or at least massage the president in a direction that he wants him to go. so that is lindsey being lindsey. he is not the shy sharing his opinions with lindsey graham. and that could be an attempt to influence the president and have him go towards a short trial, not something that is drawn out and could potentially go on into february. all right. hans, thank you so much. fresh intrigue on the expected full house vote on wednesday. will there be defections? vulnerable democrats feeling the heat. one house democrat already going on record saying that he will oppose it. let s go to josh lieberman. and so with a welcome to you. so there are these reports out there that the house democrats are bracing for some defections in next week s vote. where does all of this stand, do we have a read on who is going where? key point here, is that republicans will get their desired talking point of being
elections. just astonishing. it is. some 45 years later, how things have changed. you i want i want to take a look what the lindsey graham was saying, he said that the trial will be short, mitch mcconnell saying he is work hand-in-hand with the white house. is there anything that democrats can do to change that narrative? because there is the report that judiciary committee may delay sending the articles to the senate to negotiate rules. is that possible? well, you know, it is possible. assuming that the votes are there on wednesday to adopt these articles of impeachment, the delivery to the senate is, you know, up to the speaker when that gets sent over. like any bill. but i do think, you know, in the past with the clinton impeachment and certainly judicial impeachments are different, you coordinate, you know, witnesses. that is fine to do coordination on logistics.
disrespect to the constitution and to our framers. and mcconnell defending that comment to reporters says that that kind of coordination has happened before. not surprisingly president clinton and the democrats and the senate were coordinating on a strategy. we re on the same side. tom dash chchle said he didn. i you rust today that he did. denny heck is joining me. always good to see you, my friend. you just heard mitch mcconnell as well as your colleague rebuke of him for suggesting that the senate trial is a fay fait accompli. do you accept it as just today he s politics as ish? of course i don t accept it. and it is important to know that it is a violation of his oath of office, not the oath that you think of, the one at the beginning of every session where we all raise our right hand and
and destroying jobs all in exchange for bigger profits for insurance companies. tell congress, put patients first, not big insurance. we all know how it is going to bd. there is no chance the president will be removed from office. my hope is that there won t be a single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. and it wouldn t surprise me if we got one or two democrats. and as the house prepares for that vote, the senator who has the very most sway in how a potential trial will look, that
if you wonder what will happen in washington, impeachment will be over probably by mid-january. personally i think president trump will come out of this stronger. i guess he has it all wrapped up. at least house democrats from 31 trump leaning districts still have not decided if they are going to vote president trump. republicans taking advantage of that uncertainty putting pressure on those undecided democrats to vote against impeachment. they will have until wednesday to decide and that is when the full house is expected to vote. that senate trial is already facing criticism after majority leader mitch mcconnell said that he is coordinating everything he does for the proceeding with the white house. the foreman of the jury mitch mcconnell, the guy that decides all the rules, is actually going to coordinate with the defendant. that makes no sense whatsoever. it is an outrage. and frankly, it is a tremendous