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
rights in the Intelligence Commi
beginning of the last vote where we will then turn to mr. hastings. the rules committee stands in recess. and you have been watching something we don t usually get to see, but a very important part of the legislative process inside the house of representatives. you ve been watching the house rules committee and we obviously have been watching it because it s a very important piece of legislation, it s not legislation at all. it s two articles of impeachment and what this committee does is set the parameters of debate of anything that comes to the house floor. so they are debating the debate. that s basically what you saw right there with a lot of the arguments that we ve heard for and against the impeachment of the president of the united states for the past couple of weeks as we ve seen the process
beginning of the last vote where we will then turn to mr. hastings, the rules committee stands in recess. harris: all right. we have been watching the rules committee of the house talk about the rules. they are debating the rules for the debate and there will be several hours of debate tomorrow along with that being full house vote on impeachment. for today, they fireworks that we may be didn t anticipate about a meeting about rules were on full display. you saw the chairman of the rules committee, congressman jim mcgovern of massachusetts, he was wrapping things up. for a period of time, a lengthy period of time, the ranking member, the republican on the committee, oklahoma s tom cole and they went back and forth. i want to bring in former acting attorney general under president trump, matt whitaker. you and i were on outnumbered yesterday and said to be on
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