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Him, gave the order to don mcgann and actually refuse to carry that out so there are certainly questions and of course weve been wanting to hear from don mcgann for some time. >> leland: the president works best when he has a foil, he loves using nancy pelosi as a foil and she just gave him another couple of weeks to do it. >> first of all, she has no leverage. the speaker cannot order the senate to do anything procedurally or otherwise with regard to a trial. >> leland: does this move of trying...

>> 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...

It grants the senate the "sole power to try impeachment." and yet, nancy pelosi is trying to use "leverage" to get her way and get the senate to do things that the house was unable or unwilling to do for the issue of impeachment. the more he goes on, the more petty, the more political, more partisan it looks. not good for the country, not good for the democrat party to be stuck in the netherworld. the extremes on both sides, partisans on both sides are revved up. the people in the middle, swing ...

Witnesses. so what speaker pelosi is doing here reflects the fact that she knows once the articles are sent over, democrats lose a lot of leverage because they have to depend on the mercy of two to three sympathetic republicans who would have to agree with them to dig in their heels and say we want witnesses and we want those witnesses. >> so a week after new years, who is winning? can they both sustain the standoff, both pelosi and mcconnell? >> trump has what richard nixon could only have drea...

Stretch of water between mainland russia and the crimean peninsula. its known as the kerch strait. you can see why russia would want to build a bridge there, right? not only does it give you easy access to the crimean peninsula, it also gives you huge leverage in terms of controlling everything that comes and goes into the sea of azov. by being the sole proprietor of that bridge, you become the gate agent to that entire body of water and all the ports that are inside of it. so its no wonder at a...

Sglirl >> its unclear to me. the leverage partly is on the politics for the four or five republican senators who may have to sweat this in a vote. and partly just on the presidents purse naltd, how much he starts beating down mcconnells door to work mcconnell over to allow witnesses. >> and its pretty clear from the rants at his rallies anducter places, that he could do even more foolish things or make more gestures that are very bad. aming the house democrats there were some sentiment to withho...

Reasons that we know. and i would add also, chris, that i think speaker pelosi had another reason here beyond putting leverage on majority leader mcconnell and on driving donald trump batty, which is that as every day goes by, we have more incriminating and damning information. we had another story from the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington that trumps business and trump manipula manipulated tariffs to argentina while he awaited trademarks and then released it or brought the t...

Institute and co-author of "one nation after trump." cheryl, let me start with you. im curious what your reporting indicates about how this is being viewed on the hill. i think first there was some idea like what exactly is pelosi doing here and what has become clear over the last few days is its driving the president batty, and that is going to produce its own kind of pressures on the hill given how obsessed the president seems to be. >> well, thats exactly right. its frankly a little hard to t...

And it could not have occurred without the full knowledge and consent and direction of the crown prince as well as several others who have now been let off the hook. >> it obviously puts the united states in general, not just this administration, in a difficult position. let me read for you, sir, what adam schiff had to say today about the verdict. he essentially said "the intelligence authorization act includes a provision i authored requiring the director of national intelligence to provide a ...

Administration, in a difficult position. let me read for you, sir, what adam schiff had to say today about the verdict. he essentially said "the intelligence authorization act includes a provision i authored requiring the director of national intelligence to provide a report to congress within 30 days about current or former saudi officials who played a role or who had advance knowledge of khashoggis murder, and requires the names to be provided in an unclassified format unless it would reveal s...