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In 1998 and 1999 everyone who needed to testify had testified under oath. all of the live witnesses, all of the people with firsthand information in the starr grand jury. there were 2,600 pages of what they said. in this case we haven't heard from any of the people who are very close to the president, so there's a need for witnesses. the second thing, he keeps talking about how they decide, you know, we'll decide somewhere in the middle whether we're going to have witnesses. the agreement in 1999 was they would do it in two phases. first they'd let the lawyers speak, and then they would decide...

Situation. >> there's no precedent for either and trump will put a lot of pressure on mcconnell and republicans to get a trial going to see -- because he wants to be vindicated, but you can't -- even in 1998 where every witness went under oath in the grand jury, the president himself, the president gave blood, you had an agreement where three witnesses went on videotape that were played on the floor, monica lewinsky, vernon jordan and sydney blumenthal for reasons i still don't understand but that's another story. you can't have a trial. this is the dilemma for -- when i think about this, i th...