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I think we have a graphic for this. it's interesting. >> were you up all night designing this in. >> i was counting on my fingers and toes. they lost five republicans on one of the articles that passed. they lost 12 republicans on one of the articles that passed. they lost 28 and 81 on a couple of the articles that did not pass. there were articles that failed. democrats lost five votes every time, basically. >> look. a couple of things to remember. the politics of impeachment and polling, public support of impeachment for bill clinton was never above 35%. yet you saw cross currents of defecti...

Look, i think first of all the reference to the deep state, what we saw a few weeks ago is that the deep state he has been referring to are decades long public servants who have been trying to work on the national interests of the united states which the context which the trump administration wants. >> i'll fight you on that one because i do believe just because a bunch of smart people are over at the state department doing what they think is the best thing for the country isn't maybe what the president wants to do, and by the way, he's the one that runs foreign policy, not them. >> they want ...

Seeking out businesses in ukraine. he tried to get a contract for security things in the capital. >> all over eastern europe and all sorts of places. look, i think first of all the reference to the deep state, what we saw a few weeks ago is that the deep state he has been referring to are decades long public servants who have been trying to work on the national interests of the united states which the context which the trump administration wants. >> i'll fight you on that one because i do believe just because a bunch of smart people are over at the state department doing what they think is the...

The time line, republicans think get this over and done with, already, but as garrett just pointed out, this thing is moving fast. >> it is but the clinton impeachment took five weeks. it takes time and the timing is very, very tricky for everybody. the house moderates want it off of their plate. they have to be in their seats and not speaking in the trial and they don't want to do that in the run up to iowa. so there is all kinds of cross currents about timing. yes, it is always just a political laoser, and you see that yes they said it was

Push them around. and that's palpable like force fields around them. i think that really helped. i will also say, brian, and i know you appreciate these kind of things, that the technical staffing of this debate and the technical production of this debate was flawless. sometimes at big events like this, big boisterous events like this with lots of cross-currents, lots of different voices, some of the things that go -- sometimes what goes wrong is that people can't necessarily hear what's happening and the moderators aren't confident that you can hear us over the applause and the candidates are...