Moment. This is the story. We will see you tucker this is a fox news alert. Of course, you know exactly what it is about. We are monitoring the house imminent house Impeachment Vote on capitol hill tonight, as well as the president s rally in michigan. Both happening this hour. The Vice President is on stage to introduce the president and just said this whats happening in d. C. Tonight is a disgrace. Right now, meanwhile, on the hill, the final speaker is wrapping up. A lot to get to tonight. Hear from the president and get our analysis. First, back to capitol hill. In this time of great trial and tribulation, may god bless america. I yield back. [cheers and applause] speaker, i yield back. Gentleman from california is recognized. [applause] [gavel] house will be in order. Tucker good evening, welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. You know whats happening. We are preparing for the final vote on impeachment. With us here on the set is bret baier of special report. Bret, you have been enga
Moment in battle creek, michigan, the president about to take the stage to rally voters in that battleground state and talk about christmas. Tucker carlson takes over from washington in just a moment. This is the story. We will see you tomorrow. Tucker this is a fox news alert. Of course you know exactly what it is about. We are monitoring the house Impeachment Vote on capitol hill tonight as well as the president s rally in michigan. Both happening this hour. The Vice President is on stage to introduce the president and just said this whats happening in d. C. Tonight is a disgrace. Right now meanwhile on the hill the final speaker is wrong up. A lot to get to tonight. Hear from the president and get our analysis. First, back to capitol hill. In this time of great trial and tribulation, may god bless america. I yield back. [cheers and applause] speaker, i yield back. Gentleman from california is recognized. [applause] [gavel] house will be in order. Tucker good evening, welcome to tuc
point, precedents are broken all the time. that s true. imagine that republicans take over the house in november and imagine a republican legislative committee decides now on the precedent built here to subpoena or request interviews with democratic members on their conversations with president biden. these things have a way of metastasizing and becoming very uncomfortable precedents that really i don t think serve the long term interests of the house, no matter who is in control. well, i understand that point about the precedent being set. and again, eiit s the novelty, t just the dismissal of precedent that i talk about here. even if the republicans were to do what you re talking about, hasn t a precedent also now been set by the idea of a sitting member of congress being able to thumb your nose and say, no, i don t have to because i think you might be inviting perjury? couldn t democrats ultimately then say, well, you know what, i see you re delegitimizing a duly
imagine a republican legislative committee decides now on the precedent built here to subpoena or request interviews with democratic members on their conversations with president biden. these things have a way of metastasizing and becoming very uncomfortable precedents that really i don t think serve the long term interests of the house, no matter who is in control. well, i understand that point about the precedent being set. and again, it s the novelty, not just the dismissal of precedent that i talk about here. even if the republicans were to do what you re talking about, hasn t a precedent also now been set by the idea of a sitting member of congress being able to thumb your nose and say, no, i don t have to because i think you might be inviting perjury? couldn t democrats ultimately then say, well, you know what, i see you re delegitimizing a duly issued subpoena and i raise you with the same behavior you engaged in. isn t that also a risk and doesn t it disserve what
issues some democrats don t want to take. at the moment they re signaling we ll avert this crisis in the short term. but in the long term, a major question and almost certainly will be back debating this in a couple of months once they sign off on the details of how the short-term agreement will work. couldn t democrats, if they get their build back better reconciliation act together, and get 50 votes for that, couldn t they also put raising the debt ceiling in there and then just pass it with 50 votes and not have to worry about republicans? they could definitely do that, jake, but it would also going through that process, they d have to take additional steps, procedural steps to cast a series of votes in a marathon voting session known as the vote-a-rama. senators can offer as many moments as they want. often times very politically charged amendments aimed at putting their party in a difficult spot. they would have to go through