To have very different worlds. We certainly will. This is a moment that a lot of people have been waiting for. Well see what happens. We will have special live coverage throughout the night, of course. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Our special impeachment coverage continues right now with erin burnett out front. This is cnn breaking news. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news, just moments from now, you see the room. The House Judiciary Committee will begin debate on two articles of impeachment against donald j. Trump. This is only the fourth time in American History that a president has faced articles of impeachment and this is live what is happening in that room. Members are getting seated. This is prime time, the first time that any of these hearings have happened during this time. This is the debate and this is how they are choosing to start it. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee jerry nadler is about
he s watching golf. they aren t even taking it seriously per they know it s over but they can t back off the edge of the branch per they are just going to solid off. they keep referencing the mueller report. there is not a single reference to the mueller report because there was nothing impeachable in the speed nine report, nothing impeachable on the phone call. there is nothing except for number one, they are upset that he won the 2016 election. two, they are scared to death he s going to win the 2020 election because he s done everything promised. we get the associate trade deal and look at the opponents. you ve got a bunch of socialist competing against each other and the company has tuned him out. when you ought to go and figure out how to rebuild the party as opposed to destroy our democracy. and i am doing my nancy party for you. on the issue of democrat
can t back off the edge of the branch. right? they can t. they are just going to saw it off. they keep referencing the mueller report. there is not a single reference to the mueller report because there was nothing impeachable in the mueller report, nothing impeachable on the phone call. there is nothing except for number one, they are upset that he won the 2016 election. two, they are scared to death he s going to win the 2020 election because he s done everything promised. the economy is back on track. and he s creating more jobs. we get the associate trade deal and look at the opponents. you ve got a bunch of socialist competing against each other and the company has tuned him out. so they are free falling as a party and their answer is to impeach the president? when you ought to go and figure out how to rebuild the party as opposed to destroy our democracy. and i am doing my nancy party for you. on the issue of democrat defections, the washington post is reporting that lawmak
the hearing room to manu raju. man manu, you ve been seeing everyone come in. what do you expect? a contentious fight, they ll make the case on why the president deserves to be impeached on these two counts and the republicans, contend this process as unfair and they ll argue that the president did nothing impeachable and demand that they should have their own witness e es, as well. expect that to be from the top. they each will get a chance for five minutes to make their case to the public about why they believe the president should or should not be impeached and this is a formal consideration of those articles of impeachment. sorry, manu to interrupt you. chairman nadler has gavelled the session. pursuant to committee rule 2 any house rule 11 clause 2, the chairman may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter or adopting an
also within them reveals the pattern of behavior. so what i liked is while these two articles are quite concise, they also show room to put in the wrong behaviors of the president. were you troubled that republicans are outright avoiding the evidence and continue to argue about process? not really talking about the substance or the evidence. i think about what professor gerhart said. if these actions by a president of the united states are not impeachable, then nothing impeachable. i cannot imagine when asked directly, my republican colleagues on it this committee, do you think it is proper for as to ask a foreign country to interfere in our election? i can t imagine that their answer would be yes. so why they re deflecting, talking process, talking about