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Own quid pro quo, acting if she the president of ukraine about has some role in the senate the holding up of a presidential trial. they had a weak case. meeting, about holding up of i think she knows they had a weak case. there was no evidence or crime aid. those witnesses need to be heard committed. in the united states senate. i think what leader assumer is yet they want to impeach the president to appease the radical base. that is what it is about from saying lets have at least those the begi...

To hold these out until february? >> unfortunately there are probably no good ideas left in this particular scenario. i do think its important if were going to call this a real trial that they -- that the senate lay out the rules that they expect this trial to proceed by. this is the little leverage that the speaker has shes trying to apply to her best ability and shes got to be careful not to get too far out of her skis because this could backfire for democrats. >> what leverage -- >> fair enou...

His innocence, he hasnt let come before congress. we can help use this as leverage to make the senate do the right thing. mitch mcconnell already said that hes working hand in hand with the white house on this. hes not an impartial juror. thats, again, breaking the rules that exist. >> an impeachment trial would get under way just as trump escalates his fight for a second term. hes set to launch an evangelicals for trump coalition in miami one week from tonight. thats on january 3rd, and then ho...

Republicans will do or tell her they will do in terms of rules and procedures for the senate trial before she appoints house managers and formally sends the case to the senate. i dont really realistically expect that to happen until the second to third week of january at the earliest. and from there, then the debate starts about whether its a te the betting -- the strong betting at this point being that its going to be much more on the shorter side. >> we do wait with baited breath to see how th...

Cant make fun of them. its too sensitive. in fact, you cant even call them chicks with [ bleep ]s anymore. [ laughter ] no. no. you have to call them men who talk too much. >> theres been so many dirty jokes so you cant do cliched [ bleep ] joke that everybody has heard before, cliche big pussy joke. you better do something fresh and new that nobodys ever talked about before. >> most women wont let their husbands watch when theyre going through a miscarriage. i sat my husband down in front of me...

Because shes of a different party when dealing with her senate colleagues. shes trying to use what little leverage she has to try to influence the shape and the rules of the trial in the senate. thats unprecedented because weve never had a divided congress in an impeachment process before. the second difference is that it looks as if leader mcconnell does not have the same relationship with the rest of his republican house colleagues thats similar to the relationship that leader trent lott had w...

Assurances that the senate trial wont be a sham, if it takes until nebraska to get that, so be it. is it smart for the democrats to drag out impeachment until friday or maybe later? >> no, martin, i dont think is that smart. i dont think he has a lot of respect for the trial. the hearing loss damages here are the articles of impeachment. she is not going to shoot this hostage, she might be able to delay the trial, but at the end of the day the senate runs the senate and the house runs the house,...

Going and he has scoffed at democrats attempts at using leverage in sending over those articles of impeachment, saying hes not interested in those at all. so there are a lot of questions going forward as the standoff continues. one, will there be witnesses in this trial? two, will there be document subpoenas? three, when exactly will this trial take place and how long will it last? and maybe most immediately, when will those two articles of impeachment be transmitted? last night on cnn the democ...

Mitch mcconnell when she presided over the most unfair hearing in the history of the united states congress. speaker pelosi fired back on twitter. she is showing no signs of when shes transmit the articles. while he is impatient to get on to the start of the trial, mitch mcconnell showing ambivalence claiming pelosi is not exercising leverage over senate republicans by with holding something they would rather not deal with in the first place. >> for us in west palm beach, thank you.

Mcconnell would like to be over as quickly as possible. >> yeah, listen, i agree with sarah that he does want to be a circus. i dont think that he wants his children to be the third ring of that circus, but he wants to be about issues, not about himself, about joe biden and hunter biden. the leverage that nancy pelosi and the democrats have at that point, the strongest leverage is the disconnect between president trump and mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell wants to more anything protect his vulne...