will have some rules and the articles of impeachment will be over and we ll know what we re doing. and there are house democrats in vulnerable districts who voted to impeach in the house and they say they re okay with risking losing their seat. you re a democratic senator in alabama. if your conscious leads to vote to remove him from office is that something you re willing to do know you re going to risk losing your seat? well i think my oath of office and my duty to the constitution and the rule of law comes first. and so my conscience is my guide. i have experience prosecuting cases and i m going back and forth but at the end of the day we take a second oath to do fair and impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws of the united states and that is another reason i m looking at this because if i violate in a oath, i violated the oath of office i took as a u.s. senator.
love or don t like the president, he was impeached in the house. what i see here is, and i think it will work against the democrats because most of the public that is out there are are wondering, i don t know what to think, that is a cesspool of partisan politics back in washington, d.c. if the impeachment looks even more political than they think it already has, i think it cuts against the democrats and so if democrats democrats in tight seats will say why we made this vote and by the way we re playing this political game on trying to frame the narrative that i want when it goes to the senate. i think this is fraught with political trouble. i think schumer talked pelosi into it over a conversation and now they re trying to dig their way out of it. i don t think this was well thought through. up next, where president trump is heading that has some of his aides worried. plus they ve got millions of readers and a message for trump s base. why president trump is attacking a major ev
the aisle to try to figure out the ways to get things done for the country and i think if you look at what happened in the last two weeks, aside from impeachment, there was a lot of great things for the american people. senator doug jones of alabama, thank you for joining us. my pleasure. thank you for having me. smaller stage, bigger fights. why a battle over a wine cave took center stage in the democratic debate. there are countless people working to help them get there. thank you to everyone we rely on to get us home to the ones we love. at chevy, we re all about bringing families together.
work for bill clinton in this period and that is part of why the strategy of having an outside strategy talking about the chi and your accomplishments works because while you might be frustrated, you know you are still making headway an other issues and at this point all trump is talking he should talk about the deals he s got done in the last couple of weeks, all he s talking about is frustration and anger over impeachment so he is defining the narrative for the next couple of weeks. we know certainly where his mind is. something else that he may or may not be choosing to deal with is late today we learned that 25 jewish members of congress are calling for trump adviser steven mill tore be fired for what they describe as his support for white nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric after emails showed he was promoting the views and organizations align with those views. the trump administration claims that is, in fact, miller being subjected himself to anti-semitism. i wonder what
president trump, speaker nancy pelosi holding on to the articles but not when the president is looking for total exoneration. nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell are now at a stalemate as congress goes on a holiday break. reporter: president trump s impeachment trial may be officially stalled but behind the scenes house democrats are are getting ready. staff for the key house committees are expected to work over the holiday recess consulting and prepping for a trial as early as the week of january 6th but that depends on nancy pelosi who said she won t send the articles of impeachment to the senate until parameters for a senate trial are set. when they wrote the constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. i don t think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. reporter: in the senate, mitch mcconnell this afternoon arranged for white house staff