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Place. mitch mcconnell has already said that the republican-led senate will acquit president trump. so he feels confident that they arent going to have any significant defects, if any at all. that remains to be seen, but the white house met privately with a group of about half a dozen republican senators on thursday in what is one of the first meetings to try and map out a strategy. i think that left of coordinate shows that republicans are taking their cues from the president. republicans disag...

Impeachment i think house democrats got maybe an hour. which is less time than we take to debate the naming of a post office on the impeachment vote. so both sides have flipped around. it is always a matter of perspective. this is a partisan effort which is the way impeachment trials run. >> you supported censuring the president as posed to impeaching. tell us why? >> because i think that if you want the impeachment merit badge, continue on the route were on. this is why i think nancy pelosi was...

Investigation, and inquiry, to inquire and to get answers to these questions that are posed. two, she knows this is divisive to the nation and she wants the public to be on her side and the side of impeachment. poll after poll, support for this inquiry and for impeachment is growing even among republicans and third, she wants bipartisan support and slowly that is trickling in. she knows and adam schiff has talked about this, at the end of the day even if the house votes to impeach and this is th...

Nancy pelosi said she needed a smoking gun and that is why she wants to have an investigation, an inquiry to inquire and get answers to these questions and she knows it is divisive to the nation and wants the public to be on her side and the side of impeachment in poll after poll, support for this inquiry and impeachment is growing even among republicans. third she wants bipartisan support. that is trickling in. she knows and adam schiff is talking about at the end the day of the house vote to i...

To happen. the house will impeach him and the senate will acquit. i feel things are much more dynamic than that. i feel we genuinely dont know whats going to happen and im curious having lived through watergate if you have that feeling too in. >> when we started the impeachment process after the saturday night massacre and the people said wait a minute were not a banana republic, wait a minute, congress, you do something. when we started it we did want know what an impeachment was, what a high c...

They then existed. since that time the house rules and committee rules have been changed. they have much greater power to issue subpoenas just by the chair, and they have much greater power to have staffdes than they had. so in those cases one of the purposes of the resolution was to increase the power beyond what the house had delegated through rules. its not linked to the ability to get information. >> in fact, in the subpoena document letter that was issued today by the oversight committees t...

Such an inquiry. that status will not and cannot change. leslie, where are we on impeachment tonight? >> on the impeachment front, as you know a few weeks ago it didnt go anywhere and the highest number we have right now is approximately 80 democrats. that is not a majority of democrats and certainly not a majority of democrats in the house they whitney. speaker pelosi has been clear, she needs this to be ironclad and bipartisan support. and we heard from congressman adam schiff who said we can ...