hearing sooner than we think. like with rick perry it s important to know we don t know if many of these witnesses will actually appear for their closed door depositions. if precedent holds most of them will, but nothing is guaranteed with this administration. last night intelligence committee chairman adam schiff said the committees will start releasing the transcripts of all these closed door depositions, depositions from diplomats, military advisers and foreign policy experts that have yielded blockbuster evidence of a quid pro quo. one of the aspects of the resolution that we passed today authorizes me to begin releasing transcripts. and i would expect that process will begin as early as next week. now, as i mentioned later this month house democrats plan to take the impeachment investigation public. but even before the public hearings take place it seems like the investigation has already started putting a dent in president trump s poll numbers among republicans.
certain story and changes his story later, there is some suggestion that there is a lack of truth there. but i think that impeachment unlike criminal prosecution is ultimately a political process. and so if he can win in the court of public opinion he may be able to win in the impeachment battle, as well. so i think that s the game he s playing. he s good at it, and i m sure he ll continue to try to distract people from the real facts. barbara mcquade, thank you. congressman ro khanna and ben rhode. coming up, one republican congressman head butting a camera today instead of talking about trump s behavior. he said the call he said the call is off to get an answer. we re going to tell you what we found out after the break. and later a big break after the 2020 front. who broke through amid the breaking news tonight that beto o rourke has ended his quest for the white house.
you hide things when you worry that there s a problem there. and so the mere fact he s storing it in this special safe and that he is asking vindman not to speak about it suggests he knows there s something problematic about it. i don t know if you ever experienced things like this, but how would this have been handled? how should this have been handled? vindman heard something that was a concern to him and it sounds like as a military man he had a sense of process about him, he went to the nsc s lawyer, probably the right thing to do. well, yeah. the nsc lawyer, though, used to be there not to facilitate crimes but to make sure we were acting in an ethical way. what is so extraordinary about this to me is i knew that system. that system was reserved for very sensitive matters, covert operations at the united states. things that dealt with sensitive human intelligence sources for instance. you don t put things on that server just because they re embarrassing. and you certainly don
respect in many respects really become sycophants to this president, they cower in fear of losing power because of him. instead of arguing the substance, because they can t, you can t listen to the evidence and think anything other than that this president is guilty as sin, what they do instead iss ig a is argue process. now they re saying, it s perfectly okay that he withheld military assistance that we approved in law to get a foreign country to investigate his political opponents. it s perfectly okay that we re drawing direct lines with a quid pro quo between president trump and president zelensky with the president trying to get ukraine to interfere in the presidential election in 2020. it is ripe for an impeachment inquiry. and when the american public
does any of this matter in the end? it could. you know, anything he says, anything he tweets are admissions that can be used against him later. if he locks himself into a certain story and changes his story later, there is some suggestion there is a lack of truth there. but i think that impeachment unlike criminal prosecution is ultimately a political process. and so if he can win in the court of public opinion he may be able to win in the impeachment battle as well. so i think that s the game he s playing. he s good at it, and i m sure he ll continue to try to distract people from the real facts. barbara mcquade, thank you, congressman ro khana and ben rhode. one republican congressman head butting a camera today instead of talking about trump s behavior. we re going to tell you what we