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let's bring in for their senator byron dorgan. great to see you as well. i just asked former senator trent lott what he thought of mitch mcconnell's performance and he said he thinks he's doing a good job. you clearly do not share that sentiment. >> byron: well, as you know, he said publicly he is not impartial, whatever that means, i guess. here's the circumstance, first of all, accommodations to trump flat and tom daschle, they were close, they worked together, they understood even though one was a republican and one was a democrat they wanted the senate to do the right things good for them. this new impeachment trial is vastly different than the impeachment trial 20 years ago. i will tell you how, 20 years ago, the impeachment trial was provided, all the documents of kenneth starr who spent 3.5 years, he got all the witnesses in front of a grand jury under oath, all the documents, he had everything that was compiled, including a 9-0 supreme court decision that forced the president to be under oath before a grand jury. that all existed, he laid that befo

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joining me is former republican senator byron dorgan of north dakota, and michael steele, msnbc legalst. senator, you were part of the impeachment trial, you know senator mcconnell. is it appropriate in your view for the majority leader to be advising the president this closely, especially when he is also a juror? >> craig, first of all, former democratic senator i should say. >> sorry about that. >> that's fine. look, mcconnell i think in many ways has been an enabler for donald trump. he is i'm sure advising him on certain things. i think he's also in a situation where mitch mcconnell wants to get to the senate floor with this trial and have a quick trial and acquittal for the president. the question should be what is a fair trial? i would hope that mitch mcconnell and the president would both allow information to be available and witnesses to be available so that there was a fair trial but i don't think that's going to happen. >> michael steele, this moment likely to test the relationship between these two gentlemen as the post notes, quote, the first test may come when the trial b

we begin right now with byron dorgan who served as a senate juror in the inwhiimpeachment trial.ew year and good evening, sir. >> thank you, ari. >> great to have you here. what do you make of where this is headed, evidence trickling out through the legal process, through the press reporting while the white house obviously is sticking by the strategy that got trump impeached or at least the second article of impeachment, the obstruction, and your former colleagues pushing back ever so gently, a whispered push back, if you will, to leader mcconnell. >> right. you know, a cover up is really hard to maintain in our government. it just -- somebody's going to pry things out of it. and in the last couple of days, these emails that have been pried out of the defense department, omb, the white house, you know, they show exactly what has happened, what this plot has been. and we don't know everything, but we know two things. we know the president asked the president of ukraine for a favor, to investigate his political rival here at home, the president's rival. and also, we know from these

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