get much chance to say much on the house floor. that s why you have to have a rule to govern the parameters of debate. 283 members of the house spoke on impeachment with president clinton in 1998. they spoke over two days. here you have a six-hour rule. the republican from oklahoma in the rules committee late last night asked for 12 hours of debate. they might go with four. halfway where the republicans wanted six hours. and then later today probably this evening even though they will consider both articles of impeachment together in the debate, they will actually have distinct votes on both articles of impeachment. the obstruction of congress and abuse of power. this will probably play out here for the next 15 or 20 minutes and then if there is no more tactics then they ll get to the debate on the rule. again, that s the debate to set up the debate, julie. julie: chad pergram, thank
was it. she turned it around on him, bill. bill: we ve read a lot about extra security on the hill. just a little bit tighter in terms of security. looking for protestors. compared to the level of demonstrations that we saw last fall during the confirmation process with brett kavanaugh for the supreme court it has been a shadow of that. i notice a few more guards and provisionesque put into place last night. the chamber is open for the public to come in and watch the debate. in that respect it is not that much different. but it is slightly tighter and they re ready in case there are demonstrations. nothing to the level of what we saw last fall. bill: great information. back to you in moments. thank you, sir. here is julie. julie: john roberts at the white house. president trump tweeting earlier, john, can you believe i m being impeached today? where will he be watching the proceedings from, john? well, at the moment we believe he is still in the
that s what the democrats have been doing. taking what i view as a thin evidence record and creating a national security risk as well as an intervention. advised intervention into u.s. politics. i think both those themes are really quite farfetched. bill: andy, do you disagree with that? any time ken invokes my name is fine by me. we re getting to the same place but coming at it from different angles. i don t think he would disagree with the proposition to impeach a president, you need two things. i guess i m focused on the bottom line one, which is if you don t have an egregious offense that is so bad that the public will be moved so that the politicians will actually be moved to remove the president, then you don t have an impeachable offense. i don t question that in the
on november 20th, 2019, a letter was transmitted from the ranking minority member to chairman schiff requesting the conquerens of the chair to issue certain subpoenas. on november 20th, 2019, after excusing the witnesses at an open hearing and without prior notice to the republicans on the committee, chairman schiff announced that the committee had a business matter to take up and convened an impromptu business meeting to consider the ranking minority members november 20th request concerning certain subpoenas. on november 20, 2019, chairman schiff violated clause 2g3 of rule 11 of the rules of the house of representatives which states the chair of a committee shall announce the date, place and subject matter of a committee meeting which may not commence earlier than the third calendar day on which members have notice there of. the clerk shall suspend. house will come to order.