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To immediately send the articles of impeachment to the senate, that opened this whole thing up, and then mitch mcconnell at 9:30 this morning and chuck schumer this morning on the senate floor and nancy pelosi -- the most important thing by far that weve learned in all of this is your interview with chuck schumer and what you just summarized there where hes telling us all of the democrats are with him. that is not an easy thing to achieve. >> right. yes. >> and hes got that, and thats very power...

Acquittal in the senate, so what theyre looking at is a fight over the witnesses, the debate pram t parameters and the hearing rules, it was a stronger leg for them to stand on and it can muddy the process. and that is what youre seeing senate democrats do now with schumer. talking about fair trials and things, focusing on the process like house republicans did. >> were going to leave it there, we have more to cover including answers to our three big questions of the week. first seven candidates...

Theyve got to be worried about running in rettics that might not be thrilling in some cases. >> it was nicolle wallace that really got my attention last night when she said this is not baked at all. shes looking at three or four senators and how they answer the question -- who doesnt want to hear from john bolton? >> exactly. and i heard -- i was told this evening that meeting between schumer and mcconnell that -- >> mcconnell says its cordial. >> mitch mcconnell is good at this and hes always s...

Congressman clyburn, the whip of the majority say that it might never go to the senate, so who should i believe, castro or clyburn. >> yeah, i was asking a lot of lawmakers and aides about that yesterday, and most of them said that they wholly believe that the articles are going to be transferred, that theres not a lot of appetite among house democrats to actually hold these indefinitely. so everyone is saying that they are going, they are most likely going to be transferred over to the senate, ...

Primary too. >> and eugene, it was nicolle wallace who really got my attention last night when she said this is not baked at all, shes looking at three or four republican senators and how they answer the question, who doesnt want to hear from john bolton. >> exactly. >> who doesnt want to hear from john bolton. >> exactly. i heard, or i was told this evening that meeting between schumer and mcconnell, that, you know. >> mcconnell was cordial. >> he said he was cordial. mitch mcconnell is really ...

Documents. >> reporter: and those votes on witnesses could be interesting. typically in these inter-party standoffs, the party that stands the most united wins. the democrats are lined up behind schumer and pelosi, who is flexing a little bit in a year-end interview that she gave to politico in which she says she is not afraid of anything and is rarely surprised. pelosi holds some of the cards here over the next two weeks and one of the things shes beth on and i think kelly will probably talk ab...

Avenue, a reassuring signal perhaps from mitch mcconnell that the interests of the president will be mcconnells own interest to try to tamp down the likelihood that the president would use his patience in a way that might not serve his own best interest. so that kind of attention point where certainly mcconnell, who has been an observer of this president for three years understands some of those dynamics and trying to keep things from getting off the rails in terms of what is still a dynamic sit...

Broadcast this morning. >> thank you. >> all right. were waiting to hear live right here from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he is expected to call the impeachment inquiry now wrapped up in the house the most rushed, least thorough, most unfair in modern history. thats his take. then well probably hear from schumer after that. youll see it all live right here. were also moments away from the opening bell on wall street. the dow struggling a little bit to take off. it looks like at the...

So hopefully it will be fair and when we see what that is, well send our manages. >> your take of this as a political maneuver? >> this is the only leverage she has and schumer has. i think theyre working together. he signalled this i think when he put out his letter about the four witnesses. this all comes down to a last effort to get bolton and mulvaney to raise their right hand and tell the american public what they know under oath. the leverage comes from the fact that trump wants to be acqu...

About the direct ties go and testify. but it is interesting to see how mcconnell and schumer are presenting these dueling visions of whats going to happen. were not getting a lot of light shed on whats going to happen and when those articles of impeachment are actually going to be transmitted. >> manu, i know were hearing from pelosi in 15 minutes so shell hopefully tell us then but do you have any intel on -- is her demand at this point i am not going to transfer these articles to the senate un...