moderate. she sometimes books the party line and she s done so in the kavanagh nomination as well as health care. she has said that she is disturbed by mitch mcconnell s discussion of coordination with the white house. that to me, i don t know how big of a chink of in the armor that is for republicans but could it affect the ultimate rules they used going forward in the senate when this trial actually gets underway. i honestly don t see how. the rules are going to be decided by the senate. correct, it is a 51 vote on the rule process is a comes over to the senate. realistically, we all know how this story ends. there are not two-thirds of the senators willing to convict and remove the president. it in an election year for crying out loud. as a consequence, we all know how this ends. the extent that they are simply taking up space and taking up valuable time, i guess that must
goal of this exercise all along with the damage mr. pro-trump s prospect for reelection why wouldn t they want to hold an impeachment over his head for as long as politically possible? then the question is how long can he hold his two articles or potentially more if there was a hit there there could be more coming somewhere down the line. not outside the realm of possibility. how long can they hold a potential impeachment trial? if that s the strategy why were they in a hurry to impeachment before christmas? it runs counter to their entire estate is strategy up until now, what they ve discovered is that they thought after they had these hearings the american people would come around and it would work in the fact is it backfired on them because the popular support for impeachment for removal of the president has declined. what about until march. the senators campaigning can have their chance. the later you of the trial the more likely it is democrats will vote for removal.
year, which will make it even worse. i will give you this. where is it that republicans, if nancy pelosi thinks she has something here and has the tiger by the tail, is there anything that republicans can do other than what you re doing which is coming on tv and talking about it? to move this process along. our the rest of the country just in limbo while you all play politics in washington? i think what should happen in the senate, and that s where the answer ultimately is going to live, as they should go ahead and have the trial whether she passes those articles on or not. going out ahead and hold the trial and let s get this over wet so we can get to work for the american people. interesting. kyle lewis former u.s. attorney had a similar proposal of the president coming in and trying to file something or ask the senate to dismiss the charges it s never been tried before but you seem to be on board with it.
i agree with the professor that the impeachment proceeding, the impeachment document is valid, though it has not been delivered to the senate to proceed forward with a trial. i agree with that part. i sort of disagree with those who think they are just trying to posture to get some additional witness or an additional document. frankly i think again, adam schiff was a former prosecutor. you disagree that s what democrats are trying to do or you don t think the tactic is the right thing or the way the framers envisioned it? good question, i think the democrats are looking for additional evidence. they know, this document in this charge is dead on arrival when it gets to the senate. what do you do is a federal prosecutor? you continue to gather evidence and you wait for the president s tax returns. you look for don mcgann s
democrats could ve gone to court to try and get those witnesses and documents themselves, but chose not to so they could wrap up impeachment by the end of the year, which is why g.o.p. lawmakers are criticizing nancy pelosi for refusing to send the articles of impeachment over to the senate. i think she s realize she is committed to terrible act of political malpractice and i love the analogy somebody gave last week, she is currently holding a live grenade. they ve pulled the pin out and she s got it in her hand and she doesn t know what to do with it. i think she will have to proceed and i think we will have a trial. speaker pelosi decided to hold up the process after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he is not an unbiased juror and would be working glove in hand with the white house and the president s defense. even house democrats can see that nancy pelosi will likely have to send over the impeachment articles to the senate eventually. they are hopeful this pause will ha