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Want to play a little bit of spee speaker pelosi who shows this is more than rules and constitutional text, she also shows that she more so than other folks in washington gets how to deal with this pr-obsessed president. >> our founders when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president. i dont think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. >> kurt, on the level of fighting strategy, politics, what ...

Important fundamental rule that the president is not above the law. thats why the framers put this impeachment process into the constitution and didnt just say, well, well wait for elections. and there is, looking on the positive side going through this process, well let people know that our democracy still exists. on the other hand i think, you know, were all sort of worried by if mcconnell tries to run it as a situation where, you know, were not going to listen to the facts. were just going to...

What does it require? when speaker pelosi formally gavelled in these house votes, it was a constitutional requirement for the senate. begin a trial of the president, and there is no debate about that requirement. >> well, under the senate rules were required to take it up if the house does go down that path, and well follow the senate rules. >> trial of donald trump will define him in history and provide a frame work for americans to assess evidence of his conduct heading into this campaign. no ...

President until donald trump took office. >> we used to care about democracy. we used to care about our allies. we used to stand up to putin and russia. we used to. you may one day be in the majoritiment and you will want to hold a president accountable. and what will you say when that president says you are a paper tiger. you have no oversight. i can ignore your subpoenas. what will you say? >> what will you say? what will you do? what will the senate do in the new year. anyone that tells you t...

>> do you kswear that pertainin to the impeachment of william jefferson clinton, president of the united states now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws so help you got? >> trumps trial will be presided over by john roberts, a conservative who is known for sometimes breaking with republicans on political matters. it limits the presidents power. so trump cannot pardon impeachment cases. he cant pardon himself if he were convicted. but thats about it for th...

How does it go down? well, the answer differs from most government proceedings. we will talk you through amazing examples and footage. the trial of a president basically has three layers. the first is the constitution, which has ironclad rules for the trial and a high bar for kicking presidents out of office. now, thats set in stone. totally unchangeable. the second layer are the current senate rules originally passed in 1986 that provide how the trial runs. when you hear senators say what the r...

Witnesses and add them later or start with a plan to hear witnesses and vote not to hear them. senators can get votes on all of this. thats what senator schumer is talking about when he says that no matter how this kicks off, they can get later votes on specific trump witnesses. >> i will ask during the impeachment proceeding for a vote on whether mulvaney should testify and whether bolton should testify. any republican who thinks they can escape having to vote on this, no matter how quickly mit...

Rules give the first call to the chief justice. but the senators have the final call. sometimes the judge can lead and his call will hold. most of our footage tonight is from the one televised impeachment trial. but take an example from the 1868 trial of president johnson. the chief justice ruled about senators deliberating behind closed doors. 130 laters we found he cited that for ruling on an open trial until senators closed the door to deliberate. >> and chief justice chase in the andrew john...

Question. it is a work shoot where you mix reality and fiction into one spectacle. >> well, hes played himself, and i mean that in the brooklyn sense. >> great points all around. i have to fit in a break because we have so much in the special. my thanks to maya and kurt. coming up, as promised, we have a breakdown of how it works, the precedence, the rules and amazing footage i want to show you. we will speak to the countrys leading historian of what this means for the long view. and thomas fr...

>> how would you like to do without witnesses? that is mr. graham. this is also where the rules matter because the constitution requires a senate trial but not of my particular length. the senate can make those decisions as the trial goes. in the clinton case, the senate voted to both continue the trial and add those three witnesses. >> there were two critical votes today, and the republicans held all the members in line. votes to dismiss the trial and to subpoena witnesses. here is how the vote...