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No subpoena powerful republicans, no republican witnesses. during the depositions, republicans wereriri prevented m getting all their questions answered. but democrats got every up there questions. and of courset the anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand evidence, bias against the president, thes. guy who started it all. was never compelled to testify. >> laura: i almost didnt recognize him because he got the jacket on. lie number three, trump used ukrainian aid for political leverage. >> he...

House, saying we dont need to give it to the senate yet. we are not really in any rush. they say how somber it is an urgent it it is to get this done. to blindly show the american people that this is about politics. all along, the american people are seeing is about politics. is not about putting the facts. when nancy pelosi does something like this, shes showing the people i care about leverage, i care about power. i dont care about a fair investigation. i think the american people -- a lot of ...

Mcconnell says that democrats may house of representatives are trying to influence the trial. >> only one outcome will preserve presidents rather than smash them into bits and the fit of partisan rage because one party still cannot accept the american peoples choice in 2016. >> mitch mcconnell talk to reporters just off the senate floor a little bit ago and he said the following, its beyond me how the speaker and democratic leader in the senate think withholding the articles of impeachment gives...

Of impeachment to the senate indicating she may hang onto them for leverage as democrats wait to see what a senate trial may actually look like. in minutes well hear what mitch mcconnell has to say about all that speaking on the senate floor moments from now. first here to talk about it is debbie dingell, co-chair of the democratic policy and communications committee. thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> sandra: were wondering whats the next move by nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. h...

If you dont have a deal, its -- thats like and have the bidens and mick mulvaney, this could be the greatest spectacle of all time. its hard to believe after weve been through this impeachment possibility you could not have a senate trial, if you do not send over those articles, despite all of this conversation, shannon, it might not happen, so long as nancy pelosi controls the ball. and she is always looking for leverage. mitch mcconnell might say, im not going to meet with chuck schumer until ...

>> lets dig deep sbeer into th. robert costa, and moderator former democratic senator from my home staid of thursday, he was serving when bill clinton was impeached in 1998. and david jolly, no longer affiliated with the party. if speaker pelosi holds on to these articles, could she hold it as leverage to get a fair trial. >> i dont think she does, i hate to second guess her, but i think she runs the risk here of changing both the momentum and the perceptions of these proceedings. i served in bo...

It was jauns ohnson in the 1800 clinton in the 1900s and donald j. trump in the 2000s. a two thirds vote in the senate. the senate conducts it as a trial -- to remove a president. but there is some drama as this now heads to the senate in part because there has been no agreement in the united states senate as to how this trial of president trump is going to be conducted. there have been provocative comments including some reference tonight by speaker of the house nancy pelosi, provocative commen...

And they feel they need some witnesses to do it. >> but the managers are the ones who do that. i mean, in the absence of witnesses. there were not in-person witnesses, as howard mentioned, there were three videotaped depositions. whats interesting to me is the house hasnt appointed any managers and i wonder if theres politicking on the d side in the house about who do we want to make our case? >> i would assume part of that has to do with are you looking for impeachment managers that are present...

Ahead of 2020 that they were taking action on this and investigating him. and i do think that theyre going to take it seriously about trying to shape the senate trial as much as they can and exert as much leverage as they can. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell really wants the senate trial over as quickly as possible. several senators are up for re-election in 2020. so i think were going to see some really interesting tension on that over the next few days and then into january. >> jonathan lemire, mor...

Comes next in this process. and to clarify this for people because these rules between the house and the senate, its arcane, it can be confusing. look, there were two additional steps that house democrats had to do in order to tee up a senate trial. one was that the house speaker had to name the house impeachment managers, that group of house lawmakers who will basically act as prosecutors on the senate floor. the other thing they had to do was transmit the articles of impeachment. but after the...