sort of partisan circus, making it so that there is a flow, an uninterrupted flow of questions. so that s why they re getting this 45-minute chunk each. however, we do expect that these two men will cede most of their time to the committee staff lawyers. on the left you have daniel goldman, the democratic counsel. he s a former federal prosecutor with the southern district of new york who prosecuted new york city mob crime family. also on the right the republican counsel. he is counsel for the oversight committee but he s been brought over specifically for this hearing. democrats will ask questions to essentially establish the facts. they want to weave together a narrative, and republicans will certainly be trying to defend the president as you heard manu said. and then this is the rest of the house intelligence committee. on the left-hand side you see 12 democrats. they will each get five minutes, and then on the right-hand side, these are all the members, the eight republicans.
under oath to congress and being under oath to the fbi, you can t tell different stories without criminally lying in one of those circumstances. now, i mentioned that today s hearing was the first conducted under new rules adopted by the judiciary committee last week to essentially set the parameters for their impeachment investigation of the president this was the first hearing under those parameters one of those new rules adopted by the committee last week gave the committee the ability to have committee staff lawyers ask questions of witnesses in addition to questions being asked by members themselves. so, yeah, members of congress all want their five minutes. but in addition to that under these new rules, staff lawyers get to ask too and that s really important. and we knew that was going to be really important when they agreed to that we got to see it in action today because when the staff lawyers started asking questions of lewandowski, that s where it really got good. i mean hel
this was the first hearing under those parameters one of those new rules adopted by the committee last week gave the committee the ability to have committee staff lawyers ask questions of witnesses in addition to questions being asked by members themselves. so, yeah, members of congress all want their five minutes. but in addition to that under these new rules, staff lawyers get to ask too and that s really important. and we knew that was going to be really important when they agreed to that we got to see it in action today because when the staff lawyers started asking questions of lewandowski, that s where it really got good. i mean hello, congressional committees unsolicited advice here, but professional staff are better asking questions in 30-minute uninterrupted blocks than you are in five-minute increments where you ping pong back and forth. therefore, you should do the staff questioning part first, or at least at a very convenient time to be covered on tv if you did that first, t