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I dont want to hear the evidence. if a vote comes up to hear witnesses they will be hard pressed not to vote in favor of witnesses. >> daniel, lets make sure people understand where we are right now with this trial. earlier in the week mitch mcconnell laid out his plan for a senate trial. here he is on fox on monday. >> look, what we need to do is to listen to the arguments, have a written questioning period and then decide whether we need witnesses or not. all im asking of schumer is treat trum...

States should not be an active participant in election insecurity and thats a point were at right now. >> so theres also kind of an interesting element. get back to, call it the chess game of strategy that is playing out with the trial. a fascinating opinion piece just put out. kind of on maybe the inside strategy that may be at play. you coming from the inside. you tell me what you think? from a former press secretary for democratic congressman jerry nadler, writing democrats should actually ho...

Mar-a-lago. we have heard quite a bit from the president particularly on twitter. he has slammed impeachment, democrats, nancy pelosi, and he continued that when talking to reporters yesterday. he said that pelosi hated republicans. thap she hated anyone who voted for president trump. and that she was doing a disservice to the country. but with all of the slamming of impeachment, he did have praise for one person. that was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. when asked about the impasse that...

Parameters of the discretion of the senate. i think that we will come to a point in time where the senate and the house and then between senator mcconnell and schumer, an agreement will be reached. there will be some testimony, whether its behind closed doors as it was in the clinton case or live in the senate well as republicans wanted in the clinton case, it remains to be seen. i think ultimately there has to be a compromise here, because the nation really depends on it, and if they dont, were...

Without schumer. >> we saw some of this play out on the house side as well. republicans had various gripes about the articles. the senate side in different because its a trial. i think the precedent that has been set by judicial nominations could just plebleed right on ov into this process where you try to compromise for a while. if it doesnt work, you toss it in the air and it moves forward on a very partisan basis. i am concerned about that for the impeachment trial. >> this is a guy who basic...

Were counsel to the senate judiciary committee under senator schumer. now, we saw the letter from him today. he also came out later today and said that he could and would push for a vote. how much leverage does he actually have right now? >> so the minority actually has a tremendous amount of leverage in the senate. so he does have some leverage. this gets back to danas point. what this all comes down to is how much pain can senator schumer and the democrats cause for those four or five or six s...

Them on this is a russia propaganda theory theyre spreading and president trump should have been briefed with the same information. rather than rely on the intelligence committee the president and members of the republican party are relying on putin,s that is undercutting confidence in the american security and compromising fiona hill. >> right. >> she was the presidents senior director, before this, on russian affairs. >> and she said it is russia, not ukraine and they will do it again. interes...

Schumers ongoing negotiations with mcconnell will yield. weve got to decide how long the impeachment goes, whether there will be witnesses and the like. then she will know who to appoint to go over to the senate to argue the case for the house of representatives. thats all that is. theres no delay because theres nothing happening in the house and senate for two weeks because of christmas. >> so a big part of this negotiation on behalf of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi is about witnesses. and one...

Peoples equities are not aligned here. and trump can deliver as many votes as he needs in the senate. if pelosi and schumer can find a way to get the president involved, their leverage goes way up. >> i see chinese food and ice cream in the future, joe. >> what? >> chinese food and ice cream. i see it in the future. >> new years prediction. >> lets move on to rudy giuliani. hes given this eyebrow raising, interesting interview to "new york" magazine. the reporter olivia newtsy. they went and dra...

This and these are his own words, quote, im not partial about this at all. he was asked about it this morning on fox news. >> do you think chuck schumers impartial? do you think elizabeth warren is impartial? >> no. >> bernie sanders is impartial? lets quit the charade. this is a political exercise. >> for mitch mcconnell, its a political exercise. shortly before air time i spoke with another senator, chris van holland. i want to ask you first about what we just heard from senator mcconnell. are...