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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congressman chamberlain, not real republicans, they re taking part in a partisan effort to attack people and the former president, and this isn t a fair process, so they can t abide supporting it in any way. i think they re just going to say it s an illegitimate vote to begin with and write it off. i will absolutely be stunned if anybody steps forward to support it beyond the two that are on the select committee. well, thank you for your candor, though i m not sure it s a message people want to hear. yamiche, biden s meeting with the democrats. the price of this bill is coming down, and remind the good folks watching that that won t be greeted as good news by all the democrats. that s right. the president today spent a lot of time meeting with members in his own party to try to scramble to really unite his party so he can get these infrastructure plans through. he met with house progressives as well as house moderates.
the senate. mitch mcconnell has said there will be no witnesses. what do you believe when you have a trial in the senate, should there or should there not be witnesses? it depends upon the assessment as to whether the record is complete enough. what is hurting the democrats on the senate side and there was a senator speaking on the network last night saying we need to get to the truth. excuse me, that s what the house impeachment process has been about and why we ve had hearings and why we ve had witnesses. so you shouldn t start all over and say let s now go and see if anyone else knows anything about it. if this process had played out appropriately in the house i don t think it did the house would have been willing the time, the calendar was the problem as congressman collins said. the problem was they would not go to court when they went to court they said that s it. we aren t going to take the time and effort to secure the testimony of key witnesses such
and swing voters, they ve had it with this impeachment. this is tough stuff to follow as our colleagues have said. and frankly, for voters who really don t care a lot about the intricacies of the house process, they re turned off. this is the most partisan process i think we ve ever seen. i was part of bill clinton s defense team in 1999. there was some sense that this was a bipartisan process even if people disagreed. but democrats win when they talk about the issues like climate change, healthcare, jobs, and the future. they aren t going to win the next election on this ukraine issue or on impeachment or on the character of the interaction between rudy giuliani and three ukrainian prosecutors nobody has ever heard of. bill: the rub. you go into a senate trial in
out the timeline for us. tell us what this is. we had an adjournment vote, voted down by democrats. republicans tactic to stall. now on a motion to table. explain that one. right. in the house of representatives you don t have a lot of lever to pull when you re in the minority. you can protest the process. these are what we call in congress tactics and a resolution by kevin mccarthy saying that the democrats in their impeachment inquiry violated house rules. i brought the rule book along with me here today. the house rule book and looking at rule 11 clause k which deals with how you handle things in committee. basically when kevin mccarthy is saying here is that democrats violated different sections of that rule and says we have a problem. the inquiry, the vote on impeachment and debate on impeach.