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Democrats made a mistake in forging ahead with impeachment without key testimony from bolton and mulvaney. democrats are pushing for those witnesses at the senate trial, but they need four republicans to agree to it. and it remains unclear whether house speaker nancy pelosi will formally send the impeachment articles to the senate. president trump is spending this holiday week airing his grievances about the process complaining that democrats have treated him unfairly. the president s re-election campaign even launching a campaign with talking points for his supporters this holiday season. we begin with kristen holmes live in palm beach, florida. reporter: good morning. president trump is not a man who takes any sort of dissent well. particularly when it comes from a member of his own party. you ll remember two months ago when mitt romney criticized the president and then president trump spent days on twitter ....
Slamming romney and calling him names. and this is a critical point here. president trump has been spending days touting party unity within republicans. he even talked about the impeachment house vote members at rallies. so any sort of crack in that gop wall is likely to not go over well. when it comes to president trump s impeachment trial, one senator giving the first seen that all republicans may not be ready to fall in line. senator lisa murkowski who could be a potential swing vote expressing her discomfort with mitch mcconnell s decision. there will be no difference between the president s position and our position as to how to handle this. in fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. i happen to think that that has further confused the process. reporter: murkowski s comments coming as mcconnell ....
Key republican senator lisa murkowski said she was, quote, disturbed, to hear mitch mcconnell say he was working in, quote, total coordination with the white house for the senate trial. so what does her disturbance mean? joining us now, our political analyst sun min kim and michael sheir for the new york times. great to have both of you here with us. sun min, what does it mean? what do you take away from lisa murkowski saying that out loud in an $view? it underscores how mitch mcconnell has handled part of president trump s impeachment process. and we heard a little bit of criticism when the focus shifted to the senate. ....
Expects unity in his party to control rules in the upcoming trial. mcconnell is open to going straight to the senate floor without support from democratic leadership. as minority leader chuck schumer pushes for more witnesses and documents. how we will deal with witnesses i think remains to be seen. reporter: the moderate lawmaker was also critical of house democrats for not going to the courts to compel testimony from key administration officials like john bolton and mick mulvaney. i think they tripped over themselves to get to shot cuts to get this to the senate before the end of the year. and now they re realizing that maybe they didn t get everything that they needed. so they put it in the senate s lap. reporter: democrats hopeful more republican senators are willing to enter trump s trial impartially. i hope we re all going to find a way as we go into this impeachment trial, we re going to look at the facts and all protect the democracy that we love. reporter: house sp ....
Pelosi still has not sent over the articles of impeachment to the senate as she wants to know how the gop-led senate will conduct the trial. she is doing the right thing and she has proven herself to be an incredible leader. reporter: meanwhile, president trump confident mcconnell will produce another no vote on impeachment and acquit him. we re in a very good decision. ultimately that decision is going to be made by mitch mcconnell and he has the right to do whatever he wants. he s the head of the senate. reporter: trump lashing out at the process in tweets late last night. once again complaining about pelosi s oversight on what he calls a, quote, scam impeachment. she hates the republican party. she hates all of the people who voted for me. she s going a tremendous disservice to the country. she s not going a great job. reporter: and any sort of back tracking or criticism is a problem for mcconnell for several reasons. you talked about that house vote excuse me. that se ....