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The democrats need to defend the process and need to go about this in the proper way. and i think thats the thing that will do them the best as this unfolds. >> all of our guests nice enough to be with us at 12:20 a.m. on a friday night have agreed to stay with us over the break as we talk about where this process heads next exactly as "the 11th hour," make that closer to the 12th, continues. ♪

Today white house counsel pat cipollone met with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on capitol hill. earlier tonight mcconnell spoke about strategizesing with the administration. >> everything i do during this im coordinating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the presidents position and our position. but well be working through this process hopefully in a fairly short period of time. theres no chance the presidents going to be removed from office. my hope is that ...

Before. theres a bit of a situation here like the child that kills his parents goes before the judge and begs for mercy because hes now an orphan. theres going to be an argument whether they had the vote tonight or if they had it in the morning. weve heard arguments from republicans about the process no matter what the process has been. i think that what garrett haake was reporting earlier tonight, what curts reporting today is absolutely right that the democrats simply felt like it was better f...

Texting back and forth with folks you know inside the room where it happened tonight. what can you add to our reporting? >> it was with eric swalwell asking him about this abrupt decision to end the hearing. heres what he said. he said i dont understand their complaints, the republicans complaints we heard, especially doug collins. they think we should vote in the dead of night. we want people to see what were doing. its a vote from impeachment. they do not want to have the headline that in the ...

Majority leader in the senate, as you heard him, working hand in hand, step by step? is there anything ethically wrong with it that you can see? >> well, its certainly not what the constitution intends. the constitution gives the congress, the house, the power to impeach the president, the senate the specific constitutional duty to try the president. and you know, you had peter baker on for. hes the expert in the clinton impeachment. i was in the clinton white house then. and what ill tell you i...

Thinks it will help him on the campaign trail when he travels the country boasting that he had been exonerated after the latest partisan witch hunt. but he nurses resentment over the red mark about to be tattooed on his page in the history books. as only the third president in history to be impeached. joining our conversation is our longtime political analyst and veteran journalist jonathan altar. curt pall bardella, jonathan allen, ron klain, and joyce vance, the few, the proud, the brave. mr. ...

Hand, step by step? is there anything ethically wrong with it that you can see? >> well, its certainly not what the constitution intends. the constitution gives the congress the house the power to impeach the president. the senate, the specific constitutional duty to try the president. peter baker is the expert on the clinton impeachment. i was in the clinton white house then. what ill tell you is that basically the democrats and the republicans came together to kind of come up with procedures t...

Here like the child that kills his parents goes before the judge and begs for mercy because hes now an orphan. there was going to be an argument here whether they had the vote tonight, there was going to be an argument if they had it in the morning. weve heard arguments from republicans about the process no matter what the process has been. i think that what garrett haake was reporting earlier tonight, what kurts reporting today is absolutely right that the democrats simply felt like it was bett...

Trial that he seems sure to win and thinks that it will help him on the campaign trail when he travels the country, boasting that he has been exonerated after the latest partisan witch hunt, but he nurses resentment over the red mark about to be tattooed on his page in the history books as only the third president in american history to be impeached. joining our conversation is our longtime political analyst and veteran journalist jonathan alter. still with us tonight, kurt bardella, jonathan al...

To defend the process. the republicans cannot defend the president, theyre demeaning the process. the democrats need to defend the process and need to go about this in the proper way. and i think thats the thing that will do them the best as this unfolds. >> all of our guests nice enough to be with us at 12:20 a.m. on a friday night have agreed to stay with us over the break as we talk about where this process heads next exactly as "the 11th hour," make that closer to the 12th, continues. [sneez...