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In the senate -- and what my responsibility is to look at that information and make a determination about whether i think -- >> bret: yeah. because, you know, democrats are -- in the house are saying it's an open and shut case. you need more and that it's not complete. so the house as a prosecutor has not -- >> well, no, i'm saying i need to see the information. the way that the process works, the house decides whether they are going to develop articles of impeachment and whether the situation is serious enough. and then they send that information to us in the senate. and we make a determinati...

Shermichael, is that all the senators become jurors and in that interview on sean hannity, he also did intimate that he had hoped all of the other senators, republicans in the senate, would vote with him. or be in lockstep with the president but they're jurors. >> right. i mean, i don't know if you can guarantee that. i actually think you may see at least three to four republican senators vote unfavorably for the president. i think if you talk to many gop strategists, they would likely agree with those numbers. with that said, i think it would be a disaster to call witnesses. because remember,...

About this from the perspective of i guess a media reality show. and that's not how this process works. and i don't think mitch mcconnell wants to delay the process by going that route because you potentially hurt some of your vulnerable republican senators who are up for election next year. >> how do you see the tone of the senate trial compared to what we saw this past week, all bets are off, right? we were just watching words never said, never heard potentially in a hearing that was televised nationally. >> well, i think we're already seeing the procedurally the tone is going to be a lot di...

December. could the courts compel witnesses like a bolton, mull investigatie, et cetera, could they show up in a senate trial? or has that ship sailed? >> no, it definitely could affect things, even at the house level. imagine -- the mcgahn is the significant one. if there were a decision, we probably wouldn't see him at the house level, but it could support an article of impeachment, and then we definitely have a stronger chance of seeing him at the senate level, if the senate republicans agree, because they control the subpoenas there. >> sabrina, talk about how much power mitch mcconnell ha...

Exerting this money that had already been appropriated from lawmakers on capitol hill. republicans and democrats had agreed that this money was necessary for security assistance. this was a bipartisan issue. but he essentially was sidelined from a political person at omb, and he said that, you know, he didn't ask a lot of questions, but he did ask, you know, if you want to be involved in this, there are other ways to do it. if you want to understand how this process works. but essentially, he was sidelined. he said he didn't have direct information about what was going on behind the scenes. bu...