caucus that he was coordinating everything with the white house? no, not at all. i mean, nothing like this. i mean, the template of the trial was difficult to try to figure out how we do this, but we did it. and but it s a vastly different circumstance in the united states senate today. it s very tribal. you know, i think when you look at the senate and you see now if this comes to the senate, the boat hasn t been declared in the house yet. there s a trial. you look look, i know there are a fair number of republicans in the senate. they know this is wrong. they know that inviting a foreign leader to interfere in america s election by asking that leader to investigate the president s political rival, they know that s just wrong but you don t hear a peep out of them. my guess is mcconnell thinks he s going to get all of them to vote to acquit. that s what he expects. and i think what he said the last two days with respect to coordinating a defense in an impeachment trial is just di
house of representatives to have abused his office, abused his oath, and endangered the national security and then blockaded in the inquiry as though he were a dictator. it s fascinating that s not a very good record. you re speaking on the expertise you have. but you re making a point i haven t heard a ton today which is that if what trump and mcconnell are after is some sort of public claim to an acquittal, you re saying they have undermined that by mcconnell admitting the whole thing is rigged and they ve tainted whatever ub approximapublic acq seek. i think that s exactly right. so, that in the end the real verdict that will have been reached is a verdict in the house of representatives. the senate will just be, i suppose you could call it, a potempkin trial. moscow mitch is happy to set up. it s not going to be a real
trial. mitch mcconnell admitting today he will coordinate with the potential defendant here. we re going to get into all of that. also new reporting on the ukraine, the white house admitting in a new footnote they re still missing some of the money. and my live interview with the special guest who s been advising speaker pelosi and the top democrats on impeachment. then fall back friday tonight with harvey firestein and peggy knew nano. all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on
senator mcconnell. will all senators stand and raise your right hand. you ll do impartial work so help you god. mcconnell saying he may break that oath of impartial justice, may also explain why donald trump has defied subpoenas, counting on the personal relationship to bail him out regardless of what he did which may be why one can be so guilty and so confident. as rick ross claimed, he was explaining why he felt calm when strolling into a trial he knew he was guilty for. walking into the courtroom sipping a beverage, i know the judge so i have leverage. democrats objecting to such a blatantly gangster mentality emanating from the oval office.
president has been impeached if he is, indeed, impeached next wednesday. it will be the first time a president has been impeached in his first term, and it will be the first time that any president who has been impeached is on trial before a senate of his own party. and what it looks like is that the majority leader is going to conduct this trial as though he s a member of the defense team. you know, it s an ancient principle, centuries old actually over a millennium old that you can t be a judge on your own case. and effectively, to allow donald trump to call the shots, violates that principle. it also may backfire. let me press you on that. you say it may backfire. saying this blatantly out in the open, do you view that in the actual substantive sense as a violation of senator mcconnell s