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Arms control expert, and hes found that the north koreans will expanding a factory with ballistic missile production. then subsequently, planet labs photos showed improvements to the site. and this happens to be a site that kim visited back in december 2017 in preparation for the last launch. so bottom line, analysts believe this is yet another sign that the north is moving toward testing long-range nuclear capable missiles. >> which is interesting, because all of the pieces of the puzzle pint t...

Possibly incriminating evidence come out? >> thats a possibility. were in a holding pattern anyway for these two weeks. so if she feels the holding back of naming the managers for the impeachment process and not sending over the articles gives her time, gives chuck schumer time to negotiate a deal that will let there be more witnesses in the senate, the then thats a potential leverage that she can try to use. i think it really depends, though, on what the president ends up doing, because youve g...

Process. do you think shes playing this correctly? >> no, i dont. i dont think the speaker has much leverage at all here actually. i think this is a tactical error. the speaker has taken a hostage. theres an old saying, dont take a hostage if youre not prepared to shoot it. she is not going to shoot these articles of impeachment. she will transmit them to the senate at some point. that said, i do think that the senate should not rush to trial. i think they should hear from some witnesses, but pe...

Pelosi and mitch mcconnell. >> our founders, when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president. i dont think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. >> some house democrats imply theyre withholding the articles for some kind of leverage so they can dictate the senate process to senators. i admit, im not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. >> yes, big...

Articles of impeachment over in the senate. theres a standoff going on, but i think that were hearing increasingly that its unclear what leverage democrats really have right now over mitch mcconnell. they had this big vote, sort of had this momentum in terms of unifying their own party and impeaching the president, but it seems like theyve almost tripped themselves up and opened themselves up to these a allegations that republicans are making, that theyre playing politics with impeachment and tr...

Thursday. the first time they sat down with one another to discuss this matter. it didnt go very far. senator schumer said to senator mccconnell, ill let you think this over. i can understand speaker pelosi would like to have some idea of how this case is going to be presented. its not unreasonable. >> its not unreasonable but do you think she and you and democrats have leverage here. all right. you dont send them to me, all right, ill move on and do more judges. >> dana, our leverage is four re...

White house chief of staff under president george w. bush and fox news contributor. >> merry christmas. ed: what can you make as a political strategist? i know you dont support nancy pelosi, but as strategist what in the world is she trying to get done? >> as they said leverage. the problem she has no leverage. think about this the constitution says the house shall have the sole power to impeachment. the senate shall quote, have the sole power to try impeachment. so she has no constitutional rol...

Analyst, juan williams. former dnc chair, donna brazile. and jason riley. your views on house speaker pelosis decision and turns over the articles of impeachment over to the senate. does she have any leverage. >> shy is one of the smartest leaders in the country. she was boxed in. i think she made a huge error the way she dealt with the immediate post impeachment reality. this this is extending this out is not in the interest of democrats make up house of representatives. democrats from trump fr...

Bit after victory lap. pointing out he had unanimous republican support against impeachment in the house. >> what kind of great support did we have from those incredible congressman and women this week. they got up and they spoke. [cheering] they were fantastic. i guess the vote was 196-0. we had three democrats coming to our side. we have to say it was a bipartisan vote. reporter: in washington house speaker nancy pelosi is still withholding the articles of impeachment from the senate, delaying...

About the division in this country but became very clear there was danger to our national security. there was a danger to our democracy. and that is why, our aware of what is happening, have to protect it as we go into the next years election. chris: you certainly would agree, there is always delay between christmas an new years, nancy pelosi made it clear hoping to hold it up it is creating leverage to allow chuck schumer to make a deal with mitch mcconnell on the ground rules for the trial. th...