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Between the combined forces of pelosi and schumer because this hand-off is really among democrats, theyre trying to extract rules of the road and witnesses from the republican side, and mitch mcconnell, the master at this allegedly? >> absolutely. i think the democrats see the impeachment of president trump, as mar as was saying, as something that they really needed to show to the electorate ahead of 2020 that they were taking action on this and investigating him. and i do think that theyre goin...

Vindicated in some way from the impeachment act last night in the house. if he becomes impatient and starts mushing mcconnell to make a deal with the democrats, that could possibly be the leverage pelosi is looking for. as garrett said, we dont know when this is going to get resolved, if at all, between now and january. it might be the beginning of the new year before we get any sort of resolution in terms of an agreement for the parameters of a senate trial. >> as you well know, michael steele,...

Made a lot of process arguments against house democrats and they didnt seem to care one lick about what republicans claimed or said. now they get to go in and say this is how the senate process should be. thats fine but guess what, they can only complain and whine so much. >> devils advocate, is this the only leverage that nancy pelosis has here and trying to use it to her advantage. >> nancy pelosi is trying to use what leverage she has to force fair treatment from a man who went out in public ...

Vindicated. mcconnell is spinning a different point. >> spoker pelosi suggested that house democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shotty work product to the senate. mr. president, looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. >> is this about cold feet? as a political matter, thats not a very good attack. the president himself and most of his allies have argued that speaker employ si and the democrats were too aggressive, too tough on him, too unfair. so, to turn around today and...

Person, as a member of this jury, but the question of whether the house might have some leverage in terms of trying to get the senate to pick rules that are agreed to on bipartisan terms, is now a very live question. in the impeachment senate trial of bill clinton, the top democrat and the top republican worked together, they came up with rules for that senate trial for president clinton that were agreed to by a bipartisan unanimous 100-0 vote. doesnt seem like anything like that is going to hap...

Who is a democrat but very moderate and has oftentimes sided with the president. >> i think hes doing anything thoek not judge the facts or not look at the articles until they come over and figure out what the senate is doing. >> is this not a hot mess? >> both sides are doing what they have to do. nancy pelosi has some leverage, mitch mcconnell has a lot of leverage. i think theyre going to do whatever is best for their members and see two heavyweights slug it out. should be a fun christmas and...

And walk us through some of the next steps that we will see with this impeachment process. >> reporter: she already threw a bomb into this whole process that was relatively unexpected, she made it just after the president was impeached by the house of representatives but what she is doing is holding out for the leverage she has, and using this to try to get some concessions and get some clarity in this process. but what she and democrats are worried about is a process that is not agreed on befor...

Of that trial. can you give us any update on that and whether or not your colleagues in the house believe you essentially have leverage over the senate to try to force them to announce more bipartisan, more, in your words, fair rules? >> rachel, i think at this point really on the immediate aftermath of this historic vote to impeach the president, were not thinking much beyond this evening, except to this degree, and that is, the american people want to hear the evidence. they want to hear from ...

Loved, respected, honored john dingell, it is, you know, its something that people will remember. >> all right. senator debbie stabenow, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. >> youre welcome. now we look at how this moves forward, whether its process or strategy. philip rut ker, what a philip rucker, what are you look at? >> i want to see what nancy pelosi ends up doing in terms of bring those articles of impeachment over to the senate. she indicatesed last night that she wa...

House-controlled part of this. leader schumer has said they want to see this get done. he told reporters this afternoon he and speaker pelosi are in lockstep on this. but the truth is, they do not have a lot of leverage here to try to force this on mitch mcconnell and the republican-controlled senate beyond appealing to public opinion in this case, which is decisively, at least thus far, in favor of hearing from additional witnesses. and so well see this conversation happen behind closed doors. ...