senate for the trial, well, it turns out it s members of congress, its the impeachment managers from the house, the people who oversaw the process of bringing articles of impeachment against the federal official who oversaw the process of them getting impeached in the house on the basis of those articles. the impeachment managers from the house, the actual members of congress come over to the senate and they act as the prosecutors in the impeachment trial. so this is from george porteous impeachment trial in the senate. watch who judge porteous defense lawyer is here and watch who the prosecutor is who s leading the case against him. now it s true the house has portrayed judge porteous, frankly, is something of a moocher. let me ask you, did you ever think that you would be sitting here on the flor of the senate trying to decide whether that s
shadow foreign policy, why it is so important that we allow our professional diplomats, people like marie yovanovitch, people like ambassador taylor, people like georgie kent and other nams to represent our country. these are the professionals. we become familiar with these names yovanovitch, kent, flor, b taylor, but they are the tip of the iceberg. there are tens of thousands of them in the state department, in the national security staff, the intelligence community, in the department of defense, individuals sworn an oath to defend the constitution of the united states. the key difference between those individuals and individuals like rudy giuliani is that oath. those individuals we ve seen testify, defend and protect the united states, everyone else is in this case defending and protecting the interest of one man, and that s donald trump. as ambassador yovanovitch said, they put their lives on the line here, the very individuals you talked about, and that is definitely one of th
silenced, and they re never heard from today. today was a small part in changing that, and it was an honor to work with those individuals and hear from some of the candidates. that does it for us, the beat live from philadelphia tonight. i ll be back tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. don t go anywhere. hardball with chris matthews is up next. crashing toward impeachment. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. tonight, two gate crashing steps toward the impeachment of donald trump. first, speaker nancy pelosi announced today that the house of representatives will hold its virs vote on impeachment. a vote that formalized the heightening inquiry that is now entering its second month. quote, we will bring a resolution to the flor. speaker pelosi wrote ing a letter that cub firmed the ongoing existing investigation
i asked chairman schiff about this last night, and he wouldn t commit to any punitive measures ahead of time, but this is just a reflection of sort of a seismic shift we have seen in the last few days over the house democratic caucus. they have really unified behind this ukraine scandal in terms of their outrage. we saw the number, of course, of lawmakers supporting an impeachment inquiry jump to i believe it s around 219 right now, which is a majority of the house. you only need 218 votes to impeach a president on the flor. so it really is reaching a really serious situation here, and speaker pelosi obviously jump-started that with her pronouncement yesterday. we mentioned a minute ago that chris stewart, a member of the house intelligence committee, said the whistleblower s complaint had been declassified. nbc news has now confirmed that. nbc news has confirmed the whistleblower s complaint has been declassified, also with minimal redactions. that s what nbc news is now reporting
pulled into the race in 2020. what i would say to those people, what kind of standing are we going to have in america when you see everything that s going on and you can look at it analytically and objectively as a statesperson. you re going to say i whistled past president trump s graveyard. i think there s going to be a lot of folks in the republican party that once the trump time ends are going to distance themselves. i didn t want to get bullied by him. he bullied anthony scaramucci s wife on twitter because he s a low life. i m now waiting here until 2024, and now i have standing to be your president? how are you going to pull that one off? you got to be fearless, anderson. you got to tell people the truth so that we can fix the problem right now because it s a national and international crisis that could happen if we don t fix it. anthony scaramucci, thank you. appreciate it. good to be here. democrats on the senate flor this evening making pleas for gun control legisla