doors of the process that began several weeks ago, it is nonpartisan officials who, if they had to pick a side, might lean a little bit right, had implicated or called into question what the president has done. so far that process has played out behind closed doors. when it moves into the public, it will take on a really different cast. part of the reason why these conversations or interviews have gone on behind closed doors, sure, may have been to try to minimize a republican s ability to change the narrative, but there is no provision in place so adam schiff had to play that dual role. there has to be an investigatory part that precedes the public hearing part where you get enough basis of information to try to figure out if you re going forward. we re done with that now. this is what s moving forward. margaret has a point in that there is a pattern of white house officials, state department officials defying the
ample safeguards in the process that will be given and that will be adhered to. the resolution is necessary to ensure that our constitutional order remains intact for future generations. what we have seen are allegations of conduct on many levels that, if proven to be true, are a challenge to the democratic order, to the democratic norms on which we all depend. we must hand this country to our children with its democracy in as good a shape as when it was handed to us. we simply have no choice because no one can be above the law, and we must enforce that. i now yield to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. engel. you re listening there to two of the top democrats of the intelligence committee, chairman schiff and mr. nadler who would
he absolutely believes that it exonerates them and this is what democrats say is the smoking gun against him. that is where we are right now. bret: hears the house chairman adam schiff talking about the procedure going forward. during the depositions we have conducted thus far we have used a form that we believe very conducive to the fact-finding process. those procedures that will be incorporated into the open hearings in which staff counsel will be permitted for a lengthy period of time to do sustained questioning for up to 25 minutes per side. followed by member questioning. he has had three days of closed-door hearings. he has a bunch of closed-door hearings next week. nothing has changed about the way this is going to go forward. they have already predetermined their outcome. bret: there are some talks to go back to byron s point
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without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. bret: it s a formal process, resolution pass of the house today. the vote was 2:30 2-196. no republicans voted for this resolution, two democratic votes, no boats representatives chef andrew and collin peterson of new jersey and minnesota. independent from michigan voted yes. let s bring in our panel and see where we go from here. publisher of the federalist. national political correspondent of national public radio. byron york, chief correspondent of the washington examiner. this sets the table for the next steps, public hearings to calm. your thoughts on this day and what it means big picture? this has a lot of about the republicans have said they want to the democrats to do.