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Mexico, and all week long republicans have been complaining democrats simply hate this president but they did hand him a significant legislative victory. >> certainly is a significant legislative victory indeed. thanks very much. democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a member of the judiciary and foreign relations committees. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> the president objects to what he describes as new impeachment rules with senator schumer and wants to make the case to use the same process they used from 20 years ago during the bill clinton impeachment trial in the senate wi...

>> the word is it's outrageous. he's going to take an oath that he's going to be an impartial fact finder. how in the world can he do that? if this was a regular jury, it'd be excused for bias. and i think mitch mcconnell's going to have a powerful role here that we have to keep our eye on. you just talked with garrett about whether it should be a short trial or a long trial. the republicans want to bury impeachment. they want to have a trial that has no witnesses. it's just paper because they can do a couple things. one, the public will -- the ratings will be terrible because nobody will watc...

Is that in the weeds? a little bit. but matters in terms of how long it takes and what it looks like. let's start with phil maddingly on capitol hill. help us understand, phil, the intrigue of what wants what out of the senate. >> what's important is the majority leader. he controlls what happens in the united states senate. the impeachment rules make it more of a majority-led process. mitch mcconnell has made it clear one thing. he wants this as short as possible, to still be considered a legitimate trial. he wants the house democratic managers to present their case, the president's defense t...

Any point in the impeachment proceedings they need to reply yes by december 6th at 5:00 p.m. and that matters is this. the way the house impeachment rules were drafted, if the white house wants to participate and that includes asking questions of witnesses, submitting proposal for their own witnesses and giving a concluding statement, they have to tell the democrats at this point in time. the challenge and i know you're reporting this on a regular basis in your day job, does the white house think this will legitimize what they say is a sham up to this point. we don't have an answer. a huge out...

>> the gentle women will suspend. >> what is the interruption this time? since the chairman has gafed out a all of my colleagues, i'm going to read for the record many of the chairman's comments in september of this importance of hearing from the whistleblower. >> the witness was able to answer questions, as you saw. the only people limited from asking questions were republican members because we're muzzled by adam schiff. >> i mean the question we have is, is that true? >> well, they knew the rules going into this. the house approved the impeachment rules that said the ranking member and the ...