>> we just heard from senator makowski saying she was disturbed by the majority leader's process, butstill does not indicate there is likely to be a removal. as you said, the house voted among party lines. no republicans supported the impeachment of president trump, and as of right now, most republicans are sticking by president trump. what does this mean, this hesitancy of senator murkowski from alaska? it comes down to two things, what does she want to do, how disturbed she, what kind of take, does she want to and are there other senate republicans who want to join her? if so, it might bend process of how they hold the trial from what the white house wants. far too many republican voters support him and their elected senators are unlikely to abandon ship. paul: there's really not a lot of precedent for this kind of thing, is there? greg: that's right. leader, the majority does have a lot of leeway in how he wants to set it up. in american history, only two presidents have actually been impeached, and neither have been removed from office. was nott nixon impeached, but congress was p

. >> if 51% of soldiers side with lisa makowski saying we want to bring in the witnesses so that the democrats didn't bring in that they wanted to bring in, that the white house said would not testify, that would be tough for mitch mcconnell to turn down. >> reporter: democrats expressing that makowski another would support fair trial loving keep white house officials to testify. >> 70% of the public wants to see witnesses. i think it was the republicans resident location. >> reporter: we expect little to happened till then, on the basement front. in washington, lauren ventured, fox news. stomach status disease and to return unwanted gifts. the custody inverse shopping centers left some expert insight in this year's holiday shopping season. >> we have been sitting in line for so long. >>> how long that this gorgeous weather less? i have details, coming up in your forecast. >>> overall spending this holiday season in-store and online 3.4%. may push the percentage even higher. right now, people are heading to molson now that they consider to be the ultimate bargain shopping extravaganz

today we have heard from republican senator lisa makowski. she's from alaska and she said she was disturbed when she heard majority leader mitch mcconnell wasn't total coordination with the white house on a senate impeachment trial. mcconnell has called impeachment a political charade and here in florida the president is focused on the speaker who led the effort to impeach him. >> all i know is my poll numbers are the highest they've ever been. our fund-raising get in the republican party is the ever been. she hates the republican party. she hates all of the people that voted for me and the republican party. >> speaker pelosi are withholding the articles of impeachment to compel republicans to allow weakness in the impeachment trial. so we cannot go forward with impeachment matters until we know what kind of trial of the will conduct. what's his excuse now? congress is out for the holidays so this impasse continues. billy and rob? >> i saw this pop up on twitter yesterday, this advice for dealing with if you are a trump supporter dealing with

see makowski is senior fellow at eurasia center at the atlantic council makis also former nato chief of staff he joins us on skype from st petersburg in the u.s. state of florida the difference in pittsburgh it's it's good to have you with us i want to get your thoughts 1st of all on this is what the international community is saying this is a breach of international law this goes against ukrainian sovereignty. that's right it's very interesting that this bridge opened up only several weeks after russia reentered formal peace negotiations with ukraine in paris as part of the normandy format what i think it showcases the continued russian push to solidify their control over crimea something that they have never and will likely have never agreed to give back to ukraine and it showcases russia's continued interest in undermining ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and also rejecting international sanctions that have been put in place against russia so many ways it's a solidification of the status quo of the criminals trying to hold crimea closer to the russian version that y

senator makowski voted against the confirmation of justice cavanaugh during that controversial confirmationicans who have concerns with president trump and leader mcconnell. she is not saying she will vote to convict president trump, what she is saying is that she has concerns with the process. aader mcconnell is needing simple majority in the senate, not two thirds, to advance the rules package for how that impeachment trial will go. she is potentially having some leverage there that she sees say she pushed for a failed trial. -- fair trial. scarlet? scarlet: kevin cirilli keeping watch for us on the latest on the impeachment. he will get us the latest there. we are back with andrew hollenhorst of citi. the impeachment has not factored citi,your work over at but you said people are watching the horse race between the democratic presidential nominees more closely than the impeachment situation. andrew: that's right. we have a lot of interest around the democratic primary and i think that is because the field between investors between the democrats and republicans, within the democratic part

scarlet: we will continue to watch for whether at leads to more senators echoing what senator makowskiski said. toare waiting for pelosi hand this over to the senate because nothing can happen until then. what is she waiting for? kevin: it is so interesting. we headed into the holiday with this working assumption she would hand over those documents. we are now hearing there is an open debate amongst lawyers, and there are a lot in washington, about whether the senate has to wait for speaker pelosi to do vote or if the automatic would trigger the senate to be able to do that. there is a procedural debate happening, but still the working assumption is this will get underway in january. from her perspective, speaker pelosi's office, potentially using this as leverage to negotiate with the senate to get them to do more witnesses, bets -- but senator mcconnell is locked in a stare down. scarlet: what is the best case scenario, to drag this out and let it hang over the president? kevin: yes. it is an interesting reverse in terms of how we started this. the working assumption was the democrat