Did under nixon and clinton, the minority be given subpoena power and the white House Counsel be in the room. At least have a vote on the house floor. We are going for it in the most secret room in the capital and all adam schiff is doing is building a secret record in a onesided process to move forward towards impeachment. I think its an unfair process. Jason Speaker Pelosi is refusing to hold a vote on the socalled inquiry but lets be clear. There have already been three votes on impeachment and they all failed miserably. The first two came up during a Republicancontrolled Congress but were resoundingly defeated in a bipartisan vote. The third took place just threea months ago during a democratic majority, that measure also failed with a whopping 137 democrats voting against it. Its no wonder Speaker Pelosi is reluctant to hold a fourth vote. Get this, because the house has already voted against an impeachment proceeding, the f current inquiry is totally invalid unless another formal
Power and the white House Counsel be in the room. And at least have a vote on the house floor to move forward with this so it defies democracy. We are Going Forward in the most secret room in the capitol. And all adam schiff is doing right now is building a secret record in his scif, in a onesided process to move forward towards impeachment. I think its a very unfair process. Jason right now Speaker Pelosi is refusing to hold a vote on the ongoing socalled inquiry. But, lets be clear, there have already been three votes on impeachment and they all failed miserably. The first two came up during a Republican Controlled Congress but were resoundingly defeated in a bipartisan vote. The third took place just three months ago during a democratic majority that measure also failed. With a whopping 137 democrats voting against it. Its no wonder Speaker Pelosi is reluctant to hold a fourth vote. And get this, because the house has already voted against an impeachment proceeding, the current inqu
Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Theres going to be an additional hour of debate at the beginning of the debate about the rules. House will then vote on the articles. We know the numbers. We know what well be saying or reporting on tomorrow night at this hour. But theres something about knowing how its going to turn out that feels like its possibly diminishing the enormity of this. Theres this whats going to happen sense isnt really present. And that, i think, in today s news is part of what feeds, i think, many peoples sense of how big this news is. This is gigantic, even though we know whats going to happen. For the third time in u. S. History year going to impeach a president. Once in the 1800s, once in the 1900s and now for the first time in the 2000s. I think impeachment is both rare enough and i think alive enough wire that anything can happen at any point. I mean i know theyve agreed on the six hours of debate but none of the last hearings on impeachment ha
Be because for the first time in history you have a president who is now running for reelection who is up for impeachment. And you really heard it this morning with that effort to not only scuff up joe biden and his son but sort of almost the commercial advertisements for the Trump Campaign that came at the end of some of the statements that were made by some of the republicans on the committee. Indeed. Peter baker, we witnessed this before, once before in my experience with the bill clinton impeachment. And then, of course, studied and read about watergate where the committees voted and about to impeach and the president was persuaded by republican senators, his fellow republican leaders, going to the white house and saying, youre going to be impeached. Resoon. He, Richard Nixon, thought the better of facing that legacy and left office historically. The difference this time is the republicans are in lockstep. Yeah. I dont see that happening this time. I dont think anybody sees that ha