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Clinton. so lets get the time machine and watch today and then. >> we havent ruled out witnesses. weve said lets handle this case just like we did with president clinton. fair is fair. >> every other impeachment has had witnesses. its not unusual to have witnesses in a trial. >> okay. >> so theyll have witnesses right? >> sounds like well have witnesses. >> he seems to be appealing to the clinton impeachment era in the hopes that democrats are going to see that as oh, yeah, sure, lets go along w...

Bizarre. >> everybody has dreams or thoughts, fantasies back in time somewhere. and he put it together for the modern age. >> are you telling me you built a time machine out of a delori an? >> the way i see it, if you could build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style. >> it is a mystery it was as big of a hit as it was when it came out. but the real mystery is it endurred for decades. >> were sending you back to the future. >> a simple idea which is what would it be like to se...

614, i hearby deliver these articles of impeach. would you hold this? >> that was december 19th, 1998. almost 21 years to the day of today -- >> i remember where i was. >> do you? i dont know that i remember where i was but i remember the era well. and thats when the house voted to impeach president clinton and hand delivered the articles of impeachment. what can the country expect this time around? joining us are two clinton white house insiders. we have former white house press secretary joe l...

Itself. >> if its better than it looks, theyll show you. if its worse than it looks, theyll shut up and thats what hes doing. >> why would you not want additional fact witnesses? i think ari melber showed just before this had henry hyde who was the judiciary chairman when they impeached clinton saying we expected the senate would ask them to testify at trial, at impeachment trial in the senate. if not, why not? >> i think the house has done a great job. congresswoman thank you for your role so f...

>> but we do know the facts after weeks of testimony despite the white house blocking key witnesses. the president asked a foreign power to dig up dirt on a domestic political rival full stop. no one should be an impeachment enthusiast, but the facts arent being disputed. theyre being ignored because theyre not helpful to the republican argument. facts exist, facts matter. simply saying the opposite doesnt make it so, and thats your reality check. >> the president told us that he wanted ukraine ...

December 19th, 1998. that was the day the house of representatives voted to impeach president bill clinton. two articles of impeachment passed the house. well, today 21 years later, the house is poised again to vote on two articles of impeachment. this time against president trump. so how will this time look different? joining us now, two veterans of the clinton impeachment. joe lockhart former white house press secretary and paul begala who was a white house adviser. gentlemen, there could be t...

Their country and their oath of office ahead of their party and their curious allegiance to this president. >> that is such a difference than what were hearing today. okay. paul begala, your turn. heres the time machine when we go back to a younger and almost as handsome paul begala that day. >> it has been, i think, bitterly partisan. and not in a way that the framers of the constitution probably would have admired. when the house republicans led by speaker groundhog are rushing out grand jury ...

Hapless war secretary that gets caught taking tons of bribes and has to resign so he wont get in trouble. i mean, that appendix in the watergate report in 1974, that was the full history of impeachment in this country. theres not that many of them. and a lot of them are for small fries who got caught for doing small thing. in the modern era there is one relatively recent impeachment case that turns out to be a weirdly perfect precedent for what happened today in the impeachment proceedings again...

I mean, that appendix in the watergate report in 1974, that was the full history of impeachment in this country. theres not that many of them. and a lot of them are for small fries who got caught for doing small things. in the modern era there is one relatively recent impeachment case that turns out to be a weirdly perfect precedent for what happened today in the impeachment proceedings against trump. so perfect that i kind of cant believe its real. i kind of feel somebody must have gone back wi...

Tool. cnns jamie gengel is here to explain. you really have gone in the time machine and gone way back. >> i asked them personally. i spoke to hamilton. it turns out in 1789 they were pretty good at looking into the future. so we looked, we asked three historians to help us look back at what were the founders so worried about, how did they come up with those now familiar terms high crimes and misdemeanors. and it turns out, they were worried about presidents living up to these words. >> i frankl...