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To send him the articles of the impeachment. there are rules established if he and schumer cant come to some kind of agreement. essentially this trial would run six days a week. senators wouldnt be able to talk. there would be very scheduled motions when senators wanted to basically ask for a motion or ask for witnesses, they would have to have the presiding officer, which in this case would be justice roberts deal with that in writing. so that gives you a sense of the established precedent. mcc...

Remove the president, you are very unlikely to get 67 votes in the senate to remove him. thats why mitch mcconnell has been saying lets get on with this. the president wants a quick acquittal. lisa was saying here on fox saying he was going to be talking to the white house and figure out how to move forward. he said the idea that people think he is not going to be impartial are any of the democrats going to be impartial in this trial? lets take a listen to what membership mcconnell said right he...

Against justice brett kavanaugh. she is not a big fan of president trump in general. so this is not something big breaking news story that shield be opposed to everything that the mitch mcconnell. ed: mitch mcconnell is con fiewsdz. after that hannity appearance was saying democrats seem to be a little confuse bud this whole idea of impartiality. watch. >> do you think chuck schumer is impartial? >> no. >> do you think elizabeth warren is impartial. >> no. >> bernie sanders is impartial? lets qu...

Down. >> molly: the ultimate outcome. there doesnt seem to be a lot of drama there but when it comes to process well see what some of these republican senators may potentially do. going on with this topic a little further. here is mcconnell talking about this whole idea of impartiality. >> do you think chuck schumer is impartial? do you think elizabeth warren is impartial or bernie sanders? lets quit the charade. this is a political exercise. a political exercise. all im asking of schumer is tha...

Making about the significant of what lisa murkowski had to say. do you want other republicans to follow her lead? >> the one thing that we dont know right now is where the votes are for we dont know how many senators would vote to go forward without witnesses. she was buying time for mcconnell and schumer to work out a deal that would be beneficial to democrats and mcconnell to figure out where his votes were. she is just not giving up that leverage. the question about what murkowski said is is ...

Frustration is not limited solely to her. >> all right, doug, if you were chuck schumer and you were trying to get to 51 votes, how do you then capitalize on these comments from murkowski? >> symbolically they mean something because what weve seen in the house is total obedience from everyone, from the intelligence committee on to the full house. so you didnt hear many republicans at all breaking -- you know, saying anything bad about trump. but when you have lisa murkowski, and i would expect y...

Exonerate him but clearly is worried about that. but i think this gives schumer at least a rationale to say, look, we need to have a fair trial, we need it to be open, honest, we need to have witnesses. >> rick, do you think there is someone who follows murkowski? >> she is worried, as nick said, and she can make other senators worried, and one of the senators she likes to talk to is susan collins who is up for re-election and she should be worried. you can look at it as an incremental step. the...

Politically or its not just harming him personally. but its harming him in his ability to do his job as commander in chief. its not always the line we get from the president. normally, the line we get from the president is that impeachment is a total scam. a total hoax. and its not affecting his ability at all and under his powers under the constitution to conduct foreign policy to run the country. so a slightly different tone from the president. you have to put it into the context of that -- of...

>> in fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. if we are tasked, as the full senate, to -- to do impartial justice under the constitution and the law, to me, it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. and so i -- i -- i heard what leader mcconnell had said. i happen to think that that has further confused the process. >> as we said, the senate trial is in flux as speaker pelosi refuses to send articles of impeachment to the senate until shes sure...

Air conditioning, go away. i got to let you respond to that, though, for a second. >> look. i trust nancy pelosis political judgment here. thats the person who im listening to here. i dont think democrats are going to shotgun another impeachment proceeding. i think that there is all pro-forma stuff you have to put out just to kind of cover your bases. i think the bottom line here is the presidents facing a trial in the senate and schumer has done a good job of setting up the goalpost around fair...