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Senate and his negotiations to get a trial that includes witnesses. maybe this will, perhaps most importantly for democrats, give the opportunity to hammer home the message that based on what mitch mcconnell has said about his relationship to the white house, about the fact that hes not, quote, impartial when it comes to this trial, that this isnt going to be a fair process, a process that you and i and everybody up here in the senate is going to eventually lead to the acquittal of the president...

Would there be witnesses? there is one thing everybody in the united states senate agrees on, democrat or republican. and that was everybody was going to get the holidays. no matter when the impeachment articles came over, they were going to get agreement to break until sometime the first week of january. i will say this. when you talk to democrats, they have been so keyed on the idea that it only takes four republican senators to come there way to essentially guarantee the trial procedures they...

What im also going to do if im the democrats, long term. play for 2020. go after the vulnerable republican senators who are running. hang mcconnell and trump on them because theyre going all in supporting this, right? well, guess what? if you got 50% of this country saying they didnt want this guy impeached and removed, i would say gardner, tillis, ernst, who else? collins and a few others, hey, guys, vulnerable senators, they went all in. they defied the constitution. they defied their oath. th...

This is exactly what our framers spoke about when they developed the mechanism for impeachment. they understood that one day a president might advance his own personal political or financial interests at the expense of our national interest and not advancing the public good but his own personal good. and thats why they developed articles of impeachment. this is the only remedy in the constitution. we have no other choice but to do what we did. we took an oath. we need to honor that oath. and wha...

>> my sense is not great, chris. >> because? >> i have spoken to a lot of republicans today who feel that this is, if anything, a gift to mitch mcconnell. this is something that they are in no rush on the senate side to proceed with, but also the argument that youre going to see republicans use to really an i mate the case for trump is theyre going to say, pelosi is making the case as are house democrats that donald trump is a national emergency. and yet she is holding off on the process that os...

Is aen itting threat. how can you justify any delay? >> i dont think anyone is suggesting there is going to be any unnecessary delay. the speaker said at the press conference that she wants to see what the process is so she can make an informed judgment about who will best mag thnage that. look, lets focus on the important thing here. this is a serious action by the house. we have accused the president of two very serious crimes. >> uh-huh. >> the senate has a responsibility to try the president...

Why not preserve the integrity of the impeachment? the people who are trivializing this process are the president. when he says things like, im benefiting from impeachment, this impeachment is great for my political advantage, thats trivializing the process. >> justin amash, as you know, house manager possibility here, thesis house managers are folks who are named by speaker pelosi to prosecutor the case in the senate. a group of freshman house democrats want pelosi to name justin amash as a hou...

Militarys investigation into possible white power signs flashed by students at this weekends army/navy game. well get to that in just a moment. but lets start in washington on this weeks historic vote. msnbcs garrett haake is on capitol hill. nbcs hans nichols is at the white house. mr. hake, ill start with you there on the hill. this just-released, 658-page impeachment report, it came out overnight ahead of this possible house vote on wednesday. what are the top lines in this report? >> a littl...

Nothing to do with what the president is accused of doing or his chief political rival, which remains joe biden. so, you know, well have a quick -- well end up with a quick trial. but to your question, i think they do -- schumer does have leverage, and heres where he has leverage. half the country, and 50% of the country, wants this president to be impeached, and some portion of them, a majority, a large majority of those 50% want him not only impeached, but removed from office. that puts tremen...

Juror. senator lindsey graham has been giving a lot of interviews saying hes not impartial. whats going to be interesting here, unlike the house where you have leadership controlling every little bit of movement of this and has been a top-down experience from nancy pell owes toy her chairmen, who have been leading the fight on this in the senate. each senator can call for witnesses themselves. they can make this, muck it up, the process, a lot more. thats why youre seeing this opening salvo betw...