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Government apparatus to go through this process but if he does, thats how its going to go, jim. >> that is fascinating. another viewer wants to know if governor cuomo fights the allegations against him. what do you think the defenses will be that hell raise in all of this? we heard from the defense attorney a few moments ago. what do you think? >> we got a preview and then some yesterday from the defense team. first of all, they raised these political arguments. this is all some effort to get th...

>> all right. so, some technical issues from the governors legal team here. well get you to them as soon as they figure that out. erica hill, what weve heard from paul fishman thus far, this case of there not being basic fairness, a lot of this we didnt get a transcript, they have not released some of these details. weve got paula reid here as well. my apology for not introducing paula reid. your first take on what weve heard. >> luckily, too, paula reids a recovering attorney so we get to tap i...

Conspiracy theory that all of these women are somehow lying, that tish james office has an ax to grind. and you saw little threads there throughout of this big conspiracy theory, everybodys against governor cuomo. i thought it fell really flat, and i dont think its going to work. >> elie, why would the new york attorney general withhold the full transcripts of the interviews in this investigation? why arent we seeing more, and what is your view of the overall defense? >> yeah, pam. so the first ...

Coming from someone like senator murkowski who is known to be fairly independent-minded? >> shes a bit of a wildcard. so its hard to say. susan collins is probably the most vulnerable senate republican. and when chuck schumer, the democratic leader, came out with his demands on the process, she didnt go along with it. she said chuck schumers play upset her. as long as hes able to keep people like susan collins, cory gardner, martha mcsally in arizona in check, i think hes okay. he has the proces...

Were only four days away from the house passing impeachment proceedings. the house and senate are in recess. the president is at mar-a-lago. nothing is trying. the trial wont happen for several weeks. its not unreasonable what the speaker is doing. she needs to appoint her impeachment managers, those are essentially prosecutors, and she wants to understand what kind of venue the prosecutors are going to be trying a case in. is it going to be fair? i find this whole thing a little laughable in th...

Who can convince him it would be in his benefit if the house is forced to just hold these. so i understand the jujitsu move. it did surprise people. the white house, i will say had been hearing for at least a day it might happen. i was hearing it from folks from the white house 24 hours before this took place. i think they would be thrilled. >> because mitch mcconnells answer would be, okay. >> correct. itd be like, thats fine. >> because it allows them to say this was just purely politics. >> e...

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 ...

Himself to work with mr. giuliani to fulfill his demands. president trump withheld critical military aid for ukraine. and president trump stonewalled congress investigation to cover up his misconduct. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois. >> gentlemans recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, this should not be a partisan vote. this is a vote about america. its a vote about our democracy and our oath to the constitution. we all took an oath to protect the constitution agains...

Hunter biden behind closed doors. and so now the huge irony is that as the process moves to the senate, when republicans are going to control the entire process, theyre saying even though our argument was that we were cheated and this is unfair in the house, now that we control it, we dont want witnesses and we dont want a trial. >> unbelievable. thank you so much, heidi. let me go back to garrett on the floor. whats happening now? that measure did not succeed? >> reporter: it wont succeed. were...

Its clear theyre going to use that now. what arguments are they going to make as republicans? what arguments are they going to make as democrats? i cant imagine the republican senators will be shouting the way jordan and some of these other -- >> in a word, theyre going to make process arguments. thats what we saw in the house. >> david gergen, manu raju. rick gates, he cooperated with robert muellers investigation. will he get a break at his sentencing? any minute now we should learn the sent...