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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here. one i want to ask unanimous consent without objection to insert into the record october 23rd new york times article ukraine knew of aid freeze by early august undermining trump defense. i also want to make a couple of comments about minority day witness issue. i did send a letter to my colleagues on the rules committee. we made it part of the record. mr. nad her s confirmed he would work with the minority to schedule their hearing day on constitutional grounds of impeachment. not withstanding the fact when? we did a lot of history, looked at the history of this this whole rule and it was designed to ensure that minority was not shut out of witnesses, they were not completely shut out of hearings as has occurred in the past. the minority did get a witness. i try not to watch the judiciary proceedings as much as i could but i did see him.
recess and come back at the beginning of the last vote, where we will turn to mr. hastings. the rules committee stands in recess. all right. we ve been watching the house rules committee, i think this might be the first time i ve said this on tv, rules committee meekt to mark up the impeachment resolution and establish the rules that will govern the upcoming floor debate expected to take place tomorrow. in less than 24 hours, the house of representatives will vote on articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the resolution is expected to pass along party lines which would mark only the third time in u.s. history that a president is impeached. joining us msnbc correspondent garrett haake from capitol hill. washington post political reporter eugene scott and former counsel to the house judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment process, michael
i ll try to bring this to a conclusion. i know there will be a difference of opinion here. you certainly both can respond. contrary to my claims, to my friend s claims across the aisle, mr. collins, do you think the democratic majority denied the administration a meaningful opportunity to participate in this proceeding? they isn t effectively, they did. october 30th the rules committee held our jurisdiction markup on h-6 60 and many concerns from our side of the d dias. republican members were assured, quote, the president has been afforded all kinds of rights before the judiciary committee. we ve heard that today. this would be an open and transparent process. despite the fact that we received the text of the resolution, a mere 24 hours earlier, did not have a single