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The partisanship, maybe taking a few votes that actually ends up siding with democrats on certain witnesses here or there. but ultimately that frustration, those votes do not say anything about whether they're actually going to say overall this wasn't a fair process or i'm going to vote to convict the president. that's a far cry from where they are right now. and lisa murkowski is used to being the first voice out. she was with kavanaugh. and so the question really is does she bring anybody along with her, does mitt romney follow suit or susan collins, and it's not clear. because she's not say...

The senators in both parties went to the old senate chamber and got the cameras and me and others out of there, let's figure this out. what is your advice to mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer to get this out of the way. >> it's harder because they're more polarizing. and more fussing during the four or five hours, we had ted kennedy as liberal as you can get and a republican, and we have a vote 100-0, maybe that can't happen, but for the sake of the republic they ought to have the frame work. the trial went off a hitch and it was along party line votes, but nobody could argue that wasn't a fai...

By mobilizing the base, galv galvanizing, fund-raising, and so on. so i think donald trump is basically going to double down on the strategy that he's already taken up until this point. >> is this, in the end, though, an exercise in futility because once it does get to the senate, it's not going to get through, is it, no matter what? >> well, reasonable minds can disagree on this. my own opinion is that at the end of the day, it will be largely an academic exercise so to speak, simply because i think that the standard prediction going into this impeachment inquiry has really held. and that is ...

Opportunity to look at the findings of weeks of work from house democrats in a report that will be distributed behind closed doors to members. sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. >> and thomas giff joins us now. he's a lecturer in political science at the university college in london. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, rosemary. >> so we learned late sunday that president trump and his lawyers will not participate in wednesday's impeachment hearings. they say those hearings are unfair. do they have a point, or is this all about trying to avoid legitimizing the process? >> wel...

And continue into the 2020 election. >> which means for the democrats, this is going to look like a political exercise and a very costly one at that. so what could be the political consequences of that when it comes to the vote in 2020? >> well, this is something that nancy pelosi has really tried to avoid since the very beginning, and i think was one reason why she was so reluctant to engage in this process, simply because the american public is relatively split in terms of public opinion over this impeachment. democrats basically are going to make the case that, you know, despite what the am...