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
people, and thea people have bv stymied in other parts of the political erprocess, and this w created by the founders to allow them anotherto avenue to have their voices heard. eagle-eyed viewers will note, when you look at the screen here, weave just had the gaveling of the end of this firsten part of debate. we re moving towards, as reported, this t series of vote. the first vote willof be a bit a congressional throat clearing. it will not be the vote on the actual impeachment resolution. within minutesmp after that, we expect them to turn to this event, barrett, which is the vote on the actual rules for the potential impeachment. rules matter. it s actually this is not something that s just procedural and we should write it off. the rules for this procedure could not be more important, not only for the substance, but also to reassure the public that what they are seeing here is a fair process, that there is due process, that the president and