President has ordered all of his subordinates, the whole executive branch, to stonewall and not participate in the election. It seems strange to say that since the president is blocking this, more evidence is therefore needed. Frankly the president s systematic refusal to engage with congress itself threatens the structure of the government, because if you cant impeach the president and you cant indict him, hes above the law. Thanks so much. The news continues. Want to hand over to don lemon for cnn tonight. Connected to those you love, u with the new iphone 11. So tmobile is giving you an iphone 11 on us for each new line of unlimited. For yourself, or up to a family of four. Keep your family connected, and hurry into tmobile today, to get up to four iphone 11s on us. Only at tmobile. Hi honey, we got in early. Yeah, and we brought steve and mark. Experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. 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There they are right in front of us. It was very interesting. It was all about the constitution. Shes saying its not about the election. Gloria borger is here, mark henderson, north kor henderson. I thought it was fascinating. She said she would have no regrets that the exit polls showed it helped to reelect donald trump if that did happen. She did say to one of the questioners lets not even fathom that that does happen. But she didnt want to get ahead of today, did she . No, she didnt. And jake tapper tried to get her to say whether she personally believes the house should impeach trump. And we know from what she says that thats probably what she believes. But she stopped short of doing that. And i think thats because she understands this moment. She has said that she is not counting votes among democrats in the house. Shes not what we call whipping this vote. Shes letting people vote their conscience. And she is saying, look, this isnt about politics. Its about the constitution. We heard a lot of talk tonight about the founding fathers, about their vision. And as she said, she passed a threshold today when she said, okay, we need to write these articles of impeachment. But when jake tried to sort of figure out what might be in those articles, and we have a general idea from listening to the judiciary committee, of course, she wouldnt give that away either. She said, you know, its kind of a group effort to compose these articles. So, she doesnt want to get ahead of her caucus, but we sure know what direction theyre headed in. Very serious tone. Oh, very. Very serious tone this evening. Mark preston, i just want to play this moment. I want you to react to it. Its from tonights town hall, nancy pelosi reacting to the president saying that she had a nervous fit this morning. Watch this. The president is a master at projecting. When you call someone else nervous, hes the nervous one. When he suspects somebodys not praying, hes probably not praying. But i do pray for him because he is the president of the United States and i pray god will open his heart to meeting the needs of people in our country. She did go on to she went on to say what her prayers were for the president , she prayed for his family, his safety, his health. Is she wrong, mark . I dont think shes wrong at all. She even went on to say even more reason so to pray for him because he doesnt believe her, meaning that shes taking pity on him. Look, nancy pelosi was put into a very interesting position today where she had to go out and defend her faith. Often you dont see democrats being put into that position, but she chose to bring that up and to try to put this into context to try to put everything into context and show that this isnt personal. When you tie that in to how she answered today about how methodically the house is going to go through these impeachment articles, how much effort has gone into it that this is not a rush to judgment, that she is somebody whos been saying that we need to slow down a little bit, lets make sure we get this right, i think that we heard that not only in her very, you know, answers that had to deal with the impeachment. But she also answered that way when she was talking about how she was feeling inside. Whether or not people believe that, ill leave that up to them. But it was certainly an interesting way to answer that question. And interesting back and forth between two very powerful leaders at this time in our history. Yeah. As gloria mentioned, she didnt want to talk about specific articles of impeachment tonight. How high are the states for democrats as they consider how broad or how narrow to make those articles . Yeah, i mean thats been a big question, right . Particularly if you are one of these democrats in these districts where trump won in 2016, socalled front line districts, i think there are 43 of them in the house. Those folks are some of the ones that tip the balance, right . There were a lot of democrats who wanted trump to be impeached, for the house to move forward with articles of impeachment and investigation right after the Mueller Report, right after the mueller testimony. But ukraine made it clear, right . That was the difference maker for not only nancy pelosi but a lot of those front line democrats and obviously adam schiff. But this is something that will have to be wrestling with. Do they bring in the Mueller Report . Do they bring in any of those the obstruction instances in the Mueller Report, part two, 10 or 11 instances of the president interfering, firing james comey, maybe wanting to fire mueller as well. So, thats a big question. What was interesting here is, you know, if you think about the clinton impeachment, it very much was sort of Newt Gingrich versus bill clinton. And here you have a sense that nancy pelosi doesnt want to make this about herself, right . She says the times have found us. That last question the woman asked about impeachment, this is a historic day, what do you want to be remembered for . She said she wanted to be remembered for other things like the Affordable Care act. So, this is something, its up to her caucus. Adam schiff is obviously important figure here. Nadler has a role in this as well. So, she obviously wants to talk about other things that her caucus is doing like those pieces of legislation, she said 400 on the senate at this point on Mitch Mcconnells desk. It seems like that phone call was a turning point for a lot of people. You know, gloria, how much of this process is being personally driven by the speaker . I would imagine a lot of it, right . Because she is the leader. Is she the hidden hand behind this process . I think nancy pelosi is somebody who listens to people. And remember i was just thinking about this as i was watching the town hall. Remember just over a year ago people were saying nancy pelosi shouldnt be speaker. She couldnt be speaker. Why would we have her as speaker. Shes too divisive. Shes old, shes divisive, shes this, shes not in touch with the younger generation, et cetera, et