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Money in this plan than in the plan shelley moore cap at that was discussing with president biden. there is promise here. there is big disagreement how to pay for it. the white house sees the potential to raise the gas tax. joe biden says raise the corporate tax. each side rules out the other or's proposal. tougher irs enforcement is one of the features. just beefing up the irs. if the bipartisan talks fail, then do you have this potential for a big package to go later on. all of this is a step along the path. you have to take this step because the only way to get democrats united around the f...

Have the system is we're not sure exactly what the rules are going to be. there are rules that existed in previous impeachment trials, but as, i think, you have pointed out, they can change in the middle of the process. >> yeah. >> so we're in this, you know, odd situation where we're not sure what the rules are going to be. >> if you will permit me to be somewhat lofty, what should americans take from this system that is -- that is a possibility in our constitution rarely exercised and we lived during times that are both hyperbolic and cynical. everything is the biggest deal ever, but also no...

There are a set of laws and rules that we all know that don't get changed in the middle of trial. we know what the evidence rules are. we know what due process is. the courts have analyzed it and it's set there. the other thing of course is the jury is very different. in a trial we have voir dire. we have a system to make sure that there are fair and impartial jurors who judge the facts and the law solely on what's presented to them in the court. and that's not how our impeachment process works. >> well, karen -- >> on voir dire that allows you to question the jurors and get rid of ones that a...

Setting the rules for the trial. so, you know, it is uncharted water. we had the clinton and andrew johnson a long time ago. but the rules are kind of -- it's not surprising that the rules are kind of made up as we go along. >> yeah. and as you say, that is something the founders did on purpose. they left quite a bit of leeway in what they did not require in the trial. they did require the house sends it over. you have to start. so great to have you. >> very nice to talk to you. >> appreciate it. coming up, we talk to tom friedman about the wider case for trump's impeachment.

We declared our independence from the old rules. and, yet, isn't there an ethical difference between some notion of rebellion and renewal and what he stands accused of, which is not being stand, not being ethical but needing to cheat, needing to extort allegedly foreign power to remain in power. >> that's what the federalist papers have been quoted a lot last week in the debate, so to speak, over his impeachment. but if you look at the federalist papers and look at the history of how the impeachment clause was written, it was exactly about preventing this kind of complicity with foreign powers...