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Elections. the network was called the bl and was run by vietnamese users posing as americans using fake photos to simulate real identities. the epoch media group spent $9.5 million on online ads to spread content. the network had over 55 million followers on facebook, which is almost double the number of followers that kim kardashian has. quote, the account pushed anti-impeachment and pro-trump messages while otherwise posing as every day americans. so, yeah, president trump just got impeached f...

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 impartial juror but rather as someone who was going to try to make sure that the president was acquitted. so this lends some uncertainty to the process thats ahead. we know that the president wants this trial to hap...

Through the now suspended pages and groups. quote, the network had over 55 million followers on facebook, which is almost double the number of followers that kim kardashian has. quote, the account pushed anti-impeachment and pro-trump messages while otherwise posing as every day americans. so, yeah, president trump just got impeached for trying to use the power of the u.s. government and the presidency as leverage to force another country to get into the 2020 u.s. election on his side. i mean, w...

Lets bring in joe lockhart. and ali hodi. joe, the last important to me is the most important and explains everything. theres a lot of questions why is nancy pelosi doing this? what does she want to get out of it? it might be that tend game here is to rattle the president into an extent triangulate, create opposition between the president and mitch mcconnell. >> i think its a -- she is seeking some leverage here, to try to get some witnesses. i think shes also trying to keep this in the news on ...

Put the shoe on the other foot. what if the republicans said, were going to try to stop this from coming to the senate. we dont want the articles and were not going to take them and not have a trial, people would be flipping out the other way. >> it sounds a lot like the white house strategy. and they are republicans. the poker analogy is great. its like the three of them are playing and trumps leaning over and saying, mcconnell, you have a pair of kings there, thats really good. yeah. thats gre...

Pretrial guarantee of certain witnesses whom the house democrats themselves did not bother to pursue. >> and, of course, you know this. they cant start the trial until house speaker nancy pelosi formally sends over articles of impeachment to the senate. democrats suggested holding them in the house as leverage. a decision leader mcconnell mocked on the senate floor. >> when we see what their process is we will know who and how many we want to send over. not until then. >> i admit, im not sure wh...

Hill. lauren, it seems this is coming down to who is a better poker player. they left town with all this hanging out there? >> reporter: after a busy week on capitol hill, kate, its quiet for the first time in a long time in washington. there is certainly a posturing game happening right now when it comes to whether or not nancy pelosi is going to be sending those articles of impeachment over. essentially the house voted yesterday on usmca and other bills. they have didnt vote on house managers,...

As well. its clear well have a trial. in the end it will be what are the terms of the trial? pelosi is exercising leverage which republicans didnt understand she had. thats empowering senator schumer to negotiate rules with senator mcconnell. basically all that the democrats are asking for is something very similar to the rules that they had for bill clintons trial which were approved unanimously by the senate. at the end of the day, even though there was a fuller and richer record for that, the...

Democrats for the strategy yesterday, i felt grahams comments interesting when he said i just left a meeting with president trump and he is, quote, mad as hell that they would delay this trial. so maybe the strategy will work in that sense so trump gets angry at mcconnell tries to get him to move. but for now, im not sure how this strategy will play out at the end and im not sure it is to nancy pelosis benefit just yet. >> but to some degree it is doing what it is intended to do. it is making hi...

Articles of impeachment until she sees the process on the senate side is fair so she either has to extract something from mitch mcconnell who is very savvy as we know. pelosi is savvy and he is savvy. im not saying one over the other. or she has to cave. is she in a bit of a box here. >> it is a puzzling move to say the least. youre trying to put leverage over mcconnell by with holding something that he doesnt want and it is totally fine not having. so i think what democrats were trying to do he...