cetera. And then we have these iterations of her meeting with aoc and now theyre friends, right . We thought they would never get along. Nancy pelosi was kind of made for this in a funny way. And she has the gravity and she is a hidden hand in a way that allows people to come to a decision when theyre together with her. When the moderates in the house that nia was talking about and said this ukraine thing crosses the line, nancy pelosi announced, i believe it was within a day or so yeah. That they had to pursue this. Yeah. And so i think she leads by listening and following. Im not going to say women do that. But following her caucus wait, what are you saying, gloria . Nothing. And i think you hear that in the way she has risen to the gravity of the moment. Yeah. I think mark, shes saying i dont need directions. I know where im going. You know, don, you know whats interesting about nancy pelosi and to pick up what glorias saying right now, if you go back to day one, she was never pushing for impeachment. She was always the one, the governor, she was the one slowing it down a little bit. Lets be very methodical about it. She thought the best way to do it initially was to vote him out of office. Exactly. Well, understandably so because where she is on the political spectrum. But when it comes to the governing of the house and understanding what the political ramifications are for everybody in her caucus, all the democrats, whether they be liberal or centrists or even more conservative democrats, the bottom line is she is held together a caucus that was very much divided. And as they head into this impeachment vote, theyre going to be united. And that really does Say Something about her leadership through this. Thank you all the comment ive got to go. About this isnt going to be about impeachment was fascinating as well. Thank you. I appreciate it. President trump starting his day calling on democrats to impeach fast and nancy pelosi is giving him what he wants next. Have you ever worked with dr. Francis . Oh yeah, hes ok. Just ok . Guess who just got reinstated well, not officially. Nervous . Yeah. Yeah me too. Dont worry about it, well figure it out. Ill see ya in there just ok is not ok. 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And the president who started his day calling for congress to impeach him fast was back to the same old song, calling the whole thing a hoax. Its a hoax. Its a hoax. Its a big fat hoax. That material is just so, so tired. Hes going to need more of a defense than that. Once we see exactly what those articles of impeachment will be and start to get answers to another big question looming over all of this, what happens if impeachment moves to the senate . Here is the thing. The senate gets to make the rules. And a lot could change before the trial actually gets under way. But there are some things that we do know. The house votes on managers who act as prosecutors and present evidence in the senate trial. The chief justice of the Supreme Court, john roberts, would be sworn in to preside over everything and would then swear in senators who would then serve as jurors. Which raises a really interesting question. Will senators be allowed to speak . As the rules stand right now, and the rules could be changed, the answer is no. They can submit questions, but like jurors in any courtroom, they cannot speak. And lets face it, there are a lot of senators who love to speak. Senators will not be allowed to speak which should be good therapy for a number of them. Another big question. Will witnesses testify in person on the senate floor . Could republicans call hunter biden . Could they call the whistleblower . One republican telling cnn phil mattingly, quote, this could go off the rails very quickly. Democrats saying theres every chance someone rolls a hand grenade into the center of this process. That sounds promising. And then theres the question of when exactly the trial will take place. Nothing is set in stone. But senators are assuming it will start the first week in january and theyre predicting it could take anywhere from three to six weeks, which is probably why the 2020 Senate Calendar leaves out the month of january. Senate rules say they must be in session six days a week during the trial, which sure throws a Monkey Wrench into the campaign plans of senators vying to run against the president. So, lets get some perspective on all this. John dean is here. John, know this all too well, this must be deja vu for you. Thank you for joining us. You believe that House Speaker nancy pelosi should have the articles drawn up but not send them to the senate. Can you explain why you why are you saying that . I tweeted that because its one of the thoughts i had. Theres a big push to get this done quickly. Theres also a debate going on between schumer and Mitch Mcconnell about what the rules should be. Theyve been unable to reach agreement. It looks like Mitch Mcconnell is inclined to just do it his way and not let schumer have any play at all. Well, i think nancy pelosi has some real leverage in this. She doesnt have to send articles of impeachment to the senate. What happens, don, after theres a vote on the articles, they adopt a resolution where they select managers and then they decide when theyre going to send the managers over to the senate. So, theres a flexibility in the process where she could say listen, lets just hold these articles here until the senate gets its act together. And that could last right through the campaign as far as her powers. Its not unlike what Mitch Mcconnell did when he was given a Supreme Court nomination and he didnt want to have a hearing. You mentioned that. You talked about merit garlands skoe tus nomination. How is it different . Well, the process has flexibility built into it. Some can see it as an abuse of the process. Some can see it as use of the process. It all comes from your point of view. But i think that we shouldnt forget that if nancy pelosi decides she wants to exercise some leverage in this, shes got it. And she can tell the senate get your act together, do it fairly, or im going to sit on these through the campaign. Interesting. How do you think republicans would react to that if she did that . They would have a tizzy. They would they would a tizzy. They would say your case is so weak you cant dare bring it to the senate. They would make all kinds of claims. But the problem is those would be hanging over a lot of senators who are running for reelection. Seats up for grabs in 2020. And also be hanging over the president. What would be the impact of the people, the senators whose seats are up for grabs in 2020 . Well, i think it could have a positive i think it could be trouble for them if they dont want to vote for impeachment. A lot of people when they look at whats in those articles or what will be in those articles, theyre going to be horrified and they havent really focused on this. 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