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
incumbent who put the national fight ahead of winning his district. are impeachments partisan? no, during the nixon impeachment the vote in the house judiciary committee on the first two articles was 27-11. if you do the math, that s over 70%. this was bipartisan and there were republican votes in impeachment of a republican president richard nixon. that s anticipating to what has to happen in the senate if there is going to be the removal of a president. the framers of the constitution designed this to require bipartisan support to overturn the results of an election. that s what jerry nadler was
monumental however you slice it. the absolutist arguments will be off the table probably the united states won t even take those positions. shannon: this court is nuanced. chief justice roberts is narrow and not looking to throw out the constitution and start fresh. obviously we are going to the next step in impeachment. this was the house judiciary chairman nadler back in 1998. there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one major political party and largely opposed by the other. this will go down in infamy in the history november nation. shannon: this is what adam schiff said campaigning back in 1998. i think impeachment for most people in this district is the most graphic illustration of an
they think this is nonsense. shannon: we talked to trey gowdy last night. a long established prosecutor. he said if you think you know what the vote is going to be, you don t waste a lot of times on the argument. you don t want to lose the case. that s what the leadership wants to do in the senate. vote and move on. yes. i don t think there is a willingsness to call hunter biden and joe biden. the president is pushing for a longer impeachment hearing. i don t think it s a winning strategy for this president. i don t think he wants adam schiff testifying. shannon: oh, i don t know. the president might that want. chairman schiff has been effective compared to nadler making the case to the american people. shannon: he wants to ask about the contact with the whistleblower. of course. because adam schiff lied about