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You know, are they going to be able to prove something about hunter biden? i'm not really sure, but it's clear to me that what schumer's trying to do is put mcconnell in a box here, for weeks and months, republicans have been arguing that all of this has been happening in secrecy or needs more information, if you need more information, let's have more witnesses. if you are a concern about secrecy, let's have these people testify in person. it ups the pressure, democrats know they only need to get four republicans to come along with them. to control the rules there are at least three moderates,...

>> but that shows schumer positive ternlly, if you do this how the president wants, you may lose your voice. they think this was reckless. they think rudy giuliani flying around ukraine was reprehensible. some say it was not impeachable in their view, but they don't like it. >> when you hear from members anonymously whether or not they will put their name on a quote and what you're hearing publicly, there is a difference of the a lot of them expressing private concerns. what schumer has tapped into and realizes is it doesn't matter what the president wants in terms to this trial. it doesn't ma...

Election security. what schumer is looking for is a follow-on bill that was passed by the house that would add another $775 million and say to campaigns, if you get any feelers from any foreign country, you have to report that. it would establish a kind of paper trail of ballots so that if there were some cyber attack, that there would be paper evidence of who people actually voted for. those are the bills, the measures, that mcconnell has blocked. two reasons really. one, he said they're partisan bills. two, he said they haven't spent the $380 million that's been appropriated so far. so why d...

Happen. he started talking about the illegal investigation. >> and it is not. >> exactly. >> to be clear, this is a legal, important investigation. it's an important investigation -- >> the president you heard he said it was an illegal takedown that failed. >> he would not be so generous as to say that, in fact, the justice department had done its job. bob mueller had done his job. bill barr had done his job, and rosenstein who he once tweeted a picture of behind bars had done his job, but we're not going to hear any of that from the president. from the democrats, it's clear to me when you loo...

Check it out. >> the president will say predictably that the state of our union is strong but the truth is the state of the trump economy is failing america's middle class. the state of the trump healthcare system is failing american families. and the state of the trump administration is embroiled in chaos and incompetence. the state of our union is in need of drastic repair. >> bill: so much for coming together, huh? 300,000 new jobs last week, sir. annual economic growth may get to 3% this year. unemployment hovers near its lowest point since the vietnam war. wages are growing at the fastest...