of evasions. i was thinking about that old police song when i saw that series of words -- thats all i have to say to you. they have nothing to say because they know that they are being asked to...

Indefensible. i think this is about right and wrong. and i think the american people understand right and wrong. i think its important that we give to them, let them hear for themselves the testimony, and i think that we have already been presented with a lot of testimony that has been leaked or the opening statements have been presented, that it has a very damning case against the president. >> what role should public opinion play here? >> public opinion is everything. speaker pelosi often quot...