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
operating with a pretty healthy margin here, and you re not seeing really any party crossover beyond the two democratsso voting with republicans who wevo suggested earlier. this speaks to the partisanug nature of s this, and i think bh parties will use these vote totals asot talking points here democrats voting to what will be a strong majority here, keeping all their members home to vote inmb favor. republicans will turn right around and say thisan is a partisan exercise, that there were no erepublicans, at leastt appears, with still three not voting, to cross over and support democrats on this issue. so in their partisan lanes going forward, and as i said earlier, no one is making on this vote -s no one is making it in the way that it needs to be done, the argument towards patriotism, country over party and so forth. it sh. very easy for republican membersor in particular to shru that off given that this is a procedural vote. there s not a lot of political upside spending the next mo