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Capitol, it was on cable news on sean hannity's show. senator mitch mcconnell went out and said there is no chance this president is going to be impeached. i tell you in my conversations and i had several with white house sources overnight who said, yeah, the public tone is we're deferring to mcconnell. mcconnell says we're deferring to the white house. everybody publicly is playing very nice in this process. you heard the congressman say senator mcconnell is supposed to be a juror so how can he be saying things like this? >> that's a really interesting question. the senators will take a separ...

Voted for these articles of impeachment, the articles were going to likely pass. the question then became the opportunity for both parties to make their case to the american public, and that's the relevance of the cameras as well. obviously it was pretty clear from what we have been hearing during the impeachment debates that the republicans were making absolute and justified, meaning that is their right as a party, to try to make sure that they can make their case. i think the problem here is it wasn't really a discussion of the evidence. it was much more, unfortunately, both a discussion abo...

I hope that is still the case. i don't know anything more about those discussions. but let's see going forward. >> before i let you go, we're now approaching the end of the house process. you have a series of recent polls that show public opinion really hasn't moved that much as this has all unfolded. why do you think that is and is it a concern politically for your party? >> at this point i think that we have to put the constitution over politics and our country over party. i think we just have to do the right thing in the house and then let the senate do what it believes to be correct and in...

The president at the ballot box, so that is why they're taking these actions. but you heard adam schiff today say that they feel as though they need to act quickly to make sure that the president doesn't cheat in another election. so the election is a key theme here. also in this statement from the prerve press secretary, stephanie grisham, she says, the president will address these charges in the senate and expects to be full yip exonerated because he did nothing wrong. i'm told at this point that the case has to be made through the president's lawyers. it's something that the president has b...

In any of this. do republican lawmakers think that is a good strategy? >> yeah. i think the republicans generally think the senate is going to be a better forum in which trump can get a chance to make his defense in a more sympathetic atmosphere. the senate is led by the gop. i think the gop members of the house have been basically ready to write it off since the get-go. they've been arguing it is illegitimate, biased, procedurally questionable. i don't think there is any sore feelings on the republicans' side that the president has decided to skip out on this. republicans are playing along to...