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They could have taken but they rushed it because its political instead of something critical to the heath of the republic. i think the democrats would have ben bitted themselves by waiting and not asking mitch mcconnell to do it for them. >> their argument, there was urgency, they had to do it now, impeach now, because these things keep happening that they say are interfering in the 2020 presidential election. what are your thoughts on that, charley? >> well, look, the white house has clearly be...

Trumps election i felt like a stinging rebuke of all we believe inned, the more i thought about it, the worse i felt. you had early dealings with michael flynn who was going to be your successor and national security -- >> he was my successor for 24 days. >> and you predicted -- well, in the book you say you predicted this guy aint going to last. what did you see that seemed fragile? >> interestingly not the man we all saw at the republican convention shouting lock her up but rather quite subdue...

We heard it clearly. the president calling mcconnell a smart guy, a fair guy, saying the ball is in his court and not reserving the right the say but i want to have my say as well. we know there are back channels discussions happening between both offices because mitch mcconnell himself has said thats the case, but i think this was the president looking to get out there and make sure his point of view is well represented, not just on twitter, but on camera as well. what he said substantively was...

The plas tisty of this process, about what we understand about impeachment, about how were all still reckoning with and trying to understand whats happening here. >> thats a good word. it is remarkable how sparse the constitution is when it talks about impeachment. the chief justice has to preside, but thats it. and the debate between noah and lawrence isnt settled by the constitution. its not settled by precedent because its never happened before. if someone were to sue the house to require the...

Mitch mcconnell provides a guarantee of a fair trial. >> 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. >> a rogue senate leader. pelosi arguing there theres a kind of collusion to prevent the fair trial, and shell hold back the articles. ill tell you something. substantively, this may not work all that well because the fact is...

Administration in the form of the members of the house and the senate as well as in the white house itself, have not put forward. as a counter narrative. the underlying facts remain untestified to by the trump team. theyve not challenged the accuracy of the call between the president and zelensky. in fact, when you saw today, congressman collins and then others were repeatedly asked about, was it a good call, was it a perfect call? they would not answer that question. >> what does that tell you?...

Take our notes and participate in discussion, substantively, though. mr. trump did nothing wrong. each and every action of the president has been explained. we have offered the basis, the understanding. weve gained an understanding for why a president would have reasonable concern about ukraine, why a president would have specific concern about this biden/burisma nexus. you havent heard any defense of burisma. you havent heard them all say this is all bogus, the president should not have been as...

Speak for sort of i guess editing a bill. except this isnt any ordinary bill coming out of judiciary committee. it is an indictment of the president of the united states. >> yeah. thats right. and i wouldnt expect to see any edits actually taking place. yeah. you had the matinee today of the ig hearing. tonight, starting around 7:00, youll have the start of this markup. itll stretch over two days. and, yeah, democrats, ultimately, whose resolution this is, dont anticipate there being any substan...

Of this. bill, weve got a lot to get to here. the third piece of this is what were learning about the actual case and the actual articles. and it was very interesting today in another exchange with reporter, garrett haake, pelosi not wanting to speak to the big question of other alleged obstruction. take a look. >> do you want to see elements of the mueller report or these other -- >> im not going to talk about that. im not going to talk -- my chairman will be making recommendations. >> do you h...

That. theyre just going to go straight to it. now there is a pretty good argument. maybe they want to actually take a little more time, try and force these subpoenas to come out in court. it does seem like the administration has been acting like they have something really to hide. >> what do you think is key substantively that should come out of wednesdays judiciary hearing? >> i think wednesdays judiciary hearing is going to be four constitutional law experts, three of whom are democratic selec...