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Control, on health care. we are now marking up a bill on prescription drugs. we have continuously passed bills, sent them to the senate. and mitch mcconnell has not brought a single one forward. the fact that the senate is not working does not take away from the fact that we are producing the bills. but i cannot walk away from my oath of office and the constitutional requirement to bring forth hearings to investigate when there are misdemeanors or high crimes. >> is there as this goes forward so...

Were heading for uncharted territory. the u.s. has never had a presidential impeachment trial during an election year in modern history. as the politico headline reads, theres no model for this. analysts say on its current path a potential senate trial for president trump could happen just weeks before the iowa caucuses. that would mean six candidates who are also u.s. senators could be sidelined from the campaign trail, required to be in washington every work day for at least a month. lets brin...

We have originalists, we have other folks who interpret the constitution differently. thats exactly what we have with lawmakers now. but make no mistake, a lot of this is political too. theyre listening to their constituents. theyre worried about being primaried. theyre worried if a republican takes a stand against donald trump that they might not be politically viable in their district. so theres definitely a political consideration here as well. if the president is shown to be unambiguously ha...

The year in advance of the election itself. >> chris, thanks for having me on. as aid yuan knows, onot just shaking hands and appearing at rallies fund-raising. you have to spend times raising dollars to fuel the campaign. theres no question that the impeachment process could fundamentally disrupt the schedule. so if im joe biden, i am sleeping on cots in des moines and cedar rapids and iowa city. if im one of those senators, i am pushing the other senators out of the way in order to get televis...

Re-elected which hes not allowed to do, and everyone will support it. the fact of the matter is the american people have to see the facts, they have to see this is like a political murder. thats what hes trying to do. hes abusing the power of his office to get re-elected. if the people get to see the witnesses, get to hear them, they get to trust or not trust their credibility and sincerity, thats whats going to make a difference. they will affect the members of congress. remember in watergate, ...

Circus. circuses need clowns. so the question is whether republicans in the senate are going to go along with this, whether they are willing to go along with this clown car attack on the impeachment process because a lot of them would like to say this is serious, this is grave, this is bad, but not impeachable. trump wants them to think its a witch hunt, a coup, a joke. theres going to be a lot of push and pull and strain about how senate republicans interact with this alternative reality of tru...

Not an ideal situation. i do think candidates can deploy surrogates. i ran a surrogates program for hillary clintons campaign in 2016. >> oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. >> no comparison. >> i have been covering campaigns since i dont even want to say how long, i have never seen with the exception of maybe like a barack obama an an thus as for a surrogate that reaches anywhere near the level of a candidate. >> youre right. >> two-thirds of iowans say they can change their mind. their mind is not going to be...