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Would there be witnesses? there is one thing everybody in the united states senate agrees on, democrat or republican. and that was everybody was going to get the holidays. no matter when the impeachment articles came over, they were going to get agreement to break until sometime the first week of january. i will say this. when you talk to democrats, they have been so keyed on the idea that it only takes four republican senators to come there way to essentially guarantee the trial procedures they want. that would include administration witnesses, people like mick mulvaney. >> it's a simple majo...

Out, sometimes they wouldn't work it out. coming into the 20th century, we've become more reliant on court to intervene. for most of american history, courts stay away from impeachment. in fact, the court ruled 9-0 in a case involving walter nixon who challenged the trial procedures, that it would not interfere with or judge the senate -- >> so fascinating. >> left to the senate. that has to be true for the house as well, so this is really a question about the house's authority, not the court's authority, and if house can stand up in a sense on its own and say, we've got the sole power -- the ...

Witness for the prosecution. adam houseley live at california's superior court in los angeles with more for us. adam? >> reporter: yeah, jon. that cross-examination of dr. stephen shafer continues rice now. we can show you, he is the witness who was on the stand for about a week. now, there were three dark days because of trial procedures and other things that happened, so he was really on the stand for three full days if you were to count the time and a little bit more than that. he's now on again during cross-examination. he tied the whole prosecution case together. he said dr. conrad murray...