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Juan williams and co-host of the five. david asman anchor of bulls and bears and james freeman assistant editor of the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributors. james, what is nancy pelosi thinking? >> good question. i dont think she is helping people take this process more seriously. she is trying to assert powers of the senate. the house does impeachments. the senate does trials. so by this bizarre delay she is trying to set the rules of that senate trial. that is not a p...

Fair way. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell says he and democratic leader chuck schumer had a cordial conversation about the senate trial but they are at an impasse. mcconnell is here on capitol hill today and sense in terms of the key players, everyone has has taken a position. >> some house democrats imply they are withholding the articles for some kind of leverage. so they can dictate the senate process to senators. i admit im not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us som...

Facts. we want a fair trial. message from leader mcconnell at the moment is that he has no intention of conducting a fair trial, no intention of acting impartially. >> harris: this from the president, who tweeted "after the democrats gave us no due process in the house, no lawyers, known witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the senate how to run their trial. actually they have zero proof of anything. they will never show up, they want out, i want an immediate trial." mike emanuel live on...

The moral courage of our caucus. >> reporter: but pelosis not ready to take the next step. shes refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the senate until republican leader mitch mcconnell reveals what the trial will look like. mcconnell has said hes working in "total coordination" with the white house. >> our founders, when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president. i dont think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader ...

Three democrat in the house. he is in leadership. he is among those by his own account is encouraging speaker pelosi to hold onto the articles of impeachment that just passed the house last night, hold onto them until the senate determines its rules how its going to conduct the trial. so in clyburns words it wont be a kangaroo court. senator mcthe republican leader of the senate didnt say anything how the trial is going to be run, but he did spend a half-hour on the floor today saying the democr...

Interviews with more than a dozen former officials and that particular recollection based on conversations with three former advisers. is that something that you would have a separate hearing to try to understand that putin told him and hardwired his faith in this conspiracy theory? >> we want to understand exactly the leverage that vladimir putin has over the president going back to the helsinki meeting and why the president destroyed the notes from that meeting, kicked other people out. but, n...

Controversial ones that republicans dont want to see called. he understands they may not have the votes for that but he still wants a trial and he wants it quickly. right now impeachment hangs over him. he is saying publicly it doesnt feel like i have been impeached. i dont know what he expected it to feel like, but he is trying to convince everyone he is unruffled and unaffected by this, but privately he want this is resolved and he wants to say i was acquitted in the senate and at this point h...

And thats the reason that when speaker pelosi is using her power and her leverage, its because she knows that the american public understands this, and the longer that that is held open, then the more pressure there is on mitch mcconnell to set the rules straight, whether hes going to play by them or not, americans know that we need to call witnesses. >> congressman swalwell, nancy pelosi doesnt blink, but neither does mitch mcconnell. how do you think this ends? >> well, again, the american peo...

Welcome back to "hardball." many questions remain, of course, about the path ahead for a senate impeachment trial. but one things no longer in question president trump is now and will forever be an impeached president. thats in the record books forever. president trumps own actions led us to this decision to pressure a foreign government to investigate his political rival for his own personal benefit while holding up military aid for leverage. his actions provided in that july 25th phone call wi...

Right now. and republicans do, certainly mitch mcconnell does. there is no leverage in giving the senate something that the senate doesnt want. so the longer you can drag it out. trump can say that they didnt have anything, but there is leverage in the way that republicans stand right now. >> nancy says she wants a fair trial. this is between two grand masters, and donald trump, and they all have different agendas. they dont want it to be a sham trial. mitch mcconnell needest to protect donald t...