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All of the depositions and i'm glad that this hearing process has gone from beneath the capital to now in front of the american people so they can hear the evidence and they can come up with the right decision on whether or not this president should be impeached. >> dana: one thing that is different as the technology has changed and now everybody including the commander in chief has the ability to speak directly to the american people and his voters. while the republicans can say the process is not fair, the president has new tools at his disposal to try to keep his party one thing that doesn'...

Buy-in. they don't and yet they feel like they have no choice but to do this. what do they do next? >> i think the speaker foresaw this because she was looking at the mueller report, the denseness of it, all the things that we know. ukraine changed all of that for democrats because here you had basically an open court, the president of the united states by his own words, both on camera and in a sort of transcript, and that really didn't leave democrats a choice. now, given that, i think it's been important for speaker pelosi to take control of the process and to say, here's -- we're going to h...

You're looking at november with a thanksgiving break, another break for lawmakers and you just start running out of days to get this done. what we know is there's another full week of closed door depositions still to come. there are depositions scheduled through next thursday. after that, we know that democrats want to try to move this into an open hearing process sooner rather than later. they would like to do open hearings in both the committees that are doing the investigating part of this intel, foreign relations and oversight, an then eventually you're going to have to do hearings in a ju...

This comes down to a situation where you remember the oath you took to protect and defend the constitution. if it turns out that the president was soliciting help from foreign nations to put a political hit on his democratic opponent in this presidential election, i don't think we have a choice. if you took that oath and you meant it, i think you have to protect and defend the constitution. >> neil: just to understand, the hearing process. you not say he is guilty or that they are going to charge him, right? >> no. it's an inquiry right now. we have a lot of questions. there are a lot of peopl...

I think it's an urgency wanting to get this done so that the president doesn't allow his allies in the court system to stall this past any meaningful analysis. but, look, this has been a concern from the very beginning in terms of if the house ultimately votes to impeach the president, but the senate fails to convict, then those feel it's all a failure and waste of time. what would you say to that? >> i think the white house hearings are instructive. the fact of the matter is early in the hearing process most americans did not favor impeachment. much was learned, including the butterfield re...