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Senate -- in the house intelligence committee this weekend, by the republican members of the house, the ground was, you know, the house of representatives has not issued a resolution saying that the impeachment investigation should proceed. judge howell very specifically says, you dont need a resolution. that many impeachments have gone forward without resolutions. so, you know, the process arguments, which have been the core of the republican objection so far, seem to be falling away. and judge...

Why are you interviewing witnesses without republicans in the room? and they have had equal time to question it. why not have this open to the public? why not have this open to the republicans? >> having prosecuted a lot of cases myself, i know when the defense doesnt have the facts or the law, they attack the process. in this case thats what republicans have. if they dont have the facts on their side or the law on their side and their process arguments are quite silly. more than an investigatio...

There is a time and a place to have behind-the-scenes interviews done by lawyers and members of congress. but the whole investigation thus far shouldnt be behind closed doors. i think if democrats open it up, let us all have the respect, the american people and the members of congress, see the testimony, and make judgments for themselves, not based on just leaks, but based on the actual testimony. i think the american people will be better off. democrats will be better off. the president will be...

Congress, see the testimony, make judgments for themselves, not based on just leaks but based on the actual testimony, i think the american people would be better off, democrats would be better off, the president would be better off. this would be a process we could all buy into. but when you close it off, then you get those process arguments because we dont have all the information require think were entitled to, we deserve all the information. charlie does, you do, i do, so do the american peo...

It was riveting. bill taylor is an american hero. he served in vietnam with the 101st airborne. hes a graduate of west point. you cannot impeach his character in any way. and his evidence was absolutely def stating to the president of the united states. >> what was the reaction to republicans who were in that meeting? >> not good. you could tell that they were troubled by what he was saying. >> republicans have been saying -- questioning the process. why do you have -- why are you doing this beh...

Presidents own party are not putting their names on this resolution. i expect some of them eventually will, but its an embarrassment. this was done to make the president feel good about himself and will have an opposite impact. trump will have to look at this and say, okay, if a trial comes to the senate, i know at least eight members are not willing to buy into my process arguments that ive been using to demean the entire impeachment proceeding. >> were going to have to leave it there. sam stei...

Way. and hes not prepared to do that. and so hes kind of in the middle. >> and sam, so far what lindsey graham has accomplished is to identify for us eight republican senators who are leaning against the republican talking points certainly on the impeachment investigation of donald trump. >> i mean, thats remarkable to me because this resolution is ceremonial at best. itll have no bearing on the house impeachment process. its merely a way to get through a news cycle without the president beratin...

Sudden the rug is pulled out from under them. but worried about what the next evidence is going to be making their current defenses look even worse. >> aaron, as you write, the six defenses of trump and ukraine were falling apart were just plain bad. this has been a repeated effort, one after another, and almost all of them have been erased to this point. >> there is no quid pro quo, there is lots of process arguments here that dont exactly make sense. i think what we are seeing from lindsey gra...

Included in the whistle-blowers letter was corroborated by a number of witnesses. so republicans honestly have nowhere to run on this. >> we have heard the president repeatedly complain about adam schiff, the way he characterized the presidents call with the ukrainian president. we have the call with the ukrainian president. it doesnt matter what adam schiff said or didnt say. we have the primary documents and we are hearing from the officials in the room. >> the whistle-blower complaint was a l...

Because soon theyre going to have to put this in bite size, understandable narrative fashion. >> i think that they do understand that. what youve seen from speakers pelosi is a message for her caucus to focus on what happened here, what was the shake down, what was he doing in ukraine, and using all these statements to build out that narrative. to not take the bait into the process arguments, which is really where they got bogged down during the mueller investigation going to these issues of obs...