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Impeachable? we're hearing every type of free sometime defense thus far. take a listen. >> democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him at the ballot box. >> how soviet style this is running. this is the united states of america. don't run a sham process, a tainted process. >> trying to put a ribbon on a sham process doesn't make it any less of a sham. >> what we are seeing among democrats on the intelligence committees down in the skip right now like a cult. now they've decided they don't like the way he talks to foreign leaders. >> juanita. >> ...

Everything. so what's the strategy here? >> reporter: yeah, not many people can get inside the majority leader's head. so i'm not going to try to do so. >> you can. go ahead. go ahead. >> i think in watching the majority leader over a number of years and recognizing what's going on here, there are three key things that i think you need to keep in mind, first and foremost as you noted when it comes to the house process, he's not hesitating to rip nancy pelosi and what democrats are doing. to some degree, she concerned about the process and also it throws a little red meat out there. the second ...

This vote -- it's going to pass with some -- we don't know exactly how much, but certainly nancy pelosi is going to win this vote. and the question of, will that prompt more republicans to start talking about the merits of the case against the president as opposed to the process. >> no, you've already heard it. now they'll impugn vindman's character. you heard what he led with which is, where's the whistle-blower. i don't think i've heard from the whistle-blower yet. they're casting about because as we heard, about the fact pattern is a tough one. >> they might need to talk to the president ab...

President and who sees mounting evidence of truly a betrayal of our democracy. and so they're approaching two tracks. one is to focus on process as we saw with the political stunt from last week storming the scif and then going in and eating pizza there. and now they are trying to assassinate the character of a purple heart winner. you know, and we've seen this playbook before from this administration. obstruct, stonewall, and if that doesn't work, when people put their country over their own self-interest, then you go after them and you try and attack them as immigrants. unfortunately, this i...

Is impeached in the house. so one of your colleagues, lindsey graham, has put forward a motion sort of condemning the house process. you haven't signed on to that, but what is your view of the house process? >> the house process, the constitution is clear. it gives the house the responsibility of the impeachment process. and i have looked back and through history, i had my staff look back, john, and we have seen through the nixon impeachment process and through the clinton impeachment process that basically there's a time period when they gather the information through the inquiries and then b...