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The access to him is pretty much more wide open than when at the white house and all of his aides and advisors are around to control that. trump has not always been in lockstep with his legal team. his legal team seems to be more in line with mitch mcconnells thinking in terms of keeping this small and tight and witnesses out of it if they can. the president has taken to twitter and said give me the whistleblower and hunter biden and you cant get those two -- i dont think there would be 51 repub...

Everyones hometown saying im innocent, they got nothing on me. >> so thats the issue? >> that is the leverage. >> it will be an interesting state of the union, thats for sure. >> to be sure. >> thank you all. great to talk to you. thank you. the u.s. economy remains strong as we close out the year. obviously president trump and his supporters believe that this helps him a lot, but what are the real indicators? were going to dig into the numbers next. breakfast in bed! just add ground coffee fo...

Mean if all democrats voted yes, four republicans would have to vote with them? perhaps, but even that doesnt guarantee that they would feel comfortable coming forward given what the trump administration edict is, which is no. >> what do you think, matt, when you look at that. it seems a bit more than coincidental. >> it seems awfully coincidental. i think it had already been very clearly established that donald trump, of course, tried to coerce the leader of ukraine to announce an investigation...

Close to the vest. and i think shes got leverage in the sense that, you know, mitch mcconnell plays a very tough guy when he says he doesnt want to do it at all. hes going to sort of have it all his own way. but hes got members of his conference facing re-election. theyve got some concerns. theyve got some problems. they need to make sure it looks fair as far as their constituents are concerned. and so nancy pelosi is well aware of this. and i think shes going to use that to her advantage as wel...

Happened? >> this is also based on the guidance i received? who gave you that and when? and what did they tell you about why it was being frozen? >> kwquickly before we go, nanc pelosi is withholding these impeachment declarations right now. what is her leverage over the senate? >> well, its -- she -- lets put it this way. she started with no leverage and she created out of nothing limited leverage. will she be able to withhold these indefinitely? of course not. but was she able to set this and ...

Leverage is. were getting word mitch mcconnell is on fox saying the american people should decide this in an election not through an impeachment process. this is obviously a real game of negotiation going on. what leverage does nancy pelosi really have? >> what does she have to lose right now? we have a christmas break and then she can kind of let the game play out a little bit i think for the next few weeks. its not at all clear legally that mcconnell can start this without her. theres legal de...

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 while i sat on the toi...

Really understand yet. the email revelations, while they dont blow open any kind of new narrative that we didnt understand at all, they raise some new questions about what we cant see. but they are obviously conversations that take place between that phone call and the time the emails were sent. >> to be clear, its 91 minutes between the time the president speaks to the president of ukraine and this email is sent. errol, real talk here. talking about pelosi trying to withhold the articles of imp...

Well, were going to hold up impeachment papers and articles of impeachment to send to the senate. how can you possibly justify the contrast to say this is urgent to then say, well, well have to wait and see. >> josh, you covered for the "washington post." the president wants a speedy trial. does that give him any leverage to force mcconnell to agree to anything or no? >> they want witnesses, to have hunter biden, to have others, they want adam schiff to testify. thats not going to happen, even i...

Deal moving forward. nancy pelosi wont send over the articles of impeachment until she knows what the process is going forward. she needs to meet with the impeachment managers, but the house has to vote on those impeachment managers and thats not happening until january 7 at the earliest. were looking at a prolonged stalemate, potentially. >> theyre both playing games of chicken. we were talking about how popular amongst voters, even though many dont support the impeachment of the president, a l...