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Case. they are going to go from there. thats how he sets it back. >> yeah, this whole thing has been so extraordinary. the fact that nancy herself said that shes been working on impeachment for two and a half years, yet this phone call that has suddenly caused -- i have to say that the most astonishing unfair and brazen moved by the constitution that has happened through the entire process is this notion that nancy pelosi, speaker of the house has some input or some role in the senates trying of...

>> she has no leverage whatsoever. the senate doesnt even want to hold a trial, so if she wants to hold the articles of impeachment until the middle of next year they are fine with it. so no pressure, no leverage and no constitutional role in determining how the senate carries out its case. if they are going to have a trial, the leader they have it the better. they would love to have a trial in the middle of january or maybe february because all the caucuses and primaries are going on. the later...

Leverage to allow witness testimony. >> he has a responsibility to conduct the trial in a way that allows the facts to be heard and let other people make up their own minds even though his is closed. >> former national security advisor, john bolton. among other senior officials, witnesses who can testify as to why the administration withheld aid to ukraine. he has called the impeachment a charade. alaska senator, lisa murkowsk lisa murkowski -- >> if it means that i am viewed as one who looks op...

Need for an actual trial in the senate. brad blakeman served as assistant to george w. bush and advisor in the bush-cheney campaign. he joins us thought. seems like nancy pelosi is trying to gain some leverage here and control what the senate is going to do. you argue the senate has a lot of options here. >> they sure do. and nancy pelosi has no leverage over the senate. mitch mcconnell did not nose his way into the impeachment process in the house. and she has no standing to do that in the sena...

Making about the significant of what lisa murkowski had to say. do you want other republicans to follow her lead? >> the one thing that we dont know right now is where the votes are for we dont know how many senators would vote to go forward without witnesses. she was buying time for mcconnell and schumer to work out a deal that would be beneficial to democrats and mcconnell to figure out where his votes were. she is just not giving up that leverage. the question about what murkowski said is is ...

What do we offer this em? how do we use china as leverage to get to that point? i dont see any answers yet. >> there are no good answers and weve been saying it around the table for some time now. ma mark, north korea is not going to give up their nuclear weapons. whatever comes out of this, denuclearization will not be the result. barack obama told donald trump that he could complain about obamacare all he wanted to during the transition, he said this to him, you said, but its going to be north...

Representatives, judiciary committee and others tried to get documents from the white house. they were blocked by the white house itself. thats the context you have to look at this in. thats not a compelling argument for president trump since he was supported the blockade of documents, he didnt want those documents to go out or the witnesses to testify. the acting chief of staff is who chuk schumer wants to see on the senate side. remember, all the power is not in necessarily mitch mcconnells ha...

We saw them vote. we saw the majority vote for both articles. we saw nancy pelosi bring down her gavel and say the articles have passed. when that happens, hes impeached. law scholars are getting creative here. i get it. maybe it makes for on interesting law review article. in the real world when you have the answer on the face of the constitution, thats your answer. >> ron, what is speaker pelosis strategy here? do you think its working? >> well, i think its their one point of leverage, really,...

Articles of impeachment. now, obviously they have to send them sooner or later because they want the senate to have a trial. but this period really allows them to, you know, the leverage they have is whats happening right now. were discussing it. we probably would not be discussing it as much if we had sent them over. >> true. if the trump administration and senate majority leader mcconnell are unwilling to work with democrats, what legal recourse or leverage do you think democrats have? >> lega...

Last week, vote, saw the majority vote for both article, we saw nancy pelosi bring down the gavel and say the articles have passed. when that happens, he is impeached. law scholars are getting creative here. thats not the real world. when you have the answer on the face of the constitution, thats your answer. >> ron, what is speaker pelosis strategy here? do you think its working? >> i think its a one point of leverage really to force discussion of the remarkable kind of acquiesce to the white h...