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House, this white house counsel and this committee, refuses to go along. >> john meacham, the republican senators were going to do what seemed to be impossible and that was sit there and not say anything today and it turned out to be impossible. they eventually gave up on their hired lawyer and jumped in there themselves. most of them made speeches instead of asking questions. >> they did. and they fell back on the vernacular of these kinds of hearings which are really talkings. you know, not to...

>> they did. and they fell back on the vernacular of these kinds of hearings which are really talkings. you know, not to call the witnesses, not to tap the brakes and investigate is almost as though youre going to have the his chambers hearings and not let the pumpkin papers in, or say that whitaker chambers cant testify. its a very strange and really ahistorical way of going about this. one of the things that is supposed to set the senate apart at large, you know this, is supposed to cool the c...