Doing their business. This might actually start on time. Mike pompeo doesnt get enough attention. There is two scenarios, he was helping to orchestrate the off book Political Campaign run by donald trump and Rudy Giuliani, or he was oblivious to what was being done to all of his employees. He was asked repeatedly to defend her, and we have on the record in testimony a call from the State Department to yovanovitch at 1 00 in the morning where they say we need to get you out on the next plane. What did he do . I think the fact pattern is just as par real for mike cpompeo as trump. We know that mike pompeo was listening in on the phone call of which donald trump said of that former ambassador. That bad woman, bad things are going to happen to her and her former boss, secretary pompeo didnt do anything. Lisa, you work at the State Department for a republican administration. What impact does this have on the state Department Today and in the future. I agree with nicole that i think pompeo w
Republican and then what happens . Yeah, and then at that point, any member can simply say they move to offer an amendment. And when they offer an amendment, they have to actually provide the next of that language to the clerk. The amendment could be read aloud before all of the members of The Committee. And then each of the members can simply say they want a chance to talk and to speak about that particular amendment. And as you said, there are 41 members of this committee. 40 are expected to attend one is not, ted lieu because of health issues. Hes not expected to be here this week. But each of those members could speak. That could take time for each individual amendment. When that amendment is voted down which we expect because republicans are expects to offer amendments, democrats are happy with these articles and dont plan to do that. Thats why this is unpredictable how this contentious day will play out, wolf. 40 members now. Ted lieu had some medical issues. We wish him a speedy
Hunter biden behind closed doors. And so now the huge irony is that as the process moves to the senate, when republicans are going to control the entire process, theyre saying even though our argument was that we were cheated and this is unfair in the house, now that we control it, we dont want witnesses and we dont want a trial. Unbelievable. Thank you so much, heidi. Let me go back to garrett on the floor. Whats happening now . That measure did not succeed . Reporter it wont succeed. Were waiting on a few more votes to be cast. Im watching a couple more tick off the board. We expect this will probably be the last of the procedural hurdles at this phase of the game. We expect the next thing to happen will be the debate on the actual rules setting the terms of debate for the Articles Of Impeachment. This will look like an actual debate when it gets started. You will see members start to hash out not just the Process Arguments that you heard from heidi, but also democrats will
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hearing day is not subject to the chair s discretion. it is a right and republicans on the judiciary committee properly commanded the exercise of that right. and yet, chairman nadler declined to allow a minority hearing day to be held before the voting of these articles. i think we can all agree that it would have been better for the institution and for the american people to allow all voices to be heard and all witnesses to be questioned before proceeding to a vote on something as this consequential. and yet the majority trampled on that right. but i suppose i should not be surprised by any of this, when the house passed res 660, the resolution setting up the official impeachment inquiry less than two weeks ago, i warned the house that the majority was setting up a closed unfair process that could only have one outcome. and today we are seeing the end result of this closed and unfair
thus, there are alternative procedures under hres 660 by which witnesses can be subpoenaed but they have not been exercised. third, there is no precedent for the use of minority days to delay committee legislative or impeachment proceedings. it is clear from the legislative history that the minority day rule is not intended to delay legislative activity. again, as the committees on the organization of the congress explicitly explained, we do not look upon this rule as an authorization for delaying tactics, unquote. the minority day rule was made part of the house rules in 1971. it was not invoked in either the nixon or clinton impeachments. matter of fact, the only precedent i am aware of in the context of impeachment took place several weeks ago in the intelligence committee. there the minority also requested a day of hearings, even though they all said witnesses participate in their proceedings. the minority ultimately did not raise a point of order. while they did offer an amendment