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>> there is no leverage that nancy pelosi has in the senate whatsoever, if she wants leverage in the senate she should have run for the senate from california. the truth is that the speaker of the house is not a member of the senate, so this is a confusing time in politics for all of us. democrats, republicans alike, have one thing in common. we are all confused by the actions of nancy pelosi. if this was seriously an emergency for the american people to see come to conclusion you would expect t...

Big of a positive as when the years when suddenly you get your quarterly or annual retirement statement, and suddenly its dropped and thats a big negative and so thats what would push somebody -- neil: you certainly notice it. >> when it goes down. neil: and its out on the incumbent party right? >> and we dont know that its up 30%. they just know they open their statement its bigger than the last one you throw it in the trash. neil: is it your sense that that holds? i mean the president has got ...

>> it is as if the house voted to impeach, and now they dont want to send it over to the senate, and your viewers, all probably are familiar with a grand jury. this would be like they are serving on a grand jury voting to indict somebody, but then the paperwork never gets finished, doesnt get sent to the court so there cant be a trial. >> the house is now out of session until january so that means nothing will be heading to the senate over the holidays in negotiations between now and then. neil:...

As opposed to having the senator s do or supposed to do as jurors, take the information, make a decision and move on, and unfortunately, for speaker pelosi, she a, has no leverage and b, it makes no sense and c, the information that she has provided is neither clear or compelling. neil: let me ask you this and weve gotten into this before, about misdemeanor and the president always said the phone call with the ukraine president was a perfect call. many of your colleagues have said well, it might...

Talking about other positive things, like their policies or how they would change the lives of the american people, if they were in the presidency. they are going to be talking instead, more about something where the support for it is dropping. neil: you know the leverage argument. what you get for delaying it if youre nancy pelosi. no matter your politics on this, that where is the upside in pushing this back, or extracting or trying to do concessions if im mitch mcconnell and i say fine, we th...

And get a lot of things done, also appears to be hijacking some of the democrats agenda to attract voters outside of that base. and he passed congress for paid family leave for workers and democrats are trying to prove that they can walk and chew gum at the same time. as i stress its not a herculean difficult task. the fact that each side is reminding the other and the country that other stuff is getting done is said to be a net benefit to both. that the way its going to sort out? back with us, ...

Impeachment, she wants to know more about how majority leader mitch mcconnell plans to run the trial. democrats want new additional witnesses to testify including acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton, but since president trump wants the impeachment trial to be over as soon as possible, democrats are hoping they can get leverage by waiting to send the articles over to the senate. >> we at least want a fair trial. this is the only way we...

Coaster lately. but mostly, that he is really angry which we just saw. what are you hearing about the overall mood of the president? those around him and how he is handling this? >> well, he was a little surprised that democrats actually had the votes to impeach him in the house. he expected that more democrats would turn against their own leaders and vote to acquit him. and so some of his top advisors, like eric yuland, had to tell him the reality which is that democrats were going to stick tog...

Says know more about why president trump withheld this aid to ukraine, he wants that agreement up front. so what we dont know yet is whether any witnesses will be called. any witnesses will cross that threshold, on their way to the senate floor. thats the big question. and of course, that determines how long the senate trial will last. >> youre talking about witnesses and you talk about leverage, there is new polling out overnight that shows a majority of americans, a slim majority, but a majori...

Be barricade. im talking politics, barbara. 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 ...