about having to do what they re doing and the republicans really just kind of throwing in the towel. they don t really have a defense of the president. they don t really have a defense of the conduct. they make some lame arguments about the procedural defects they claim in this process. but basically they are just sitting there waiting for this to be over because they know that the house is going to do its job and this committee will proceed to vote tomorrow on articles of impeachment. we always turn to you for how this differs from the diversion of this that occurred during the nixon impeachment in that same committee. well, first of all what i heard is pretty much what ron heard. with the republicans having no factual rebuttal to anything that the democrats are saying. and they are holding firm, which is something that didn t happen during watergate. during watergate the republicans actually listened to the facts. i heard an argument this is
but basically they are just sitting there waiting for this to be over because they know that the house is going to do its job and this committee will proceed to vote tomorrow on articles of impeachment. jill, we always turn to you for how this differs from the diversion of this that occurred during the nixon impeachment in that same committee. well, first of all, what i heard is pretty much what ron heard. with the republicans having no factual rebuttal to anything that the democrats are saying. and they are holding firm, which is something that didn t happen during watergate. during watergate the republicans actually listened to the facts. i ve heard an argument that this is happening too fast. but it happened fast because donald trump did what he did in public. and it was discovered immediately, it was reported immediately, and that s why it happened quickly. so the other argument i m