status of the conversations or negotiation, are. obviously there s pelosi on the house side withholding sending over the articles and announcing impeachment and the conversation with schumer and mcconnell. what is your sense of the status of those conversations? are those active conversations right now? my understanding is that senator schumer and senator mcconnell met just a few days ago. they had a preliminary conversation. senator schumer indicated that a fair trial required the ability to call the witnesses that we ve talked about as well as get the documents, and senator mcconnell was unwilling to do that, and so that s where we are right now, and speaker pelosi is continuing to seek those assurances as she should. i mean, she s got to send over house managers. she wants to have some sense of what the trial will look like. that s where we are right now, and i think, you know, speaker pelosi s decision has opened up a very important public conversation, which we would not really
to stop him. are republican colleagues going to say there is anything wrong and unconstitutional about asking a foreign power to engage in our democracy and take power away from we the people which is really where the president derives his power from we the people. has chairman nadler given you who ll be selected to be if house managers to go to the senate floor to present the case against donald trump in the senate trial? no, we have not talked about it at all. we are focused on you know doing the work in front of us. that s i think is going to be speaker pelosi s decision. we have big work to do here as we finish up tomorrow. i think the republicans did not interrupt very much, they didn t try to bring down the prece
people. has chairman nadler given you any idea who ll be selected to be house managers, to go to the senate floor to present the case against donald trump in the senate trial? no, we have not talked about it at all. we are focused on, you know, doing the work in front of us. that is, i think, going to be speaker pelosi s decision. we have big work to do here as we finish up tomorrow. i think the republicans did not interrupt very much, they didn t try to bring down the proceedings tonight. i think tomorrow we may see them once again trying to object and disrupt, taking us away from this crucial question of our constitution. and congresswoman, i know you have to be back out at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, we thank you very, very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence.
from office. bret: john kennedy talked to this and talked about how senators, especially on the g.o.p. side are talking about it. number one, the president asked, allegedly for the investigation of a political rival. that s a speaker pelosi s decision. but the alternative scenario is that the president asked for an investigation of possible corruption in which a political rival may have been involved. there is a mighty difference between those two. bret: i guess some senators are get into the arguments of, we are going to stand by the president. this call was not perfect, but it s not impeachable. writes. i think you will also hear the additional talking point from republicans that while the conduct might have been inappropriate, it is not the senate s place to remove a president in the election year when the voters are going to
sent a letter to mr. trump asking him to move the date or deliver the speech in writing because of security caused by the shutdown. hundreds of people working on the logistics and security of it, most of those people are either furloughed or victims of the shutdown, the president s shutdown. but that isn t the point. the point is security. make no mistake, it is ultimately speaker pelosi s decision whether president trump delivers the address to a joint session. the house and senate must pass resolutions to green light the state of the union. neither has done so and pelosi controls whether the house will pass one at all. that has house minority leader kevin mccarthy all fired up calling on pelosi to act like a speaker and claims that the request is motivated by pure