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Editorial last week in "christianity today" the magazine says the president's conduct merits impeachment and removal. chris. chris: rich edson from mar-a-lago, thank you. joining us here from washington, chief of staff to vice president mike pence, marc short. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> thanks having me. chris: speaker pelosi will not send over the articles of impeachment until she knows what the ground rules are for a senate trial and wants democrats to call witnesses. here she is. >> the next thing will be when we see the process set forth in the senate. then we'll know the number of m...

Roberts who will oversee the trial. mitch mcconnell is partisan republican. no one is expecting him to be partial. problem as ben said, nancy pelosi initiated this process. to please her progress i was and she rushed it through to please those adam housley members want to talk about something else. now she is in a bind here. chris: is she in a bind? >> not at all. i was shocked to say nancy pelosi is not in charge of democrats. she had quite a streak here. she held her caucus together. oh, of these 31 who have, who come from districts where president trump won the election, she is going to see...

Position is untenable that they will move it along and chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell reach a deal how it proceeds in the senate. chris: she will eventually give? >> she will yield. there is no way she can hold this position. chris: the president wants his day in court. how frustrated is he right now by what pelosi is doing? and he has been sort of back and forth in this. does he want a full trial which he can call witnesses, republicans can call witnesses to defend him? he is frustrated what he found to be completely unreasonable impeachment. so sure he is frustrated by that. he is also an...

We must not delay. >> could we find a more perfect description of the present danger emminuteing from 1600 pennsylvania avenue? chris: if president trump is such a threat, this case is so urgent, why not send impeachment to the senate right away? >> first of all, did you think the united states senate would start the trial before january 6th. you have no idea what would happen in the next few weeks as leaders are trying to negotiate what would happen. as i remind you, republican impeachment with president bill clinton the managers were not appointed until january 6th. i hope leaders will conti...

>> my problem with it is they're claiming this testimony is so essential to this process, if it is that essential, why didn't they let it play out? >> because the president wouldn't allow it. he not only withheld witnesses he withheld evidence. chris: a good question. why didn't they do it. you folks can ruin your christmas. talk about it over christmas dinner. we have to take a break here. when we come back, as timing and scope of a senate trial remain in him boy, we'll discuss how it is playing in the key battleground states as we head into 2020. impeachment and the election. that's next. xe...