the speaker didn t need to do any of this. she could have conducted business in a closed door meeting. i m not sure what you get out of this except, you know, you give comfort to some folks who are in very safe districts and you make people in swing districts very nervous. dave, to your point, it s not going to change sorry. it s not going to change no. you know, how the white house handles this ordeals with it? no. just like jeff said earlier. just because they vote this way i don t think all of a sudden the white house counsel is going to say, since you ve had this procedural vote, we ll turn this information over to you. it will change absolutely nothing. i m sorry. go ahead. i didn t mean to interrupt. jeff, it s not going to change anything. i think, anderson, i go back to the washington post january 20th, 2017, you know, the move to impeach president trump has begun on inauguration day.
no, this seems to be different. and i am so encouraged. i think this is good for the republicans as well as the democrats. the congressmen, with all due respect, are such extraordinary blowhards that they are a, all they want to do is hear their own voices and, b, don t know how to ask a question to tell a story. both sides will be able to use this testimony to tell a story. right. the public can then, you know, make up its mind about which story is more persuasive, but the nonsense of five minutes from each side is a miserable way to extract information. ridiculous. this is much better, i think, for all concerned. and you re going to be able to read some of the secret testimony because they re going to release they re going to start releasing some of these transcripts. we know that the attorneys are up there checking out the transcripts of their clients. so, you know, the public is going to have a lot of the story before you get the testimony so
operation, but i think pulling out any of the troops right now is problematic for some of the follow-on information that they re going to gain from this raid because we know they were able to stay in the house for some time, probably collect some information and in order to act on that, it s hard to launch all of these operations from inside iraq or turkey. i think it s going to have a follow-on impact but it could have disrupted this option. you spend a lot of time tracking isis, al baghdadi. what was it like for you personally when you learned of the circumstances of his death and that he had been killed? well, and i spent a lot of time also tracking zarqawi and this succession and the iterations of these organizations, it s a relief on one hand given the amount of
people to testify. gloria, the idea that the congressman was just saying that it s going to be staff members doing the questioning as opposed to members of congress, we haven t seen that for a while. that s pretty interesting. you know, there were a lot of there was a lot of talk of should not have been done in, you know, the mueller testimony, in other testimonies, but do you think that s going to make much of a difference in terms of public perception? well, i don t know if it s going to make much of a difference in public perception. it may mean that you get more or better information out of the witnesses because, of course, the committee lawyers are really steeped in all of this. and i don t know if that will happen on the republican side as well or just on the democratic side. if there are republican attorneys and republican members of congress, you can be sure they re going to go back to the deep state and the sort of the rat hole about, well, these are all democrats. the
you re destined to strike out big league. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. and thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 with anderson starts now. good evening. we start with breaking news tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi this afternoon announced the impeachment inquiry is about to enter a new, more public phase trying to at least in part undercut a key republican talking point in the process. the speaker informed her colleagues in a letter that the house will hold a vote on thursday on rules that establish the rights of the public to see the information collected from witnesses during closed-door testimony and how that information will be transferred to the judiciary committee which is responsible for recommending articles of impeachment. it will also establish the rights of the president and his do counsel as they head for an impeachment vote. much of her letter was not about the process ahead, it was rather