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>> martha: first your reaction when sandy hoyer said, okay, we are done paired businesses close there are no more votes. >> i cannot say i had a negative reaction to that. i'm looking forward -- >> martha: everybody likes to go home. but it means that you will not have the movement of what was decided in the house move over to the senate and get that moving on a fast course. >> that is very true, and the reason that will not, the reason is because it is an official weak case. and nancy pelosi realize that today by demanding whatever she means by a fair trial. let's not forget, what do we give ...

Senate was created and which outcome would betray it. the senate's duty is clear. the senate's duty is clear. when the time comes, we must fulfill it. >> you saw the senate majority leader delivering about a half-hour rebuttal in effect to the house impeachment case, calling it the thinnest case for impeachment in the country's history and saying, poppy, that this, if the senate were so accept this, invite, in his words, impeachment of every future president. >> yeah, that's right. you know, what struck me was near the end, jim, when he said historians will regard this as the great irony of ou...

In fact, president trump is spending his first day amp being impeached phoning allies asking what is going on? not sure what it means for him. he wants a vigorous defense in the senate. he believes a friendly area and spending the day mostly behind closed doors. meeting with congressman -- the congressman that switched parties. and it's unclear what the president's dwer 's defense tea look like during a trial. its expected white house counsel will taked lead. some aides are in the president's ear telling him cipollone is better suited arguing a legal case in a courthouse rather than a politica...

Her guns. she wants to see what happens. tell us what's going on behind the scenes and what the mood is on the hill. >> i'm not sure we got much clarity from the speaker. here is what she did say. she said she wants to find out what the senate trial process will be before she can determine how many managers she'll appoint. those are the house prosecutors of the impeachment case essentially, and who they will be. practically speaking, that means we're probably not going to find out those next steps until the new year. the house is set to have one more vote today and they're probably going home ...

So, garrett, like i said, the definition of a trial balloon is what democrats have done. nancy pelosi is not saying she's doing this for any other reason other than waiting. you know, she hasn't talked about any larger motive that other lawmakers have speculated on. how's the trial balloon playing? i guess is probably the first question to ask. at least among house democrats and senate democrats. >> so far, so good, chuck. although, there's been some confusion among democrats over what exactly the plan is here. everything i've heard thus far has been supportive. the reality is the house just l...