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To make on jim's question. first of all, i think jim is exactly right. the process for congressional accountability, holding executive accountable is broken. and every single candidate for president right now ought to be asked the question, what are you going to do about accountability reform. if you were elected, where the executive can be held accountable through a subpoena with an expedited process of 30 or 45 days. your reporters should be asking every single presidential candidate, democrat and republican, where they stand on the accountability reform because that process is broken just b...

Make their own determination about how they approach this process. this is going to be a trial and we are serving as jurors. so we've got some work to do prior to that. but then as we're sitting there, and i think maybe a lot of americans may not realize how different this will be than the house process. we will be silent. >> you can't talk. you have to write your questions for witnesses. >> correct. that's correct. >> so it will be a different process. what folks will see on the senate floor for the most part is not hearing from the chief justice or the senators. it will be the house managers...

United states senate has to discharge its duty to fairly evaluate this information. i think it was a step in the right direction when our democratic leader senator schumer proposed not just a process but asking for four witnesses who have direct knowledge of the withholding of the aid. a very -- a limited but important, relevant purpose. so we're going to debate that, but i think the key in the end is this is not going to be a process driven by polls. every senator has to make their own determination based upon the evidence. >> i hear you on that. picking up on the request from senator schumer...

Cetera, it seems a reasonable person at home can take from this that obstruction works, right? if you say no aggressively and often enough, you can hamper an investigation. is that a reasonable takeaway? >> but you said a key word. reasonable. there is no reason in this process right now. this is a partisan process and by that i mean the republicans have dug in, in a way that i never thought i'd see in my lifetime as a well. they refuse to acknowledge facts. it's fair to debate whether the president should be impeached or censured. they won't even do that. they're saying he did nothing wrong. ...

I wonder as we look forward here because you and many of your colleagues have talked about impeachment being such a solemn process. sort of an emergency tool you use only in the most unique circumstances here. i just wonder, what do you think the lesson here for future democratic or republican presidents is in response to impeachment as they saw president trump refuse to cooperate, refuse house subpoenas? do you think that's a dangerous precedent going forward? >> well, i think both ways are a dangerous precedent. it's dangerous to reach to impeachment without doing a full-blown watergate proc...