later, is such a different place. do you even think we ll get that? do you think we ll get agreed-upon rules? i hope so. it s a majority vote so there may be some dissenters among that. but i think we all realize you got to have some rules. people want to know exactly what the schedule s going to be. and in that last impeachment, you know, there were some times where there was not a session so that the attorneys could work through their presentation to the senate. so it ll also be dependent on what counsel needs in order to prepare for the trial. so i think it s fairly flexible. we don t know what to expect. but i certainly hope there will be an agreement. i know my caucus wants to work to get some sort of agreement that we can all get around. senator, you are also a member of the arm services committee. we are getting conflicting reports. we there were reports in the wall street journal that the trump administration is considering sending about 14,000 troops to the middle east
when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck. that s when you know, it s half-washed. downy helps prevent stretching by conditioning fibers, so clothes look newer, longer. downy and it s done. the senate is getting ready for what could be only the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation s history. as house democrats draw up articles of impeachment against president trump. senate republicans and democrats are already holding strategy sessions to prepare for a possible trial early next year. a senior senate democratic aide told nbc news that earlier this week, senate minority leader chuck schumer gave a presentation of mechanics of the trial that included clips of bill clinton s impeachment trial. joining us now to take a closer look is michigan democratic senator gary peters. he came into office after the
clinton impeachment proceedings. senator, good to see you. thank you for joining us. it s great to be with you. thank you. what is your expectation of how this is going to unfold? from a timing perspective and how it s going to go in the senate? it s really difficult to to know right now. we all we know is that leader mcconnell put out the schedule for next year. left january blank. we ll have to see how it flushes out in january. obviously, when it actually starts in the senate, a lot of that s determined by speaker pelosi. should the articles be voted on in the house, she has to send it over to the senate. and and that, she has some discretion in. so we don t know exactly what day it ll start. but then there will be negotiations between leader mcconnell and leader schumer to figure out exactly what schedule that we will follow in the weeks ahead. you know, in 1999, democrats and republicans, those rules were actually agreed upon unanimously by democrats and republicans.
house has been, at each iteration, that they are not participating. and in some ways, a more arm s reach kind of situation where they have blocked things like subpoenas. not made people available to testify and so on. so today, expect a kind of a period at the end of the sentence when it comes to participation in any of the house proceedings. we expect that letter and notification will come sometime this afternoon. no no expectation that that won t take place. and all the indications we re getting, and of course we ve got to wait to see it officially, is that the president will take a pass on the house and wait for the senate. with the belief that because they sort of, at this point, their assessment is this is on a train with the numbers on the democratic side leading toward an impeachment vote. and then the next process goes to the senate where republicans are in charge. and the form is different. it s an actual trial with the chief justice of the supreme court presiding. the oppor
is paying attention and will be for days to come, but we at axios got exclusive data that showed that actually a lot of the debate topics didn t breakthrough the online noise. the stories with the most engagement online last week according to this data had to do with tulsi gabbard and her feud with hillary clinton, aoc endorsing bernie sanders and warren taking on the billiona e billionair billionaires. while tulsi gabbard and elizabeth warren are running for president, that engagement and online attention wasn t necessarily tied to the debates. i want to touch on the impeachment inquiry, house intel chair adam schiff taking on a very prominent role amidst the trump impeachment inquiry. why is that so significant? if we think back to president bill clinton s impeachment trial, ken starr, the independent special counsel and investigator was sort of the face of that inquiry and trial. democrats haven t ruled out the fact of having an outside special counsel come to oversee this pro