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Money that congress has appropriated, do this and do that that help me personal -- my personal gain. but instead what youre seeing is republicans making kind of weird process arguments saying they want the whistle-blower to come forward. saying they want hunter biden to be on the list -- witness list. what do you make of that strategy on the republican side? >> what i make of it is, while this should be a very somber and serious undertaking on all sides, its a very, very serious step to be takin...

For trump, whether its uniformed colonel vindman or ambassador sondland who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for donald trump, or kurt volker or bill taylor. in isnt going to be a problem for them because theres a really big difference. this is their play book that they just scream and make a lot of noise and attack. but they had a real advantage when they did this during the mueller report, during the investigation, because mueller couldnt fight back. so, they would attack muellers credi...

Convoluted. and that is why the process arguments have sort of been working so far. which is like when you say the democrats dont understand the rules or theyre making it up, thats not true. the democrats have followed all the rules. but your average american doesnt know how its supposed to work. >> rachel, weve already seen from the white house and the department of justice basically block some folks who were supposed to be on the hill next week. what do democrats do the about the fact that som...

Job of convincing republican voters that the process has not been fair. but they realize as this moves to a more public hearing that theyre going to run out of steam on process. what theyre doing is what i believe i heard this morning talking about how there was no quid pro quo and making the argument that because the money flowed or because there was actually no investigation into joe biden, that theres nothing to see here. and i think thats where youre going to start seeing members go as this ...

The daily beast, the republican party lawmakers are planning to focus their attention on discrediting the whistle-blower, could that be effective? especially considering so much testimony appears to have backed up what the whistle-blower alleged. >> yeah, and for that reason, im not sure thats whats going to be the main focus of the strategy. to the extent theres going to be a focus on the whistle-blower, thats because thats what the president wants to be focusing on. i dont know that house repu...

Democrats cannot ignore the allegations against president trump, despite their concerns that with further divide the country. house dems got a full impeachment list for next week but unclear who will show up. joining us is david gregory and susan glasser, staff writer for the new yorker and jeffrey toobin. a lot to talk about. let me start with you. the line youre hearing from republicans is that this is no due process. it is unconstitutional. it is unfair. its even fundamentally unamerican acco...

View with past impeachment inquiries? >> you know, i dont think that the nixon and clinton impeachments are really great guides for our current situation. if the house had picked up an impeachment inquiry based on the mueller report, i think that the analogy would be more appropriate. but here what you have is essentially an investigation begun from scratch without any kind of independent counselor special prosecutor engaged in the original fact finding mission. and they have tarted this. and no...

So what are the rules? republicans and democrats will have more time for questioning and republicans can call their own witnesses but only with democrats approval. >> its a sad day because nobody comes to congress to impeach a president of the united states no one >> reporter: the vote forced house lawmakers to go on the record, only two democrats crossed party lines to vote against the resolution no republicans defected with the white house privately pleased at that show of support. >> this imp...

Investigation thus far, because its all going to come out there. are a number of republicans who want to say to this president dont argue this as a fireside chat because the facts arent good for you either. >> yeah, i think when these transcripts are released its going to be a worst picture for the president. all of the witnesses who have come forward have essentially corroborated the same story, that there was an effort by the president to ask the ukrainians to interfere in the 2020 election, t...

American military aid and a white house visit until that happened and that the white house staff, including lawyers of the white house staff sought to cover that up. so the defenders of the president only have three places to go without these process arguments available to them.soid number one is i guess perhaps they could say well, the facts werent as described. he never said these things, and its a misinterpretation the people who heard that. i dont think thats going to fly. they could argue t...