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>> yeah, that's a shrinking class, brian. i don't think i'll be invited back for rob portman fan girl night, unfortunately. i don't think he's been very happy with my coverage of him as of late. but, look, here's the thing. he's retiring. this is the frustrating part. you'd think there'd be an easy way to get to ten folks here. that's why my colleague is pushing for this being a filibuster item. because seven people vote for impeachment then you've got four retiring republicans in this custodial class as you call it, roy blunt, richard burr, richard portman out of shelby, alabama. that's 11 ri...

Caucuses or longer. that might be a strategy, republican senator ron johnson tells the post, with a coy smile but john cordon adding pete buttigieg and joe biden might like that. the one that would decide mitch mcconnell, he's saying he would hold a full trial and not giving away too much more. >> the rules of impeachment are very clear. we'll have to have a trial. >> how are you monitoring the house hearings? are you watching them? >> i'm not watching them. we'll get it soon enough. >> democratic senator kirsten gillibrand a former 2020 presidential candidate joining me now sits on the armed ...

Receive pardons from the president. but as i continue to go through it, i can tell you this. the white house has been very forceful in its idea about maintaining the options to review a lot of these cases. you and i have talked at great length in particular about edward snowden. i tried to josh ernest. i asked do you think the president has decided there's no way will snowden get a pardon? we found out today that that looks to be the case. >> neil: with the latest pardons and commutations, over 2,000 now that the president has let out of prison or plans to let out of prison early. of course th...

Soften up the unelectable candidates. they don't want steve king and -- very different candidates, keep in mind, justin match is further appeal of domo. steve king is a voice against immigration reform. very different, but both cases, they might have people who are more tested. i think they prefer to see back, to sit back and watch the people brought down elsewhere. john cordon -- sorry. now it's jerry moran doesn't like to be in a position of fighting with the entire conservative infrastructure. red state dotcom with talk radio. they want the money to come from somewhere else and destroy thes...

>> i'll be interested -- we just got a pilot project for the mental health act that senator stabenow from michigan and i introduced a year ago. i'm very engaged in us dealing with military happen, like all other -- mental health, like all other issues, andry below interested to hear if there was any short yack in availability. there are 150% more behavioral health specialists in the military than just five years ago, dealing with more -- almost twice as many cases, but was there some reason that we could have known more than we knew about this individual's problems and dealt with them more eff...