them to stop. the house has a choice how they are going to move forward. keep saying not a political process. keeps saying we wants a fair trial. the time for the fair investigation was. ed: the man ghanch the senate trial will be the majority leader mitch mcconnell he told hannity basically he is working with the white house to figure all this out and democrats were not happy about that. griff: as we wait for this expected trial at some point in 2020. you will have 55 republican notice senate and 45 democrats. and lisa murkowski, a moderate republican, responding to mcconnell. here is sort of what she said. we don t know what she feels about it but in terms of the fairness, here is what she says. she says in fairness when i heard that i was disturbed. to say me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. i heard that leader mcconnell had said i happen to think that has further confused the process. now, keep in mind that senator murkowski
move forward. griff: we are in uncharted territory with the speaker of the house withholding passing it onto the senate. ivan the new york times is questioning whether or not pelosi is making the right move here. here is the headline from the new york times says is nancy pelosi caught in a trap or setting one? here s a quote from inside. it s a question between bret stephens and gail collins new york times. ed: a couple of their columnists. griff: if she tries to bottle up impeachment on the house on grounds that the senate won t call witnesses like john bolton or mic mulvaney she ll look hypothetical. if senate takes over mitch mcconnell arrange for expedited trial leading to guaranteed acquittal leading to much of the public to conclude the entire process was a waste of time, honestly i m not how she finesses it. ed: you mentioned collins liberal columnist having back and forth online with
katie: brad, there has been a lot of back and forth between the house and senate about the strategy moving forward here. should there be a long trial? should there be a short trial. lindsey graham in charge of the senate judiciary committee has said he wants it to be short. what are your thoughts on what they should be doing in terms of how long this thing should drag out once nancy pelosi passes the articles over? i happen to believe as a lawyer that the charges are defective on their face. they don t meet the constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors. i would like to see a motion to dismiss. i think the 51 senators that we have as republicans should agree with that and there should be no trial. it should be dismissed as a matter of course. if that doesn t happy. i think an abbreviated trial is in order. there isn t much evidence that was proffered by the house in order for there to be a length dr. trial. just the average american as a juror has heard the evidence alre
that speaker pelosi is the speaker of the house. she is not the speaker of the senate or the majority leader. that is mitch mcconnell s job. ed: smart analysis from katie. maybe the most important part of that is when you mentioned 2020. it s not really about the trial or impeachment. it s about heading towards next november. so you look at the democrats out there. and remember what al green, the said some time ago we don t think we can beat him at the ballot box, president trump. we have to impeach him. all these 2020 democrats moving further and further to the left. socialist programs, medicare for all. $52 trillion for elizabeth warren. then we have these sort of newcomers in steyer and bloomberg spending all this money. we are finally getting a tally of all of that tom steyer, mike bloomberg, nearly $200 million of their own money in ads. the question is neither one of them ar moving up very much n the polls. it s not really no sign it s really helping them in their campaigns, at
everything the republicans were not allowed to have in the house. dems want to run majority republican senate. hypocrites. holding back articles of impeachment and trying to dictates the terms to mitch mcconnell. katie: republicans have been articles and people who have been through impeachment before. the clinton impeachment. the house is supposed to you do all this work on witnesses and documents before they send the articles over to the senate. the senate s job is not to be calling new witnessessenned going to new documents and issuing tons of new subpoenas. that work was supposed to be done in the house. democrats continue to argue that this needs to be withheld until they get a fair trial with imacial jurors as if 4568 of the people will be sitting in on this trial aren t running against the president. they are not impartial. people saying this was rushed through. if you are going to say the president is a threat to national security. how can you sit on the articles for at least t