mitch mcconnell told us that. i mean, this is some good old fashioned soviet style justice. so trump will be impeached. and he will carry that shame of being indicted by the house of representatives for abuse of office and defying congress for the rest of his natural life. one of the president s biggest defenders had this to say a short time ago about the trial expected to start early next year. if you wonder what s going to happen in washington, 350e789 wi impeachment will be over probably about mid-january. personally i think that president trump will come out of this stronger. we have a lot to go through as the house considers the impeachment vote. and speedy trial? lindsey graham is giving a time frame on how the impeachment saga will play out.
they voted to impeach the president. so i think that it is a vanishly small chance. liz, let s move on to the senate trial. republicans are trying to avoid an impeachment trial civil war. senators are reluctant to call controversial witnesses that trump and house republicans want to have testify, not ruling it out yet. what do you think, do you think the gop senators get their way? i do think that there is a growing consensus among republican laurnl lawmakers th they have witnesses, then democrats will have witnesses. one said that it was a double edge sword. so the tradeoff he have calling hunter biden or someone like that that trump has demanded or would like to see is democrats saying that we want mick mulvaney, we have questions about who ordered the aid stopped and when that are a holdover from the house proceedings. so i do think that there is a growing support for this strategy that mitch mcconnell has laid out of just going fast
assistant u.s. attorney nelson cunningham. always glad to is your voice added to this conversation. so nelson, my immediate reaction to hearing that from giuliani is why does he not make all of this information that he is supposedly gathering to exonerate his client public? well, there are two answers to that. one of them which is probably the truth which is that he actually discovered nothing so he has nothing to offer. and the second, let me be a little bit more charitable, there is going to be some kind of a trial in the senate. you just had a segment exploring this, will it be a trial with witnesses or a short trial. but will be some kind of a trial in the senate. and a can a can any oig litigat knows that in the real trial an element of is you are price can
and joining me right now, hans nichols. so let s get right into what the senator said. two decisions the president has to make, who will be representing him when the trial likely get takes place. and the long or the short. let s listen to lindsey graham. if you don t like president trump, you can vote against him in less than a year. so i think that impeachment is going to end quickly in the senate. i would prefer to end as quickly as possible. use the record that was assembled in the house to pass impeachment articles as your trial record. i don t want to call anybody. i don t need to hear from hunter bid biden, i don t need to hear from joe biden, we can deal with that outside of impeachment. i don t want to talk to pompeo or pence. and so he thinks it that will be quick and also his preferences on who he wants
is leader mcconnell, all but guarantees there an acquittal for the president and promises total coordination with the white house. joining me to discuss that now, kalil cam kalila harris and also rick tyler. how fair of a trial do you think this will be? well, i think we ve gone from being a super power to a super banana republic. look, it won t be fair, but i think what mitch mcconnell is doing here, he s signaling to the democrats who by the way have not impeached the president and so he has not been accused of anything so there hasn t been a trial is the conclusion is foregone. i mean, if there is one thing mitch mcconnell say what you want about him, but he knows how to count votes and there are not the votes to quikts so that w t. and so we have to consider