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President's own party are not putting their names on this resolution. i expect some of them eventually will, but it's an embarrassment. this was done to make the president feel good about himself and will have an opposite impact. trump will have to look at this and say, okay, if a trial comes to the senate, i know at least eight members are not willing to buy into my process arguments that i've been using to demean the entire impeachment proceeding. >> we're going to have to leave it there. sam stein, thank you very much for joining us torrent. >> sure thing. >> gene robinson, please stay with...

Way. and he's not prepared to do that. and so he's kind of in the middle. >> and sam, so far what lindsey graham has accomplished is to identify for us eight republican senators who are leaning against the republican talking points certainly on the impeachment investigation of donald trump. >> i mean, that's remarkable to me because this resolution is ceremonial at best. it'll have no bearing on the house impeachment process. it's merely a way to get through a news cycle without the president berating you. and yet eight members of the president's own party are not putting their names on this w...

Sudden the rug is pulled out from under them. but worried about what the next evidence is going to be making their current defenses look even worse. >> aaron, as you write, the six defenses of trump and ukraine were falling apart were just plain bad. this has been a repeated effort, one after another, and almost all of them have been erased to this point. >> there is no quid pro quo, there is lots of process arguments here that don't exactly make sense. i think what we are seeing from lindsey graham here especially, the idea that there is no due process here, the idea that republicans, you kno...

Included in the whistle-blower's letter was corroborated by a number of witnesses. so republicans honestly have nowhere to run on this. >> we have heard the president repeatedly complain about adam schiff, the way he characterized the president's call with the ukrainian president. we have the call with the ukrainian president. it doesn't matter what adam schiff said or didn't say. we have the primary documents and we are hearing from the officials in the room. >> the whistle-blower complaint was a launching point. it didn't present itself as being necessarily a first-hand account having primar...

Because soon they're going to have to put this in bite size, understandable narrative fashion. >> i think that they do understand that. what you've seen from speakers pelosi is a message for her caucus to focus on what happened here, what was the shake down, what was he doing in ukraine, and using all these statements to build out that narrative. to not take the bait into the process arguments, which is really where they got bogged down during the mueller investigation going to these issues of obstruction, arguing with the administration on some of these issues that were very procedural. you s...