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Guide." thank you for being here. so how much do we know about the rules? how proscribed are the rules of the senate for conducting an impeachment trial? >> the constitution doesn't specify what we know from alexander hamilton and we might say senator mcconnell meet alexander hamilton, is the senate is supposed to be independent and supposed to be impartial. and the whole idea is not to be closely coordinated with the person who's accused of committing an impeachable offense. so that's built into the leading commentary on the founding document. >> if that is not adhered to, if for example sena...

Going to come up. but he didn't care. why? because all he cares about is what the boss is going to say? making fun of addiction? you pretend to care about mental illness. you should be ashamed. all of you. he's just a symptom of a problem. running from the facts is one thing. that's about strategy. embracing conspiracies, attacking frailties like illness and vulnerable kids -- are you part of the government or the goon squad? without fear or favor, right? that's the phrase about aplaying the law and yet you act out of fear and only to earn favor with one man. you took an oath to check the pres...

Put forward. and the republicans basically kind of danced around it. but they couldn't really weaken the constitutional foundation for the democrats' actions today. >> elliott, i have lawrence tribe, the esteemed professor who helped draft these articles of impeachment. we'll have a conversation with him about why they look the way they do later. but you know where i'm going with this. >> i do. >> you made it easier for the republicans to vote. you don't have the goods by not including specific crimes because most americans don't know this stuff the way you do. >> most americans don't understa...

About bribery and extortion and the mueller end points and then it doesn't come out so you read the tea leaves and that is an interesting pivot. the articles are weak. jillian: what about bribery and abuse of power? >> great question because bribery has two ways to look at it. bribery is listed in the constitution as grounds for impeachment, scholars said bribery is listed in the constitution doesn't have to meet elements of bribery but to answer in simple english, much stronger bribery. rob: assumed this gets through the house, here is mitch mcconnell. >> the case is so darn week coming over ...

Things done. it was flushed by the impeachment because it made bill clinton raw and angry at republicans. he wanted retribution and the see the thing in president trump. we thought clinton days the town had become impossibly partisan and polarized. seems like a quaint small town america to think back 25 years to where we are today. >> one argument made by republicans, laura, is that there's no crime that president trump committed. democrats point out accurately the constitution doesn't actually require a crime for impeachment even with the mention of high crimes and misdemeanors. an interestin...