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Proposals which call for more high-profile trump administration witnesses. >> democrats case is this deficient, its not for the judge and jury to cure it here in the senate. the house should not impeach on this basis in this first place. >> reporter: chuck schumer requested subpoenas for, among others acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security adviser john bolton. >> what is leader mcconnell afraid of? what is president trump afraid of, the truth? but the american people wa...

For the debate during tomorrows impeachment vote as both sides fight over whether witnesses will appear at a senate trial come january. joining me now discuss constitutional lawyer and former justice department official. bottom line, youre no maga hat trump supporter but you dont think democrats have made the case effectively. >> they havent. ive been critical of that all along. they have not sold the public on impeachment. you had constitutional scholars who have done a great job talking about ...

Then quote you have so little respect for the american people you expect them to believe that youre approaching impeachment somberly, reservedly. no intelligent person believes what you are saying. you know, thats not accurate. >> actually, i think that speaker pelosi whether you like her not has done an excellent job of keeping it somber and serious and avoiding a circus. if you have been watching what senator schumer has been doing for the past two days, hes trying to do the same thing. i dont...

Of comity where people can come together. >> mcconnell is facing pressure from the white house, although it does seem they succumbed to this idea mcconnell might know what hes doing here. at the end of the day mcconnell needs to protect his majority. thats the calculus. i interviewed a senator from indiana who is pretty conservative and he said in line what mcconnell said about mutually assured destruction, thats just to get this done quickly and unlikely to change his mind and he doesnt think a...

Back then. that would be nice if thats what congress was up to. what the senate minority leader clearly wants is a do-over. he acknowledged in his letter to mcconnell that the house case is unpersuasive. it hasnt affected public opinion definitively for impeachment. in fact, we see some movement against impeachment in the polling numbers. what is schumers strategy? reopen the case by getting as few as three republican senators to flip over on questions of rules. and then reopen the case by intro...

Of cases. >> bret: do we see political repercussions, can we see the crystal ball yet? >> we havent seen a big ground swell for impeachment and we havent seen a big backlash to impeachment. even though big majorities thought what the president did was wrong, the question whether he should be impeached and removed because of it is evenly split. now were seeing a little change, no impeachment numbers going up. we know that trumps base has become more energized and upset about impeachment, but i do...

Problem over to our kids and grandkids. we want you thinking impeachment when it moves to the senate for trial that there should be witnesses? the democrats are pushing for that. we are told that getting the thing done with seems fast. >> neil: thats a parlor game tactic on the part of schumer in the sense that he knows that if we do witnesses come up there would be a request to bring hunter, joe biden, the whistleblower. that was dead on arrival. i think somebody referred to it as mutually assu...

Process on the side in the house. early on, you put out that letter i sent to speaker pelosi. why dont we give the exact same rights that bill clinton got, that nixon got? due process where we could pick witnesses? the democrats got to pick every witness they wanted. republicans got to pick known and now schumer is complaining about that. they got to pick everybody. they are finding the poll numbers dropping. they are losing independence. its because, you look at jared fangio, is listening to hi...

Senators, particularly republican senators will have a choice. do they want a fair honest trial that examines all the facts or do they want a trial that doesnt let the facts come out. trials have witnesses. >> is witnesses include mick mullaney, john bolton, robert blair and michael duffy, suggesting start dates for mitch mcconnell who indicated he does not envision a long and drawn out trial, he will meet with schumer to discuss the contours of a trial. we could hear more from mcconnell today b...

Shumer of being hypocritical. they called for no witnesses when bill clinton was impeached or in the senate trial back then, but schumer pushes back on that and says it was different back then because this time around these witnesses did not testify in front of the house. it is the first time for them to hear the facts as laid out by those individuals, it appears the president, his team, and republicans that they are working in corroboration. >> how does kellyanne conway make the point to you. i...