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Grieving over. this thanksgiving was really hard and christmas is harder. and im going to go back to doing my job. if he thinks hes going to keep me from doing my job, im going to be right back at it when i leave here. >> you know, michigan republican congressman fred upton called for an apology tweeting, i always looked up to john dingell, my good friend and great michigan legend. there was no need to dis him in a crass political way. most unfortunate and an apology due. that message to the whi...

Prosecutors investigation. with president clinton, the independent counsels inquiry had been under way literally for years before the house judiciary committee actually dug in. mountains of evidence. mountains. mountains of testimony from firsthand fact witnesses. serious legal battles to get what was necessary. this time around, house democrats skipped all of that. just 12 weeks. 12 weeks. more than a year of hearings for nixon, multiple years of investigation for clinton, and theyve impeached ...

Recently talking about the current possibility of the senate trial. >> i am not going to support witnesses being called for by the president. im not going to support witnesses being call for by senator schumer. were going to vote on the same product the house used. >> obviously, a difference there. i wonder, in private conversations, have any of your gop colleagues said theyd support calling witnesses? youd only need a handful to join with democrats in a simple majority vote to call for witness ...

So shes ratcheting up the rhetoric on that. i think democrats have to follow the great poet robert frost and say the only way out is through. only way out of this impeachment process is going through it. and that means the senate trial, even if its an imperfect one. >> there you go. context, history important in all of this. douglas brinkley, thank you. >> noting the history there. and theres a lot of it. speaker pelosi and democratic leader chuck schumer set to meet today to talk next steps. in...

Crimes and misdemeanors according to democrats. this wasnt just a few people. scores -- scores of democrats voted to move forward with impeachment on three of those prior occasions. so lets be clear. the houses vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment that democrats came to with great reluctance. it was the predetermined end of a partisan crusade that began before president trump was even nominated, let alone sworn in. for the very first time in modern history, weve seen a political faction ...

Articles, two of impeachment. theyre fundamentally unlike any articles that any other house of representatives has ever passed. the first article concerns the core events which house democrats claim are impeachable. the timing of aid to ukraine. but it does not even purport to allege any actual crime. instead, they deployed a vague phrase, abuse of power. abuse of power. to impugn the presidents action in a general indeterminant way. speaker pelosis house just gave in to a temptation that every ...