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Whos been following all of this. what do we get a sense is pelosis plan? >> pelosis plan, kendis, use the reser leverage while she has it. once over to the senate, the house part is done and democrats have majority of the house wont have a lot of influence how it plays out. to the extent she has leverage now in terms of times when democrats in the house move to actually send the articles of impeachment over to the senate, she wants to hold those back to see what kind of concessions democrats can...

If she says im not negotiating, im not sitting here with chuck schumer oh, you give 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 she has is to hope theres a response from the senate and eventually to impeach when the ti...

Democrats havent and dont up against the guy who special eyes in political hardball. it depends on who plays the game the best. nancy pelosi is right. she said already, hes not going to conduct this in a way that is impart al. she is challenging that why the house did what he did. shes going to do thinks might gain her a little bit of leverage in order to establish some rules and an agreement perhaps that there be witnesses called. it could blow up in her face the problem is that, yes, mitch mcc...

Those witnesses and they wont compel those witnesses. nancy pelosi says look, privately, this is the leverage that they have right now. to demand these witnesses up front, before they send the articles over to the senate where theoretically if republicans stood together in a party line vote, they could all agree to dispense of this trial. without hearing from any witnesses. so right now pelosi wants to hear from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, a commitment to call some of the people who ...

Lot of leverage. they are really depending, once they send those articles over, on at least a couple republicans digging their feet in with democrats and saying, here is what we want in the rules, here is what we want on the witnesses. but for democrats to assume that one or two or three republicans are going to really dig in and buck their party and their majority leader and insist on the same witnesses the democrats want, well, they just dont see that happening, so they see their leverage righ...

Businessman trump spinning theories as he did about my former boss barack obama. so im sure he has decided this is way to use leverage and to make the president look back and to pull the president towards his side against people like you and me who are committed and trying to talk about facts. >> theres an interesting story that relates to this in politico that the senate panel that looked into the russian interference and also ukrainian interference, alleged, came up short. some republican sena...

How long can she get away with it? if its two, three months, does she even hold the sort of damocles she can at any moment impeach the president. does she have that authority? >> under the constitution the house has the authority to impeach. the impeachment proffer takes place when someone from the house goes over to the senate and impeaches the president at the bar of the senate. thats the way its always been expressed for a couple of hundred years. so until she does that hes not technically im...

Maybe their only big piece of leverage when it comes to the senate majority leader, to try to force him to make a deal on what the rules are going to be for the senate trial. i think that democrats in general and pelosi in particular were alarmed when mitch mcconnell said that he did not see his role as that of an imparab impartial juror but one who would see that the president was acquitted. this lent uncertainty to the process thats ahead. we know that the president wants this trial to happen,...

House speaker do those two integral things that she has to do to key up the senate trial. one, she will name that group of house managers, that group of house lawmakers, who will prosecute the case, on the senate floor. that will be followed by a rebuttal from the white house legal team, and then the next step, the next step is really up for debate. what the senate majority leader has been trying to do is create and structure a trial that is as fast and forgettable as possible. so after the whit...

To defend this constitution and we also swear under god so help me god is what we say. and i would hope that we will honor that when we start assessing the facts and i think that tim scott will. >> let me play you one more sound byte from mitch mcconnell about the idea of whether or not the speaker has leverage in these negotiations coming up. take a listen. >> i admit im not sewer what leverage there is in retraining from sending us something we do not want. meanwhile other house democrats seem...