Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps out the blueprint and rules of the road
for what democrats say is the next public phase in this impeachment probe. Now many are expecting a Party Line Vote today. Lawmakers will vote on these ground rules which includes moving the closed door depositions of all of these key witnesses into public hearings. Weve seen squabbling over this process. Were expecting in our special coverage to hear from Spe
hisoc supporters will have a chance to be rsheard, to have witnesses that they think can support their case come forward. i think theom rules could not b more important because you have to have faithse in the integrit of this process if you ultimately wanted to have the resultsto you re hoping for. that brings us back to the point senator mccaskill was making. viewers who see things sometimes say why did the hearing go that way? why was it so short? why was it so full of sound bites? i ve talked to voters who say, why do all politicians say at the end of the commercial, i m whoever, and il, approve this message, likeve it s some sort habit. there s a rule that makes you do that, and there areyo rules tha give you five, minutes back an forth.mi as you know,ba under the procedures of congress, that s rule 11. what these rules do that congress is preparing to pass any moment today would suspend that rule 11, as you said, and put in place a different rule that allows for longer and deepe