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It is clear what this moment requires. it requires the senate to fulfill our founding purpose. the framers built the state to provide stability, to take the long view, of our republic, to safeguard institutions from the momentary hysteria that sometimes consumes our politics. to keep partisan passions from boiling over. the senate exists for moments like this. that's why this body has the ultimate say in impeachments. the framers knew the house would be too vulnerable to transient passions and violent -- they

Everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. this story is something. a month's long spat between two of president trump's top health care officials is boiling over. both, it seems for now, have managed to keep their jobs after a meeting mediated by vice president mike pence and the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney last week. rene marsh has the latest. >> thank you all for joining us and i'll hand things over to administrator verma. >> reporter: the bitter battle between two of president trump's top health care officials is now out in the open. health secretary alex azar an...

We're talking watergate, like the days in june '74, when the white house knew it had to bargain up something. they tried to offer transcripts of the big tapes if you remember. >> yeah. >> they're bargaining now in a way they haven't done before, and i don't buy trump's, you know, insouciance about it. i think they know there's hot water here, and they want to keep it from being, you know, boiling over. >> i could continue on, but unfortunately we're out of time. i've got to get to a lot of show here. thank you so much. i appreciate all of you. so the president facing impeachment. how exactly...

It's also trying to sort of trade the assets of the people of the united states for rank personal gain, and it's having, you know, run through the raindrops with the collusion charge on russia before, he's turned around and very brazenly done the same kind of conduct. i think it is impeachable. it certainly merits the inquiry, and i think that's the reason actually for the senate vote here. i think mcconnell began to get pressure from his own people, and they have to do something. and this is a little bit, if we're talking watergate, like the days in june '74, when the white house knew it had ...

Of course, in the russia investigation. the date has been set, but now there's news that lawmakers are still negotiating. manu raju, cnn's congressional correspondent is on the hill following all of this. what are you hearing? >> there's been pushback in the recent days from particularly krats on the house judiciary committee concerned that there's not going to be enough time under the previous agreement to bring robert mueller in. initially he had agreed to testify for two to two and a half hours, first before the house judiciary and then the intelligence committee for the time period, but be...