7 00 which means we have the great music starting to play at 7 00. But you still continue to get some special debate preview coverage from alary mel ber, the beat starts right now. Good evening, ari. Good evening, chuck. Well be watching. Big night for you and for the country. I am ari melber here live this evening from miami. Thrilled to be with you. We with three hours away from the first democratic debate of 2020 where the candidates face off on their vision,ed border crisis and the return of Robert Miller as House Democrats announce he will publicly testify before congress july 17th. This reignites the partys clash over obstruction and whether to open an Impeachment Probe. Tonight voters are likely to see the democrats internal battles over this issue because while nancy pelosi and most of the house caucus do not back impeachment, of the ten candidates debating tonight, seven do back impeachment hearings. Many see the push from muellers
public testimony as the last effort to make t
characterized last night as an you be friendly subpoena but also what provides i think pause to some democrats what you re going to get from him. take a look. i hope and expect this to be the own time that i will speak to you in in manner. we chose those words kerr there and work speaks for itself. and the report is my testimony. does that give democrats some pause for what they re going to get out of this hearing? well, i think it would be interesting if he actually got up there and opened up his entire report and just started reading from and said why don t you go to section 2, page blah, blah, blah. i think it doesn t really matter because having him in his own voice, whether he is reading verbatim what he already wrote or having a new conversation explaining what he wrote is what the american people need to see. they need to understand methodically what s going through his mind in a way that themselves reading it is never going to give us the full energy
your teenage son who comes in at bhid night and you ask him how the evening went. said it s fine, dad, i had a little fender-bender and everything s fine. and you go out in the morning and the fender s gone. what someone tells you and what you see and hear is a big difference. for the first time, the differences are cleared out and you get to hear unobstructed what he thought, what he knows, how he perceived it and that threatens the president s narrative and what you re going to see while the president and fox and others are already starting to it out it, there s nothing here. when does this end, well, yeah. it doesn t end on the 17th. it actually begins because now the american people will be tuning in and listening and hearing for the first time. that goes to the final thing. when you look at tonight s debate, big picture, should your stance on impeaching donald trump and obstruction be a litmus test for the democratic party at this point given how
administration and in a tight rope for democrats to walk especially when they see the polling numbers that people are most upset about the economy and affordability and know you how to prioritize an issue like this. the democratic s first debate is here in florida, what does that say. florida is must win for republicans. democrats have a pathway to victory that does not run through florida. but if you want to win florida as a democrat, you need to make sure you are winning the latino vote in florida. there s no one latino voter in florida. there are a lot of people directly impacted by immigration, immigration enforcement, people who live in communities affected by it see it as an attack on community at large. there are venezuelans for whom venezuela is a major issue. puerto ricans for whom the recovery is a major issue. there s no one silver bullet message that breaks through to all. as you re both speaking, viewers may see something you don t see something behind you,
strongly people feel about the way the president has led and subverted the rule of law? is there consequence for that or to paraphrase, you remember debrat great female rapper talking about things being so funktified. there s a concern the democratic primary has become so funktified they need to move beyond and show a vision on that. my brother who is running for president said he wants to the start an impeachment inquiry. i don t know it should be a litmus test. even democrats have different opinions on that. democrats in congress have different opinions on it. but it is interesting to be able to question tonight the candidates about what it would mean to start an impeachment inquiry and also whether they believe it means upholding the rule of law and protecting our democracy. congressman, thank you for being here. as i say all you surrogates and all candidates good luck.