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Information from congress? >> no, it's not kpon it. they did not submit a single document to us, mr. cole, that was subpoenaed in this process and the president essentially ordered everyone in the executive branch not to cooperate with us. that's a dramatic escalation in kind and in degree over anything that's ever been seen before. and that includes richard nixon who i think tried to block seven or eight particular asks like the watergate tapes, and that ift became part of the case against him for abuse of power, but president trump makes richard nixon look like a little leaguer when it kochc...

Template of what the trial would look like in the old senate chamber, and the democratic and republican leader had a press conference together. so they made the decisions about witnesses, maybe they didn't agree, but -- >> yeah, and although notably in the house, in the clinton impeachment process, the rules and procedures were actually adopted unanimously. so that bipartisanship obviously isn't here now. one of the interesting things, i talked to one of the house managers from clinton a few days ago. what he was saying is he was very disappointed and upset with the senate rules then because h...

>> we have an issue of consultation. >> we'll look that up and by the time we get back, we'll get you that answer. let me again remind everybody here why we're here today. it's easy to get caught up into the weeds and talk about process. i'm willing to work with the minority on the schedule. >> we have confrontations in our committee. putting it in a letter is fine, but it's still not true. >> it's what he said, doug. >> i would ask that to be part of the record as well. let me just remind everybody why we're here. as i said over and over again, the president abused his power in office for his...

It's a matter of how you go about it and to say this is unheard of just isn't right. >> i would ask both of you, this just gets to the point you're making. there is a normal conversations process for resolving disputes between the house and the senate, is that correct? >> yes. >> that process hasn't occurred here, mr. collins. i think that's what you're telling me. it doesn't serve neatly into the speaker's impeachment at christmas timeline, to borrow your way of looking at it. we're not really engaged. this is a normal give or take where both sides manage to avoid an exchange where they might...

Really. i mean, i respect mr. ham r rafr sflt. talk about numbers. at some point those with the ranking member's phone number, they had to look for the ranking member's phone number. this has gotten screwed up so bad. i know they want to gloss over the process, they want to gloss over everything. this is what we're talking about but they don't want to talk about it. to say nobody was doing this intentionally, they're just not being factual accurate. >> who specifically sklz. if i could just say, mr.