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The court has found that it is a legitimate process. so, it really is an affront to checks and balances. and there you really would hope that there are enough senators who would say that's a bridge too far. >> and it's an argument that you would hope a republican would make. nancy pelosi put her side's argument yesterday in a frame of history, republicans playing for the political, not even minute, the political second. it's amazing. thank you so much for spending time with us. garrett haake, my friend, thank you for today and every day. you've been awesome. after the break, red-faced and sw...

Knows with regards to the president's tick tock of the day, and exactly what he's going to be doing while this vote takes place. >> we know that president trump can't let anything go unanswered, so we are sure to receive a tweet or some sort of response from him on the vote today, but what's interesting according to our reporting is that the president is really trying to roll out this counter programming to impeachment. he'll be joined by vice president mike pence in battle creek, michigan, later tonight hosting what they're calling a merry christmas rally, and he's going to use that as a way ...

Pick things out of it whether it's everyone will kind of come away from it with what they would like to see in it. as he did with the ig report, and we'll see that happen here. so it almost is a foregone conclusion. not that it doesn't matter what's in the report, but it doesn't in the sense that the president's going to say what he wants to aboutto it and he's gog to find things in there that suit his narrative, and his base is, again, primed to continue to hear this sort of narrative, in which the president is always the victim and theye are out t get him. >> phil, try to tie these two big h...

Means and the bar for impeachment and the president would be -- i mean, listen. a lot of people's estimation republicans are split on this. there are plenty of republicans who want a more aggressive and robust counter programming to democrats and those who just want to ignore it. i think we'll see the wisdom in the ignore it approach next week. it is not ambassador sondland, it's academics with nothing to do with this case and figure to leave it to the republican tons committee to defend the president. >> thank you. >> thank you. with tightening qualifications for the debate, she has proposa...

The witness to testify and they essentially equated it to somewhat, there is a fire somewhere and someone calls 911, and obviously, someone comes up, the fire department comes and puts out the fire, but the person who called 911 isn't necessarily the cause of the fire. they just alerted to the issue. so it is not clear what new information they are going to get out of the whistle-blower. but they appear to think that they can somehow get, you know, put a new perspective on this. >> president trump, julia, has continued his war of words against the house impeachment inquiry, especially at many ...