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Senate majority leader has said a couple of things that are of grave concern to democrats. one, he said that he's working in total coordination with the white house, which democrats see as undermining the integrity of the process. but he's also signalled that he wants to see a senate trial that is as quick and imminently forgettable as possible. so it's the process that he's more or less envisioned would have house managers or prosecutors laying out the case, you would have a rebuttal from the white house. and then at that point the senators would make some determination that they've heard eno...

Open mind. look at the evidence, judge the facts and judge the law. when they make up their mind without the facts, without a presentation of both sides, then they are, i think, violating their oath of office and the oath for the impeachment. >> congressman ka brel la, quickly to you. >> that reminds us of two things, why people don't trust politicians and we're at a record low in terms of trust and confidence. and number two, all of this is ultimately a political process. this is not a court of law. this will be decided in the court of public opinion, which means that the final verdict will c...

Down more than just the impeachment process in 2019. they're tearing down, shredding at the congress by delegitimizing this process. democrats at least are upholding the process and their responsibilities and willing to accept the political consequences, for some of them in very competitive districts. >> and worth noting that a lot of those editorial boards that we just showed are from urban centers more likely to lead democratic. congressman israel, last thoughts to you. >> i think there's an important distinction between alyssa sl slotkin. she all seven had national security backgrounds. she...

Perhaps house democrats could build a greater consensus in the country for their position if we heard from some of these other witnesses. but the position of house democrats is that they don't have time to go to court. they don't want to dedicate the time to doing that. so there are consequences to trying to rush through this process and we know speaker pelosi was sensitive about proceeding in this sense a few months ago. she really didn't want to do impeachment until she had no other choice. now he's trying to make it as expeditious as possible because she doesn't want her swing district memb...

The remarks that he made over the weekend about how he has clearly made up his mind at this point. so there's a little bit of a trip down memory lane you can take not wujust with senator graham. i want to play for you what he said back during 1988 during the clinton impeachment and what he's saying now and i want to pause and show you something else. here's senator graham. >> members of the senate have said i understand everything there is about this case and i won't vote to impeach the president. please allow the facts to do the talking. i have clearly made up my mind. i'm not trying to hide ...