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President? >> itll go to senate and be very different if we actually wound up with removal of a president, the ultimate dramatic conclusion i think the act of impeaching and saying, we have put this down in history books, many voters who say, look, issues like health care, issues like the economy are top for me, i dont understand why congress is spending so much effort on this, i wish we could get back to the things that matter to me, i think thats the big risk for democrats. chris: chuck, lets ...

Whether he could back them into the corruption, but the only to decide this is the truth. >> and congressman schiff appeared to lay the groundwork for the articles of impeachment, and lets play what he said on that. >> there is a sense of urgency when you have a president who is threatening the integrity of the elections that we need to act now if we are going to act and we cant allow this obstruction to succeed. the case of the ukraine misconduct is iron clad, but so is the case of the presiden...

Prosecutor, their dealings with the prosecutor and with the former president of ukraine. so it remains to be seen but what we do know from the reporting is the idea that joe biden was engaged himself in some kind of quid pro quo, the unsubstantiated allegation the going to appear when the impeachment moves to the senate. that is how the republicans are planning to defend the president essentially by -- by bringing in witnesses that can talk about this alleged, you know, extortion by the vice pre...

Thats a reflection of what we heard in the testimony. its more of a reflection of the fact that republicans have been through a lot of these scandals with the president before. and theyre not confident that this is going to be the one that is going to change the presidents level of support among either his base or among enough independents that it will make a difference for him. >> lets play what will herd said, what abby said there. it raises the key question about all of this now. play that. >...

>> lets play devin nunes and adam schiff, the way they closed out the inquiries. >> what youve seen in this room over the past two weeks is a show trial, exploiting the intelligence committee as a venue for impeachment has been one of the grossest processes. >> if my view theres nothing more dangerous than an an unethical president who believes theyre above the law. i would just say to people here at home and around the world, in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that. >> so? >...

>> thats not good. but in terms of why hes saying what hes saying about ambassador sondland, michael cohen hes my lawyer talk to him. michael cohen, he was never by lawyer. rudy giuliani, great man. hes my lawyer. is he still my lawyer? i dont know. youre going to have to talk to rudy. kaitlan collins, thank you very much. this president knows when you are in trouble, get away from the people who are part of the trouble. joining us now to discuss, staff writer for the new yorker and cnn global a...

Exchange between congressman ma lonnie and sondland later on in the testimony, very tough, where sondland essentially at that point, again who seemed pleased with himself and happy to be there, the role that he has portrayed himself to be in of the truth teller. he was there. maloney really pushed back on him and well get that byte in a moment. maloney pushed back and said look, it took you three tries to get this -- to the dreg that you have it. lets play -- lets play that exchange. >> hold on,...

There was -- you know, they didnt even make one effort to work through proper channels with her on this, which is why shes so confused. >> exactly. and, you know, they had this sidebar channel and lets be clear, it didnt work. thats part of why you had to do these other things and get the three amigos involved later in the story. i think its really, really important for people to understand the phone call was mid-stream in the drug deal, as mr. ambassador bolton calls it, right? its just one pla...

>> exactly. exactly. >> especially, the minute it is set, thats when you should bet against it. right? so everybody assumes we know what the answer is. carol lee, mitch mcconnell, the only person more transactional than donald trump is mitch mcconnell. whatever protects his majority. >> hes going to do whatever is in his partys interest. >> senators are not looking so great in polls in the last couple weeks. i mean, their numbers have been trending downwards and i think thats one of the reasons ...

Like, she didnt need a lawyer to tell her that. she knew immediately. >> so what it did was kind of try to like take out any of the political bend that perhaps republicans were trying to put in or -- or, you know, put in her mouth, her words, or whatever. and it wound up being quite effective. i think the white house, theyre probably wondering whether or not they should schedule more world leader visits so the president will stay out of impeachment as he did on wednesday while he had other busin...