that looks fair to us. hopefully, it will be fair. and when we see what that is, we ll send it. reporter: to give a behind-the-scenes explanation, this is in part of a leverage play. mitch mcconnell has made clear, he does not believe any witnesses should be brought forth in a trial. he s willing to have the first stage of a trial take place and if members want witnesses to come, perhaps hold votes on whether they want to hear from the witnesses. those votes will be on a fla threshold. republicans have 63% of the senate. however, mcconnell and democratic leader, chuck schumer, still need to meet. they have a sitdown to agree with what the rules of the road will be. what pelosi is doing, saying she will not send over the articles of impeachment until she has an understanding of whether that process will be fair, is giving
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likely come after that. when are the articles of impeachment being sent over? according to the speaker, that s an open question. we have legislation that would enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side. and i hope that will be soon, as we did with our legislation, our resolution 660, to describe what the process would be. so far, we haven t seen anything that looks fair to us. hopefully, it will be fair. and when we see what that is, we ll send up our managers. reporter: to give a behind-the-scenes explanation, this is in part of a leverage play. mitch mcconnell has made clear, he does not believe any witnesses should be brought forth in a trial. he s willing to have the first stage of a trial take place and if members want witnesses to come, perhaps hold votes on
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would enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side. and i hope that will be soon, as we did with our legislation, our resolution 660, to describe what the process would be. so far, we haven t seen anything that looks fair to us. hopefully, it will be fair. and when we see what that is, we ll send up our managers. reporter: to give a behind-the-scenes explanation, this is in part of a leverage play. mitch mcconnell has made clear, he does not believe any witnesses should be brought forth in a trial. he s willing to have the first stage of a trial take place and if members still want witnesses to come, perhaps hold votes on whether they want to hear from the witnesses. those votes will be on a threshold. republicans have 53 seats in the senate. if mcconnell gets his way. however, mcconnell and democratic leader, chuck schumer, still need to meet. they have a sitdown to agree with what
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