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Prosecutor robert costello. he made headlines earlier this year after reports that he attempted to dangle a pardon to the president's former attorney michael cohen. meantime, republicans seem to be searching for the best line of attack to defend the president. >> republicans are really struggling to defend the president -- he okay, great. >> we're not struggling on anything. >> okay. >> republicans are not struggling on anything. >> i trust president zelensky and president trump and i trust the fact that the ukrainians didn't know that aid had been held and ukrainians did nothing to get it rel...

Michael, i think what a lot of republicans think might be their best argument, that even if it was a quid pro quo, so to speak, that doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. it has never been said clearly enough by any of these witnesses, they can't prove that that's exactly what it was? >> yeah. i think people are struggling. i mean at first they decided to deflect and talk about the bidens. then they decided that quid pro quo was the way to go. i don't think that's working either. so now i believe that they are going to eventually move to the lane of saying hey, listen, the president may ha...

Recognizes they have corruption problems and we expected the president to step up and point to a commitment to ending corruption and graft in his administration or across the whole of the ukraine. that doesn't rise to the level that they're trying to make it. an impeachable offense. nor did the original transcript or the whistleblower complaint. this is a series of additional shiny objects to try to justify what i think is an insufficient basis for moving forward with impeachment. >> neil: not everyone is on the same page with this, senator, the dribs and drabs of testimony we've gotten from o...

Think about yourself when you are driving. we don't want to become analyzing negligent conduct that doesn't rise to that bar of substantial disregard for a known risk like driving on a sidewalk where there is people. >> a couple tweets from people who side with the family on this was one of them said i don't think it should be considered murder but second-degree homicide would be appropriate. the prosecutor was already being extremely lenient. really bad call by the judge if you ask me. the next one apparently you can kill multiple people now and get probation. is the delaware legal system dif...

Diplomat, he's a different politician, he shouldn't have done it, but this doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. you don't remove a president for this. in its own way goes to van's point they've lost their honor and integrity. what we're talking about here is using military aid that this ally desperately needed against the russians and holding it up to get political dirt, you know, and affect the election here in this country. but these things get normalized and as time goes on, it's less shocking, it shouldn't be, but it is, and i think republicans will retreat but again not to the so wha...