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Trial withholding the articles of impeachment. 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 -- the leverage they have is whats happening right now. were discussing it. we probably would not if they had sent them over. >> true. good point. if the trump administration and senate majority leader mcconnell are unwilling to work with senate democrats, what recourse do you think democrats have? >> legally, theres al...

Have, what mcconnell is going to do. whatever leverage speaker pelosi thinks she will will not be enough to peel off the four republicans she needs. a lot of messaging in the end. well have the president making the terms. mcconnell falling in line and his caucus falling in line behind him. >> so you have the process. look, the process is important when the talking about something as historic as this, yes, but also the undercurrent of all of this. what is important. where this all began. which is...

If they can get four to come over, theyll have a majority for the procedures. as we said off the top, president trump is doing his best to try to keep everyone, all the republicans in line and keep that 53-vote majority. really its going to come down to a question of political leverage more than legal leverage. >> and of course, ron, there is a four get obviously documents and witnesses. one witness who democratic lawmakers would like to get on the stand is john bolton. ambassador bolton sat dow...

Over, they will have a majority for the procedures but president trump is doing his best to try to keep everyone, all the republicans, in line and keep that 53-vote majority so really it is going to come down to a question of political leverage more than legal leverage. >> theres a push to get documents an witnesses. one witness who democratic lawmakers like to get on the stand is former national security adviser bolton. ambassador bolton sat down with ax ios bashing the trump administration sta...

The managers are generally the members of the house who will present the case against the president to the senate. >> looks like pelosi not in any rush to send those articles over to the senate. kristen holmes, thanks so much. lets bring in elie honig to discuss more on everything impeachment. he is a former federal prosecutor and a cnn legal analyst. good morning and happy holidays. thanks for coming in on christmas. >> no problem, alison. thanks for having me. >> talk about nancy pelosis str...

Misbehave. >> that is true and china has been assisting north korea in getting around sanctions imposed by the un, by the united states and thats one issue. the south koreans have been meeting with the north koreans and doing things the united states has not been in terms of how we increase leverage on north korea and whether they are giving too much and to return for nothing. the president has been successful in preventing these testings for a while now but if it goes forward their need to be c...

>> thats true, and china has been assisting north korea in getting around sanctions imposed by the u.n., by the united states. so thats one issue. but the other is that they have actually been meeting with the north koreans and doing things with the united states has not been involved in in terms of how we increase our leverage on north korea, giving too much in return for nothing. the president has been successful at preventing testing for a while now. however, if it goes forward, there do have...

Trial in the constitution so she keeps claiming this is not about politics, this is not about democrats going after the president but doing the right thing but if she continues this game of withholding the articles to try and get what she wants in the senate after the house did not do all the work that they think the trial should include, her game is exposed is not have much stand up. >> democrats the power in the house and have very little in the senate so pelosi may be trying to help with the ...

Is not about politics. this is not about democrats going after the present. its about when the right thing. she is withholding the articles to try to do dumb i get what she wants >> mike: it struck me that the democrats had all the power in the house and now have very little to presented. nancy pelosi may be trying to help with a little bit of leverage for chuck schumer. is it working? >> its not going to work. it isnt working now. democrats who were in difficult districts to win, districts that...

Dangerous is that the only real leverage north korea has over the u.s. is the testing of missiles and possible nuclear weapons. tom? >> matt gutman reporting from seoul, south korea, tonight. matt, thank you. now to the clashes between protesters and riot police in hong kong. officers beating demonstrators with batons at a shopping mall. one person fleeing, knocking down an officer. the disturbing moment caught on camera. he appears to have gone right over a railing, ending up on the level bel...