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Tom harkin of iowa. the senators are not sitting as jurors, senator harkin noted. and the chief justice agreed with that proposition. rather, the senate is a court. in fact, history teaches us that for literally decades, this body was referred to in this context as the high court of impeachment. so were not in a legislative chamber during these proceedi s proceedings, were in a tribunal, were in a court. in 1778, he was describing the role of the courts, your role. in doing so, he distinguished ...

Correspondent yamiche alcindor and back with us, chuck roseb g rosenbe rosenberg. chuck, i want to go back to you, this is what we were talking about what it is that bill taylor had said. he has direct testimony of what was going on. if you believe him that looks like quid pro quo. >> it also looks like public misconduct. by the way, if i could add one point of the proceedings. i think it is important, in a federal grand jury proceedings and i was a federal prosecutor for a long time. we do it i...

Meme-making anti-democratic online personas. these pro-trump online engines. so that part is in place again, just exactly like it was before. i mean, why wouldnt the russians do it again, right? its not like they got in trouble for doing it the first time. and weve got this president who was in the middle of impeachment proceedings, like he did in 2016. he wasnt under impeachment proceedings then, but we had this sort of scandal-ridden candidate in 2016 who was very busy in 2016 trying to make i...

Wouldnt be such a good idea after all, especially because it left republicans in congress feeling a little queasy at a time when they were already having a hard time defending him in these impeachment proceedi s proceedings. even though the president blamed democrats and the media for this change of heart, its quite clear that the reason that he changed on this is because republicans were not standing by him on though decision. and the big open secret of the trump presidency is that this preside...