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House for that. is that what part of what slowed you down or made you as careful as you've been in reaching the decision. >> i think it played a role. i wouldn't say it played a major role. but the last time it really just brought the country to a really difficult position. but, you know, lawrence what choice do we really have? we have an obligation. and we have to fulfill the obligation. i think to do anything less would be really not doing our duties. we would hold -- we know the senate has a majority. and so the chance of getting a conviction -- you can get impeachment but not conviction --...

Of minnesota, a member of the senate judiciary committee and candidate for president thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> i want to switch gears for a moment on this breaking news that we're getting from hyannisport. you worked with ted kennedy in the senate and now one of his nieces reportedly died today, the news released by the family in hyannisport, possibly from drug overdose. i wanted your reaction to that. >> you just think of the tragedy that has hit this family. and it's just one thing after another. obviously we think of them today. but in problem of drug overdoses ...

We cover them like sporting debates. we try to guess which candidates impress the tv audience the most. and we are always guessing about that although we rarely label our statements as the pure guesses they are. we evaluate debating skills. that's the problem with debates. presidents don't have to think on their feet. presidents never have to make a decision alone without advisers who have much more experience on every subject than the president does. so the debates do not test the skills necessary to do the job of president well. it's a job that you never get to see the president do, because ...

He git punched us on the election bill last year. senator langford and myself and senator burr was on the bill, warner. basically the administration made calls directly, don mcguyana the white house council and stopped the bill. calling republicans. >> let's listen to what the president said today about russian interference in the election since this is so relevant to what you were fighting for in the senate floor today. >> robert mueller said last week that russian interfered in u.s. elections right now. did you raise that with vladimir putten >> you don't believe this? do you believe in do y...

Sufficiently briefed on the subject by people who have been working on that subject for their entire careers and know the subject way better than the president ever will. the president doesn't have to sit there on his own trying to think of every relevant fact of a particular policy in 30 seconds. that's not the job. i have seen only one president doing the job of the presidency. and that's because when bill clinton was president i was chief of staff of the finance committee and most of the agenda had to come through my committee. we were repeatedly in meetings with the president in the oval o...