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Grieving over. this thanksgiving was really hard and christmas is harder. and i'm going to go back to doing my job. if he thinks he's going to keep me from doing my job, i'm going to be right back at it when i leave here. >> you know, michigan republican congressman fred upton called for an apology tweeting, i always looked up to john dingell, my good friend and great michigan legend. there was no need to dis him in a crass political way. most unfortunate and an apology due. that message to the white house. let's listen to press secretary stephanie grisham. >> he was at a political rally. he's...

Prosecutor's investigation. with president clinton, the independent counsel's inquiry had been under way literally for years before the house judiciary committee actually dug in. mountains of evidence. mountains. mountains of testimony from firsthand fact witnesses. serious legal battles to get what was necessary. this time around, house democrats skipped all of that. just 12 weeks. 12 weeks. more than a year of hearings for nixon, multiple years of investigation for clinton, and they've impeached president trump in 12 weeks. 12 weeks. so let's talk about what the house actually produced in th...

Recently talking about the current possibility of the senate trial. >> i am not going to support witnesses being called for by the president. i'm not going to support witnesses being call for by senator schumer. we're going to vote on the same product the house used. >> obviously, a difference there. i wonder, in private conversations, have any of your gop colleagues said they'd support calling witnesses? you'd only need a handful to join with democrats in a simple majority vote to call for witness testimony. >> i haven't asked them, but i'll tell you this. the american people expect us to do ...

So she's ratcheting up the rhetoric on that. i think democrats have to follow the great poet robert frost and say the only way out is through. only way out of this impeachment process is going through it. and that means the senate trial, even if it's an imperfect one. >> there you go. context, history important in all of this. douglas brinkley, thank you. >> noting the history there. and there's a lot of it. speaker pelosi and democratic leader chuck schumer set to meet today to talk next steps. in minutes, we may get a clear idea of the republican strategy. senate majority leader mitch mcconn...

Crimes and misdemeanors according to democrats. this wasn't just a few people. scores -- scores of democrats voted to move forward with impeachment on three of those prior occasions. so let's be clear. the house's vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment that democrats came to with great reluctance. it was the predetermined end of a partisan crusade that began before president trump was even nominated, let alone sworn in. for the very first time in modern history, we've seen a political faction in congress promise from the moment -- the moment a president election ended, they would find so...