we couldn t have any witnesses. they re not allowed to ask a question. because it s the minority. we have no lawyers. we can t question. so you know, you hear that over and over again. now we move to the formal impeachment hearing stage and they re saying they likely won t participate. allies are telling us that this is because they don t want to validate the impeachment process but keep this in mind. the list is extensive of what exactly a white house counsel could do. they could cross-examine some of the witnesses and potentially call their own witnesses. president trump could cross-examine some of these witnesses so it is a wide breadth of opportunity for the white house counsel if they choose to take it. i know the intel committee is preparing this report on the impeachment findings. do we know how that s going to be used by the judiciary and i m assuming that that is in part their way of trying to, this whole process get the public
you are live in the cnn newsroom. the ball is in the president s court tonight, and the clock is ticking. president has been hit with a new impeachment deadline after jerry nadler informed trump and his legal team that they have until next friday to decide if they want to take part in any of the impeachment proceedings in that committee. now that includes calling witnesses and presenting evidence. in other words, exactly what the president and his team have been asking for. there was no due process, you can t have lawyers we couldn t have any witnesses. they re not allowed to even ask a question. because it s the minority. we have no lawyers. we can t question well, now he can have all of that. but will he take up the democrats offer?
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until tomorrow night to tell the judiciary committee whether president trump or his lawyers will show up to participate in the first hearing on wednesday. it wouldn t be the president as jeremy said, he ll be away. it will be his lawyers. then the other deadline on friday. this is what we ve heard up until now from the president. take a listen. there was no due process. you can t have lawyers. we couldn t have any witnesses. they re not allowed to ask a question. we have no lawyers. we can t question. so matt, how does that argument hold up if they turn down these offers to participate? it won t hold up but it doesn t matter. it s all you re going to argue whatever benefits you today. republicans were arguing how horrible it was that they were having those behind-closed-doors secret hearings. once they started having public hearings they started arguing, this is horrible, showboating,
lawsinglaws. so i agree with you. there is not about why donald trump is flow good. this is a question about what are you, what am i going to do differently and that s going to change american lives for the better. but talk about term limits quite a bit the last debate. why do you think term limits in congress would be a positive change for our democracy? well, simply put, alex, i think that if you want bold change, we re going to need new and different people in charge. and that s really what term limits is about. but all of the things i m talking about structurally have to do with the idea of taking the power and pushing it to the american people. as i ve tried to do for the last decade. and the question that people should be asking themselves, who can i trust to make that change? and do i really want the power to reside with the people or the politicians because i m one of the people who absolutely wants to push power down, back to the people so we can take back our