"MORNING JOE" COMES BACK. WE >>> SHE HATES THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
PARTY. SHE HATES ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT
VOTED FOR HER.
>> THAT WAS THE PRESIDENT ON
CHRISTMAS EVE MORNING SHORTLY
AFTER HE PARTICIPATED IN A VIDEO
CONFERENCE WHERE HE EXCHANGED
HOLIDAY GREETINGS WITH MEMBERS
OF THE MILITARY STATIONED AROUND
THE GLOBE.
THE GLOBE. THE ANGER FOR NANCY PELOSI
CONTINUED INTO THE NIGHT WHERE
HE QUESTIONED WHETHER THE HOUSE
HAD THE AUTHORITY TO IMPEACH
HIM.
HIM. HE TWEETED LAST NIGHT PART,
QUOTE, WHY SHOULD CRAZY NANCY
PELOSI, AGAIN, ON CHRISTMAS,
JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS A SLIGHT
MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE BE ALLOWED
TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES?
UNITED STATES? PERHAPS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DO
SOMETHING THAT HE’S NEVER DONE
BEFORE AND READ THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES.
HE MIGHT ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND HOW
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE HAS
THAT POWER.
THAT POWER. OF EITHER PARTY.
MEANWHILE, ONE KEY REPUBLICAN
SENATOR LISA MUR KOWSKOWSKI IS
DISAPPOINTED WITH MITCH
McCONNELL TO BE --
>> WHEN I HEARD THAT I WAS
DISTURBED.
DISTURBED. IF WE ARE TASKED AS THE FULL
SENATE TO DO IMPARTIAL JUSTICE
UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND THE
LAW, THAT’S THE OATH THAT WE
WILL SWEAR TO UPHOLD AT THE
COMMENCEMENT OF THIS PROCEEDING,
THEN, TO ME, IT MEANS THAT WE
HAVE TO TAKE THAT STEP BACK FROM
BEING HAND IN GLOVE WITH THE
DEFENSE.
DEFENSE. AND SO I -- I HEARD WHAT LOOERPD
McCONNELL HAD SAID.
I HAPPEN TO THINK THAT THAT HAS
FURTHER CONFUSED THE PROCESS.
>> MURKOWSKI’S REMARKS ARE
SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE A 51-VOTE
SIMPLE MAJORITY IS ALL THAT’S
NEEDED TO SET IMPEACHMENT RULES.
REPUBLICANS ONLY HAVE 53 VOTES,
MEANING DEMOCRATS WOULD NEED
FOUR REPUBLICANS TO BREAK RANKS
AND ACTUALLY CALL FOR WITNESSES.
CALL FOR EVIDENCE.
CALL FOR THE VERY THINGS, DEPUTY
VIRTIONS FOR
VIRTIONS FOR DEPOSITIONS, THE VERY THINGS
THAT REPUBLICANS CALLED FOR AND
GOT IN ’99 AND GOT WITH