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Democrats cannot ignore the allegations against president trump, despite their concerns that with further divide the country. house dems got a full impeachment list for next week but unclear who will show up. joining us is david gregory and susan glasser, staff writer for the new yorker and jeffrey toobin. a lot to talk about. let me start with you. the line you're hearing from republicans is that this is no due process. it is unconstitutional. it is unfair. it's even fundamentally unamerican according to the white house press secretary. if they press this did nothing wrong with no due process...

View with past impeachment inquiries? >> you know, i don't think that the nixon and clinton impeachments are really great guides for our current situation. if the house had picked up an impeachment inquiry based on the mueller report, i think that the analogy would be more appropriate. but here what you have is essentially an investigation begun from scratch without any kind of independent counselor special prosecutor engaged in the original fact finding mission. and they have tarted this. and now they move into the public phase. you know, the other piece is that the house has the power to con...

So what are the rules? republicans and democrats will have more time for questioning and republicans can call their own witnesses but only with democrats' approval. >> it's a sad day because nobody comes to congress to impeach a president of the united states no one >> reporter: the vote forced house lawmakers to go on the record, only two democrats crossed party lines to vote against the resolution no republicans defected with the white house privately pleased at that show of support. >> this impeachment is not only an attempt to undo the last election it is an attempt to influence the next o...

Investigation thus far, because it's all going to come out there. are a number of republicans who want to say to this president don't argue this as a fireside chat because the facts aren't good for you either. >> yeah, i think when these transcripts are released it's going to be a worst picture for the president. all of the witnesses who have come forward have essentially corroborated the same story, that there was an effort by the president to ask the ukrainians to interfere in the 2020 election, that he withheld american military aid and a white house visit until that happened and that the w...

American military aid and a white house visit until that happened and that the white house staff, including lawyers of the white house staff sought to cover that up. so the defenders of the president only have three places to go without these process arguments available to them.soid number one is i guess perhaps they could say well, the facts weren't as described. he never said these things, and it's a misinterpretation the people who heard that. i don't think that's going to fly. they could argue the law.ac n they could say look, the president did do these things, but it's not unlawful, not i...