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Shes afraid if she send these week articles, shes going to find him not guilty and be done with it all. nancy is making demands. mcconnell will have to run the trial her way or else. sounds like nancy is the one demanding a quid pro quo. not how this works. the speaker doesnt get to set the terms. the house investigates and the senate judges. she doesnt have any leverage. the democrats have already denied due process and now they are denying our right to a speedy trial. par for the course. i tho...

Of the last three years of trying to overthrow the election of 2016 and at a minimum to sabotage the election of 2020. that will not happen. we will not let it happen. [cheering and applause] and if it did happen and if they were successful, they will destroy this country. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi is still withholding the articles of impeachment from the senates. this delays a trial they are. democrat subscribed the tactic as leverage to compel senate republicans to allow witnesses a...

>> why did she not hand the articles of impeachment over already? do we know? >> its partly reverence because she wants to have the trial, bipartisan deal reached in the 90s, finch mcconnell and chuck schumer have not been able to reach a deal. i dont think they feel. its basically think we are not going to give you these articles until you have some type of deal but mitch mcconnell said they had leverage and he actually does because he runs the senate, nancy pelosi. i think that sometime, democ...

Shes afraid s if she sends these weak articles, the senate is just going to find him not guilty and be done with it all. so nancys missing i demands. mcconnell has to run the trial her way or else. soundsds like nancys the one demanding more from quid pro quo. thats not how this works. the speaker, doesnt get to set the terms. the house investigates, and the senate judges. she doesnt have any leverage. the democrats have already denied due process and now they are denying him a right to a speedy...

Shes afraid if she send these week articles, shes going to find him not guilty and be done with it all. nancy is making demands. mcconnell will have to run the trial her way or else. sounds like nancy is the one demanding a quid pro quo. not how this works. the speaker doesnt get to set the terms. the house investigates and the senate judges. she doesnt have any leverage. the democrats have already denied due process and now they are denying our right to a speedy trial. par for the course. i tho...

To say is anyone playing optics with any of this stuff. look, i think nancy pelosi is trying to hold a little bit of leverage she has here. who knows how long this will last. she is trying to put as much pressure on mitch mcconnell in the senate as possible to hold a fair trial. public opinions polls in the recent weeks show it is 70% or so want witnesses to testify in this trial. so i think that emails we saw from omb coming out that you were talking about reaffirm that every a little bit of in...

The documents to get here, pelosi, what leverage does she have at that point? if she says im not negotiating, im not sitting here with chuck schumer saying who wrng-- you gg us two people, we want and well give you, you give me a couple of bidens and maybe a whistle-blower. he says im not going to negotiate that way, guys. whats the pelosi operation there going to look like? >> well, she doesnt have any formal leverage -- sorry, forgive me. i think she has no formal leverage. the only leverage s...

Possible that the senate doesnt offer up any concessions. they have been quite blunt about their plans to hold the quick trial that will exonerate this president. so it is going to be a tough situation when she doesnt if that happens get concessions, then she may have to move these without those. >> and what is your thought on the concessions, josh. does speaker pelosi get some or not or does she have to hand it over? how long does she stall? >> i dont think that shell get many. she may have som...

Pure politics right now. >> no, i hear you. her leverage, that is pretty straightforward to me. its the people. the people want to have witnesses. there are polls that show that. her other leverage is there are several members of the united states senate who know theyre in a tough spot. theyre up for election in purple states. they will fight for a fair trial. so i think the genius of this -- she wont wait forever, but the genius of this is to put the spotlight on the process, and if mitch mccon...

We know what we feel. he is distracted. how is he going to get anything else done? he has been impeached and there is no way else around it. >> he is ensconced in his mansion in florida. this is the only public event we have on the schedule over the course of the two weeks. there will be christmas parties and the lot down the a his club. they have not moved to the senate. there is a period of stasis here. what does that mean for the president and his supporters and his advisers having that? >> w...