doors? reporter: the posture is he s not distracted. baloney. the president is obsessed with his impeachment. he s fixated on this. he s angered by this. his own daughter conceded to cbs earlier that he s anxious ri about this. he s angry about this. the problem for the president is he is not going to remove the stain from his legacy. he s not going to unimpeach himself and that is why republican, his allies and so on have been trying to say listen get through the senate trial process and you still have a chance and a good chance, according to a lot of his allies in getting re-elected. that is where his allies and his advisers are hoping he will focus his energy on as we head into the new year. no question about it, john. one of the things we have noticed all week long talking to our sources and officials inside
will be complicit in the continuing threat if they fail to provide a full and fair hearing. have you heard from susan collins or senator cory gardener or mitt romney. do you have any indication they would side with democrats in calling for a trial with witnesses? there s no question, john. that is the question of the day that they are contemplating, seriously and considering how this trial has to be conducted. mitch mcconnell is nothing without his enablers. he needs those 51 votes and i ve been talking to anywhere from five to 10 of my colleagues directly or indirectly who are considering how they will be haunted by this decision if they deny a full fair trial.
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idea, a concept or whatever you want to call it, once he s committed himself to something he has no reverse gear. it s impossible for him to admit he s wrong about anything. it s a question of can t. trump has to been the smartest person in the room. in washington where he s dealing with genuine subject matter, experts, people who have committed their entire lives to studying russia or india or china or whatever, he s so far out of his depth that he just can t bear it. that s a guy with an egg shell ego and back to putin. putin knew exactly how to play it. any thoughts about why he s so deferential to putin? i m the minority that believes there s probably embarrassing tape, certainly
shows the american people what a full trial looks like, or do you want one that gets over quickly knowing that the end result is going to be the same? of course there have been witnesses before. andrew johns andrew johnson s impeachment trial, bill clinton s impeachment trial. the precedent is there, but that doesn t always matter in these situations. david, the president of the united states on his way to mar-a-lago. as we ve noted before, he can get himself worked up down there. what do you think happens to him over these next two weeks as he stares this in the face? terrific question. i think it s exactly the right question to pursue. listen, in the nixon case and in the clinton case, the past two cases of impeachment or impeachment proceedings, the proceedings brought an end to the controversy. richard nixon left office, and we opened a new chapter in american history. and bill clinton essentially was very contrite. you know, he went back to work, and that ended the clinton thi