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>> speaker pelosi suggested that house democrats may be too afraid -- too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. >> mitch mcconnell ripping in to speaker nancy pelosi for not saying when she'll transfer the two articles of impeachment to the senate. admonishing house democrats for impeaching president trump so quickly without any republican support. >> this is by far the thinnest basis for any house-passed presidential impeachment in american history. the prosecutors are getting cold feet. in front of the entire country. >> senate democratic leader chuck schumer met...

>> it doesn't feel like impeachment. it's a phony deal and they cheapen the word impeachment. it's ugly but they cheapened the word. >> article ii is adopted. >> the president also took aim at nancy pelosi for holding back on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. >> they're playing games. they don't want to put in their articles, their ridiculous, phony, fraudulent articles. and i think they're not allowed to do that. >> congressman van drew was one of two democratic no votes on the first article of impeachment, one of three on the second article. his defection has drawn scorn fro...

Nonetheless. even in the infancy of our nation there was a palpable fear of a unchecked chief executive. so nearly 230 years ago, when the framers gathered in philadelphia to sign the constitution, they found it necessary to include article ii, section 4, impeachment, a mechanism to remove a president for treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors fearing a return to to a british monarchy style of government. >> the framers of the constitution wanted to make sure the president would not grow into a king or dictator they wanted to mak sure there was something in the constitution to a...

Senate in 1986 and updated in 1999 for the clinton impeachment. the question is mitch mcconnell going to throw those rules out the window and follow what they did in the past. if he follows what they did in the past, there should be witnesses. one other thing i'd like to say, mitch mcconnell misstated the history on article ii. he said congress should have gone to the courts and that happened in the nixon case. absolutely false. the house judiciary committee refused to go to court. the supreme court ruled onyx on's executive privilege, but that was as a result of a subpoena by the special pros...

The weekend that van drew has signaled he will be switching parties. that hasn't happened yet. still, president trump is going to aim to claim victory around his no vote, andrea. >> that's a tough claim to make with all the huge headlines, "impeached," just to say, geoff bennett, right now nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell, competing news conferences this morning. nancy pelosi pointing out that they held firm, all those endangered moderate democrats, just about all of them, held firm. they lost two democrats on article i and three on article ii. >> you're right about that. and jeff van drew and...