senate majority leader said they want a short trial. what is the president won t? i asked him that question. listen here. i ll do whatever they want to do. it doesn t matter. i wouldn t mind a long process because i would like to see the whistle-blower who was a fraud. look, we are dealing with a lot of corrupt people. there was nothing done wrong. to use the power of impeachment on this nonsense is an embarrassment to this country. the president just said it, it s an embarrassment to our country. the president who the president was referring to was the president of paraguay was in the oval office with them. senate majority leader said he will coordinate on the way forward with the white house counsel in acknowledgment that does not sit well with democra democrats. i couldn t believe that when i was told that senator mccaul and has said that the senate is working directly with the white house to set up the rules that they want. that is a complete surrender of
what is his role in that? as to whether or not to have witnesses, and less the senate adopts special procedures under the existing rules, a witness would have to be called by a special order, which would be a motion any attorney or any senator can make and that would be voted on on a 51 vote threshold. there is precedent for the chief justice to break a tie on a procedural motion but in today s day and age i don t see chief justice roberts doing it. the last time that happened was happened was chief justice salmon chase in the johnson trial. neil: you are an encyclopedia at young command. thank you very much for feeling one question after another. same deal become excellent read of all things. impeachment, controversy, balance of power, you name it. talking about balance of power, boris johnson has a new five-year lease at ten downing street. this ad might have closed the
there s been some controversy about how quickly mitch mcconnell indicates that he wants to get this done. the president was open to wanting witnesses, even the bidens, what do you think is going to happen? i think it could unravel in one of two ways. i think it s to the president views the way i ve taken his comments is he just wants a fair process. beyond that, he is open to letting the senate work its will. what i think we could see is either some variation of the clinton progress where it s mainly arguments with may be a few closed-door witness depositions, or we could see a fulsome trial with witnesses being called the dust in the senate. i think it could be one of those two. which? i m not sure. neil: real quickly, i know the supreme court chief justice will be involved in that but he has no say in how the senate connects this, right? the senate is going to say we are not going to have witnesses, it s going to be very fast.