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Defend marie yovanovitch and reviewing to cooperate with all these other people. so for mike pompeo, it's been very clear that he's been very, very loyal to trump. and i think what he is doing is he is eyeing a senate seat in kansas. he may say that's not what he wants to do. that's what politicians always say. they deny that they're going to run or make some different maneuver. but he's been very, very loyal to trump because he knows that that is how you win in republican areas. so in kansas, which is a fairley republican state, if he remains loyal to trump, tries to stay out of this whole im...

Background in it, then the whole system is falling apart. >> there's no sense if you're a diplomat in this administration that you will have the confidence and the backing of the people who put you in your positions. just take bill taylor as an example. he testified in this impeachment probe and was put in his position by secretary of state mike pompeo. he's leaving the job in january. and trying to get out of there as quickly as possible. so pompeo doesn't have to be photographed with him. this is the kind of thing that, you know, if you were a diplomat why would you sign up to do this kind o...

Mcconnell had said. i happen to think that that has further confused the process. >> reporter: senator lisa murkowski of alaska, a moderate who bucked her party on health care and supreme court justice kavanaugh, responded sharply to this. >> everything i'm doing on this i'm coordinated with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. >> reporter: murkowski making clear she also has concerns with how house democrats ran their impeachment probe. >> speaker pell oosi was very clear, very direct that her goal was to ...

Or you're just sick of the whole thing. almost nothing in the video clips you played this morning are factually accurate. it is one thing to understand the facts of this impeachment probe and to say, i don't think the president should be impeached for this or let the election bear it out. there's another thing to contest the facts, and what he said there in terms of dirty cops and spying and it's watergate, it's just not true. it is important to operate in a set of facts when you're making an assessment about how you feel about this, whether you're a member of the senate or whether you're a me...

Need, and just to history nerd you back a little bit, sorry. >> let's go. >> just because the johnson impeachment probe is the one where there was no investigation. that's relevant to put out there. it was like a three day turn around to when they decided to impeach and when they started to go to the trial. they didn't have a special counsel. that's what the gop's argument is for why they don't need the extra witnesses because they have stuff that's already on the table in documented form. >> i appreciate that pushback. >> wow. >> that's some high quality impressive -- but you didn't have a se...