From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.

I'm Steve Kurnaki. Today is Friday, October 25th, and here's what's happening.

What's going on is a run around the impeachment process, creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors.

That's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday

introducing a resolution to condemn the house impeachment process.

That fundamentally, in my view, denies due process.

And when you're talking about removing the president of the United States,

seems to me you'd want to have a process that is consistent with

who we are as Americans. The co-sponsor of Graham's resolution is the Senate

majority leader, Mitch McConnell. He's been speaking out against the inquiry for weeks.

Are you willing to defend the president?

I'm willing to talk about the process in the House. I just did. I think it's grossly unfair

and I think the president has a legitimate

complaint about the process. The Graham McConnell resolution attacks the

process that Democrats are using but notably it doesn't say anything about

the allegations about President Trump and Ukraine.

There has been a general assumption that if the inquiry comes to a Senate trial, that McConnell

will use his strategic prowess to protect the president at all costs.

But how sure are we about that?

And what is his strategy when it comes to impeachment?

Frank Thorpe is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News.

If you've read the book Master of the Senate, Robert Carra, it was about Linden Lyndon Johnson, but for our purposes today, Frank will

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