To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. What you see on your veen is a countdown that will result in proceeding to thatsu vote. So the current count you see on your screen has not yet arrived under the house procedure on the phone. What i can tell you, in a matter of moments when you sigh this count run down,u within the ne nine minutes, we expect the house to, proceed then to the
actual vote on the Impeachment Resolution and trules. We also are told in a departure
the bombastic tweets, along with the complaints about process. along with whatever sort of obstructionist parliamentary things the house can do about process in the house itself. what does it all get you in the end is the question when the substance is there? melissa, i want to reset again here again, at 11:15 on the east coast. the house has finished the allotted time andni is still tabulating, as the senator is explaining, some procrastinators who have come to the house floor. the 227-187, those have been be rising, which gets us closer to the actual vote. that gets use back, professor,o whatto is proverbially known in the constitution as the big enchilada. i wonder if you can set the table for folks, what does it mean that the houselk is about set up the blueprint for the potential impeachment of donald trump?
often what happens is it is the province of history to go back and find these stories that were below theto surface. what s happeninge. now in this sped-up world is that we find it out far more quickly. we re on a kind of warp speed for revelations. x number of weeks ago, ukraine was not top of mind at all. it shows us that, a, we have the single most self ave. vowedly unconventional president in presidential rehistory. he sen knocked down many, many the guard rails that have kept the republic going. so they re flattened. the question now we have to answer is n do we care about the guardrails. do we care and how does the public assess t something that today out of the house was a party line vote, but when the evidence piles up, might move other people. a one-way or the other. if it s going to be a fair process, it s going to have to
meeting with a number of these moderate republicans that they are deeply troubled by the president s behavior. but theypr view this vote todays largely a procedural vote, and that many of their objections, just like their leadership has been voicing, have been along the process lines. to garrett s point, many republicans felt like if they were going to dissent, this is not the vote they are going to dissent on.to we need to keep that in mind as we look at the vote totals. this is not comparable to previous initial votes on impeachment in that sense. i also want to correct for the record, ari, since this is a moment for history, and fact check some things that leader mccarthy said about this being un-democratic, because this vote hasn t taken place until 37 days into the process. do you know why that is? number one, this vote is not required under the constitution. there s nothing in the
second advote, the key vote of e day takes place. ida want to point back to kevin mcincarthy, the republican lead in theth house who just finishe his remarks. he made a couple of political points that i think you can expect to heart a lot more, particularly as the process changes here and the process arguments having been used by republicans up to this point become less valid. first is ais circular argument, but you ll hear it a lot. that this cannot go forward if it s not a bipartisan impeachment. he will b be calling back to nay pelosi s party line, essentia y essentially, for the last year and a half. the impeachment has to be done on a bipartisan basis. pelosi would talk about that a lot as a means to forestall impeachment on earlier issues brought forward in this administration. but republicans, by whipping veryan aggressively to keep the membership in line can prevent this from becoming bipartisan. inmi fact, the only republican that s come outt, in favor of impeachment so far, j