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To the table, work out a process through which we can have a fair and impartial trial. that's what i think. and since the constitution is silent on how and when to transmit, then i think the speaker is within her rights and her duties to fill that void with good common sense. i don't think it's good common sense to walk -- >> sorry. i don't necessarily want to interrupt you. i don't know if you heard the comments the president made at that rally in michigan last night about the late congressman john dingell. i don't want to play them again. did you hear them? >> yes, i did. i thought it was --...

He's number three in the house so it's not nothing. >> that's my point. there have been conversations among leadership about this, and it's clearly not a fly-by. this is not a pure trial balloon. this is something they're considering actively. >> the difficulty for democrats is if they're trying to build any more momentum for impeachment, i just don't know that the public is movable at this point. yes, they would certainly like to have witnesses. perhaps expand the nature of the investigation and the fact finding in a senate trial and they could look at what the republicans have done attacking...

Senate. >> let's take the republican complaints out of it, congressman. as you know, you have fellow house members in competitive districts who voted for impeachment at some political risk. they're not very happy about the idea of this trial dragging out. what is your message to them? >> look, our colleagues came together, democrats and republicans, and listened to the facts that were presented. what's abundantly clear is that the president violated his oath of office, there was an abuse of power and an obstruction of congress. it's rye our republican colleagues refused to talk about the facts...

That is where you put the managers. i was not prepared to put the managers in that bim yet because we don't know the arena that we are in. frankly, i don't care what the republicans say. any other questions? not on this subject. i've said this is it. >> last night you suggested seeing a fair process in the senate. >> we'd like to see a fair process. we'll see what they have and be ready for whatever they have. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> we would hope there would be a fair process, just as we hope they would honor the constitution. by the way, i heard some of what mitch mcconnell said today,...

Clear. get to work, make sure we present this to the american people and set those parameters. >> we heard it from the president in a tweet, snand senator lindsey graham, what is driving this crazy idea, meaning holding upbringing over the articles. democrats have final lie realized they have a very weak case which never should have been brought forward to begin with? do you worry this delay plays into the republican mantra of this being a partisan exercise by the democrats? >> look, leader mcconnell's remarks this morning on the senate floor don't surprise me. remember, last week he took to f...