Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps out the blueprint and rules of the road
for what democrats say is the next public phase in this impeachment probe. Now many are expecting a Party Line Vote today. Lawmakers will vote on these ground rules which includes moving the closed door depositions of all of these key witnesses into public hearings. Weve seen squabbling over this process. Were expecting in our special coverage to hear from Spe
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the fourth of course was the shooter, whether they were military or civilian, we don t know yet. reporter: correct. thank you, i know you ll be back to us with any updates, thanks so much for starting us off. meanwhile, back on capitol hill, it will be a working weeding for house democrats drafting articles of impeachment against a tough deadline set by speaker pelosi, still not decided, whether to include an obstruction of justice charge stemming from the mueller report or confine the charges to the president s pressure against ukraine allegedly for personal political benefit which would be abuse of power and also obstruction of congress for refusing to let top officials testify or turn over documents. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler meanwhile gave the white house until 5:00 tonight eastern time to decide whether they will offer a defense with a floor vote possible before the christmas break. joining me now on all of this, nbc s kristen welker at the white house. msnbc s g
today as fairly technical but important to understand how the political machinations here worked within the actual federal bureaucracy here. how things actually get done in washington. we ll learn more when his full transcript is released. unlike so many of these other witnesses, he did not release any kind of opening statement. we re told he essentially sat down and told members of congress, how can i help? all right. msnbc s garrett haake on capitol hill for us with the wreakibrea news today. garrett, thank you so much for that. let s go to our panel now. andrew, political congressional report. david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. chris alllou, former assistant president obama. andrew, you were in many of those pieces of video. we saw you in the background there in the hearing room. being able to listen to what was said. before we get to that and what has happened, let s start with the transcripts. and what we re learning and garrett did a great job of sort of l
in our country to pay attention too how we protect and defend e constitution of the united states. wetu will do so in a way that brings people together, that is healing, rather than dividing. tomorrow is november 1st. we re one year away from an election. why do you not trust the people? why do you not allow the people to have a voice? president trump watching and tweeting hismp frustration from the white house, tweeting this morning as house republicans were presenting his public defense. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, msnbc s garrett haake on capitol hill, msnbc political analyst phil rucker, white house bureau chief at the washington post, and msnbc contributor yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for the pbs news hour, and msnbc security analyst matt miller.