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Speaker pelosi to withhold those articles of impeachment. democratic congressman early bloomenaur of oregon, and i appreciate your time, congressman. youve been a vocal backer of not sending those articles of impeachment to the senate until you know more about the trial there, right? including witnesses. do you have any information tonight on the timing of -- of when you think this will happen? those articles will go to the senate. >> speaker pelosi is a master of this process. she keeps her car...

Well, because thats not really how it works. you got to wonder whether a president who has just been impeached, only the third president to be impeached in this countrys history -- you got to wonder whether its such a good idea for him to be bringing up the exact thing that got him into so much trouble, a quid pro quo. that as pelosi and mitch mcconnell are locked in a standoff over the senate trial that the president -- well, at least thats what he says he wants. she says the house wont vote on...

Is questioning the leverage, but perhaps if he thought he was in the drivers seat did pelosi just put the breaks on that? >> i think so, she may have just called the audible, so to speak. i think it make have caught the senate leader as little bit by surprise. it certainly caught the nation by surprise. i also suspect that this is not done because she knows it will drive the president crazy to be caught in limbo, and she is trying to figure out what can i do to ensure credibility and that the se...

The begin a similar dispute with japan in the new year. and japan and south korea themselves are having disputes over trade and over intelligence sharing. so the american position in east asia has been weakened dramatically by the trump administration over the last two years. >> and when it comes directly to north korea, though, playing nice with kim jong-un clearly hasnt worked. i mean, hes gotten three face-to-face meetings, as you mentioned, with president trump. you know, gained legitimacy o...

That he sees there are few consequences? >> the bill is a result of government that doesnt do anything until last minute. everybody thinks theyre going to uphold and maintain leverage. we go to a shutdown. nobody wants to shut the government shutdown. its a broken way that we do budgeting. there are efforts to make it a two-year cycle. something else has to happen. this is way better than continuing resolutions which we were doing for a very long time, but its wrong. and the problem is were star...

Senate, she clearly does. and that leverage comes from the president himself. let me explain. because he is insisting that he wants a trial. he doesnt want the dark cloud of impeachment hanging over him. and that means mitch mcconnell is going to have to play ball to get the president what he wants even though the majority leader claims that he would be fine -- thats a quote. he would be fine if pelosi never submits the articles. it sure doesnt seem like the president would be fine with that. he...

House rules, president trump has been impeached. >> let me stay with you, stevens, and this holding of the articles, weve had hear from speaker pelosi saying that she wants to see the process before she assigns the managers. but this is what were hearing from democratic senator from maryland, chris van holland on his understanding of why the articles are being held. watch. >> what speaker pelosi is saying is that she wont transfer the articles of impeachment until we get assurances that there wi...

Will be bound by process questions. in other words, that their voters would want to say that they took the process seriously, that they wanted time for a deliberation rather than just to expedite this and get it over with. that is where democrats have some of this leverage right now. >> house democratic staff, they are working over the break. well see what happens when everyone comes back in january. margaret, always good to have you. >> thanks very much. according to aaa, a record number of a...

Now our vice president, and thats what i think, you know, the president has violated. thats why i think hes so scared because i think down deep, after all the obfuscation and everything else, he knows he committed an impeachable offense. i mean this is core impeachment, don. this is exactly what the founders put impeachment in the constitution for. >> neal, how do you see this pelosi/mcconnell standoff playing out because some people are saying, oh, she has leverage. others are saying she has no...

Just 12 days after senators were sworn in for his trial. the presidents state of the union, though, will undoubtedly take place against the backdrop of tensions between the white house and capitol hill. at the moment house speaker nancy pelosi is withholding those articles from the senate as leverage to try to get senate republicans to hold what democrats view as a fair trial, fred. >> so, sarah, what more can you tell us about a number now of jewish lawmakers calling on one of the presidents to...