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Mad, sad, and frustrated by the process thats taken so long in the house or you know what? there are other things we could be doing that we are not doing. underscored by the last-minute passage of that big trade agreement between the united states, mexico, and canada. i think mexico is our number one trading partner. the fact that agreement was held up for almost one year because they didnt want to give the president a win on anything and they wanted to occupy their time with impeachment. people...

The senate. griff: she still hasnt moved on them. ed: democrats are pushing with their attacks on mitch mcconnell. minority leader still steamed about what he said working with the white house. democratic attacks are sounding a lot like the attacks that some in the media are launching. almost one in the same. take a listen to the democrats first. >> my hope is that some of my republican colleagues will have the same misgivings that senator murkowski expressed. mitch mcconnell is sabotaging this ...

Impeachment process went down. she realizes she has a political and legal problem by handing down these articles of impeachment that have no factual basis. this president should be reelected, not impeached. griff: so, bill, we have seen, obviously, democrats and some in the media. we played it in the last segment, have a problem with the murkowski criticism saying that you know, leader mcconnell and the white house should not be working so closely together. is that a fair criticism? >> i dont be...

>> let me ask you your thoughts about what senator kennedy and senator murkowski said about what they want to see. >> i think this is about whether or not you want the american people to hear the facts or not. its a much more powerful thing to hear witnesses tell the story out loud to see their faces, to see their demeanor, to see how they respond to questions. thats a very powerful way of having a trial, and its the way it happens in our judicial system every single day. this is really a politi...

Was about which is cover up, cover up, cover up. and they be really in hulg hot watt fer they start claiming checktive privilege. >> sam, to that point, they had a pressure campaign on republican senators, is that already under way, have you seen any sign thats it is working the way these groups intended it to? when you see some of the recent comments from senator kennedy or senator murkowski? >> liberal groups have been pressuring them for several weeks. as the process moves over to the senate,...

Murkowski said she also said she had problems with the way speaker pelosi ran the trial and frankly lines up with where mcconnell is and how he wants to go. its a wait and see. it underscores we have heard so few republicans come out and say anything against where the white house is or their leadership is, thats why everybody stopped and said, okay, maybe this is a little bit different when you get to the upper chamber. >> maybe the disturbance in the forest become as big thing when other people...

>> shes clearly sending a message to mcconnell that she wants there to be at least an appearance of a fair trial in the senate. i think it is problematic for a moderate or for someone like murkowski to go into this process and having to explain to their constituents that the fix was in at the very beginning. so theres that. i think theres a signal to mcconnell, you need to back away from this kind of rhetoric that were just working with the president to get him exonerated at the very beginning. ...

Raises lisa murkowski, lisa murkowski knows that everyone is watching her every word. and her speaking out, to say that she is disturbed by how mcconnell is handling things and coordinating with the white house, what do you think she is really saying? >> well, were focusing on that one word "disturbed." but. you read the entire article, the local interview she did in alaska, she agrees with mitch mcconnell that we should use -- that the senate should use the clinton impeachment rules. shes on th...

The white house. i think mcconnell was right, hang on a second, you have got four or five democratic senators running for president. they are supposed to be impartial jurors sitting on the senate floor for a trial with the chief justice of the united states up there presiding and they are bashing the president every day of the week. katie: because nancy pelosi hasnt held herself to the same standard of bipartisan this is now a very political process. to say act like all these people arent going ...

Would vote on those rules, but if republicans vote with the full caucus, they could decide how the senate carries out the trial and could kill any effort to dismiss it. there is no indication that murkowski or any other senate committees. halle, good morning to you, the president up and about, tweeting as always, what is he saying? >> spending his holiday break here in true donald trump style, right? on twitter, talking about democrats and house speaker nancy pelosi. he is very upset tweeting ab...