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Could call witnesses and documents, and mcconnell told him straight up no. it seems pelosi is going to sit on the impeachment articles until that changes. do you think thats the right call? whats the leverage? >> well, first of all nancy pelosi has been a light worker in dark times then way shes handled this whole process, pulling together almost the entiry of the democratic caucus. i have a lot of respect for her. i think a lot of americans shes earned more and more respect. those articles are ...

Republican leader worked with the democratic leader and they together came out and got a set of processes for the trial. which passed the senate by 100 to nothing. a unanimous support. for a bipartisan approach to it. and when the whole trial was over and people were assessing what had been done, the senators gave them a standing ovation. for having put together. thats the model. thats what we would like to see schumer and mcconnell push towards. theyre caught up in the partisan war were in a st...

Republicans have raised tens of millions of dollars off of impeachment as a campaign wedge issue. thats a real challenge. >> why shouldnt those who were in the room be there testifying? what is the intellectually honest answer to that question? >> did they do a lousy job laying it out? why do you have to have a whole new trial? >> it is not the responsibility of the republicans and ascended to clean up the mess the democrats created in the house by not getting the evidence, not going through the...

This presidency all roads lead to putin and he does it so open that i sometimes we laugh. and i worry that the american people see that as it being laughed off because its not important. explain why its important. >> well, its important because russia is an adversary in so many ways. they invade countries in europe. they use force and brutal ways in the middle east. and they interfere in electoral processes, not just in our country, but throughout europe. they are an adversary. they are a seriou...

To give to stormy daniels, to try to keep her quiet. these are things that you just dont expect a president of the united states of america to be about. he defined himself pretty clearly. in addition to that, this is a president who has shown he has no respect for the constitution. he doesnt care about the democracy. he has embraced putin. putin is responsible for hacking into the democratic national committee and undermining our processes for election, undermining our democracy. and so, yes, i ...

Will be back. >> julian castro joins us. sir, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> let me first start, if i can, sir, of asking you about what do you think or who do you think is to blame for not having more minority candidates on that stage? is there an institutional problem with our politics and our processes that has led to this? >> you know, i guess i dont think of it that way. i dont think theres any one thing to blame. i do think that its a result of different things. these...

Were seeing it now, we borrowed that from an aristotelian line of thought. madison had made a study of montesque and later at montpelier in the months before the constitutional convention. what they saw was we had to make things incredibly difficult to do because we were as human beings more likely to do the wrong thing than the right thing and the fruits of that system, however frustrating they might be, is something were seeing right now. >> tim, you mentioned something that basically most of ...

Election? yes, they did. everybodys got a different opinion as to why they meddled in the election. the consensus is they wanted president trump to win. >> thats what the intelligence community has. >> at that time it was unclear. many of us thought two years ago or two and a half years ago that the russians were just meddling in the election to bring a lot of distrust to the electoral process and to make the american people distrust the democratic processes in america. >> right. which could hav...

>> good evening. in recent months, members of my administration and officials of the committee for the re-election of the president, including some of my closest friends and most trusted aides, have been charged with involvement in what has come to be known as the watergate affair. in any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. that responsibility, therefore, belongs here in this office. i accept it. and i pledge to you tonight from this office that i will do everything in...

Were seeing it right now, there was a line of thought, they took it more directly from monteskew. there was a study of it in the months before the constitutional convention. what they saw was that we had to make things incredibly difficult to do because we we were as human beings more likely to do the wrong thing than the right thing. and the fruits of that system, however frustrating it might be to one side or the other at a given moment is something were seeing right now. >> tim, you mentioned...