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Have a lengthy trial, because he wants the facts out there. he has never to this moment been able to present his side of the story. on the other hand, i have heard mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham and other say it shorter trial would serve the interests of the country better. maybe they are right. this is a very divisive process. spilling can i ask you one last question before chuck schumer gets underway? if van drew, the democratic congressman from new jersey does switch parties, will the republican party and the house majority, the nrcc, will they rally behind him and back him in the elect...

As a witness if republicans are going to have to put up some witnesses may be adam schiff will be called. listen to what he said about what success looks like to him. >> no, it is not a failure, at least it is not a failure in the sense of a constitutional duty in the house. >> dana: saying that acquittal in the senate, if the senators don't impeach the president, then that is still okay prayed he thinks it is a big success, what do you think? >> i think the only thing you can read from the schumer press conference was an indictment on house democrats in a way that they operated in the witness...

Dissent in that part of the report? >> well, the dissent was based on what we presented in the 14 hour marathon hearing that there are really two concerns ultimately that we have, there was a fraudulent process that brought us to this point as congressman ratcliffe was just noting and chairman who engineered the whole thing. they had secret meetings in the basement, they cherry picked the witnesses and the testimony that they wanted, and even to this day, dana, even though i am a member of the house judiciary committee and the subcommittee, we have jurisdiction over it, and i still am not able...

Completely cut out of the house process. it was recorded none of the usual courtesies of rights that have been given to presidents accused of such things in the past. the republicans were not allowed to call their own witnesses, so i think that mcconnell's interest is in making sure that the white house feels that what does happen in the senate does accord with past practice and that they are given their say. >> dana: mcconnell and apparently he has said that he is ready to sit down and talk? looks like schumer is ready to as well. we might be getting more information soon. kim strassel, thank...

Republicans in the house, that their primary focus is to protect the president rather than having a partial process here. i don't think leader mcconnell did himself any favors in fighting that narrative when he came on the error on this network the other day and said, we are going to be lockstep and coordinate this every step of the way with the white house. so i think that much is the republicans tried to make the process one of the questions during the house phase of this, looks like democrats are going to try to make the process part of it, part of the conversation as we move to a senate tr...