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
than laws, that is not why you ran. that is not why we are here and that s why i agree with my colleague, mr. cole, that believes in the power of the people, people before politics, that we believe and know we can do better, that we believe the speaker when she said about cooperation, we believed her when she cosaid, if you trusted them with the majority, they would be different. i guess it s only fitting you take this vote on halloween. i yield back. minority leader mccarthy on the republican side giving his rebuttal to several democrats. you may notice he went longer than several of the chairs. mccarthy and pelosi have magic minutes so they can go longer. underon the rules he spoke abou what he views as the pollicization of impeachment, about democrats running to be