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
the united states. history will record what the house voted today, what the speaker of the house said, how the house leads this inquiry. and ultimately, if it does lead to impeachment, how the senate decides this president s fate. it s so there s the political, but also the real. there s also the constitutional. keep that in mind. let me say a little bit about the constitutional part. i thought what was really interesting is wewh have representative mccarthyin layin out all the talking points we re going to see over and over again. why are we doing this now? this is a way to get around thea election? why don t we let the political process play itself out. without recognizing, if the politicaliz process has been tainted by foreignca interventi, the people will not be heard. i think the one thing democrats have to press on this is this is not a process for the president, not a process for congress. this is a process for the
they can see how each of these witnesses plays into the bigger sto story, the role they ve played, i don t know we ve been able to see it in a comprehensive manner and that s part of the next phase. another one of our washington experts, heidi prisbola working her sources through the news circle heading into this morning and heidi, what are you hearing from your sources and who are the republicans to watch as pelosi drives this out to the floor, that puts pressure on those who have to decide where they stand. i am in touch with a number of my house leadership sources on and off of that floor this morning, and what we are witnessing here is a democratic party that is really closing ranks around their leader and around this process, even some of the most endangered democrats are expected to vote for this, spare a few. the real question in their minds at this moment is whether they
chairs simply for the impeachment of president trump. her finished with a halloween flourish. i kind of feel sorry for these guys in a way. what have you got? it was process first. well, nowce there s going to be very open process. it s going to be frankly giving the president more due process than d previous impeachment proceedings. then they saiden hearsay. that s gone. we have first-person accounts. they try to say it s a leftist conspiracy. yeah, right. lieutenant colonel, veteran, deck ratednt in the army who carries shrapnel in his body from iraq, that guy is doing the left wing bidding. they havele tried to keep findi something to avoid defending the president based on the facts. mccarthy today is doing the same thing.s he s trying tome find some way distract from the facts that are sost powerful. we know that the president tried