Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
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conway. garrett, explain to us what has been going on in that committee room today. officially the rules committee is debating the rules by which the house impeachment will go forward on the floor, how long, whether or not there will be amendments loud. you re seeing some of a dress rehearsal for the floor debate with two of the most outspoken members who have been involved in the impeachment process, pushing for the articles or key fending the president against them, doug collins as the ranking member defending the president pushing back moving this to the floor and a late substitution, jamie raskin, young congressman from maryland, replacing jerry nad her the judiciary committee chairman had to return to new york with a family emergency. expect to see more throughout the afternoon as these two go back and forth. something of a colloqu colloquyg articles of impeachment. more and more members whose
prison. even more so because pelosi as speaker is third in line to the presidency, and she is the nation s top elected democrat. speaker pelosi is known to choose her words quite carefully. this escalation comes as she tries to hold back calls for an immediate impeachment inquiry, and as the pressure comes from not just democratic back benchers but from members of her own leadership team. jerry nad slaer longtime pelosi loyalist but listen to nadler who is chairman of the committee who would be responsible for any impeachment proceeding. are you on the same page as the speaker, nancy pelosi, what it comes to impeachment? as i said, we are launching an inquiry now, and whether we ll launch an impeachment inquiry, it may come to that. it may come to that. when that decision has to be made, it will be made not by any one individual. it will probably be made by the court because certainly nancy will the largest single voice in
post, the appointment of jerry nad exempl nadler is a clear sign of the left s attempts to impeach the president. still with us, radio talk show host, steve levy, doug schoen and deneen borelli. let s go to doug schoen. what is the strategy here? what is the plan? i mean, maxine waters by the way, has a $4.5 million mansion on a $450,000 claimed income. i needed to get that in. what are they selling to their base? they re selling resist. i m a centrist democrat. they recognize they can keep everybody together with one simple principle, resistance and attack donald trump. i would have put forward an alternative tax plan. they didn t do that. the republicans weren t that eager to compromise.