To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. What you see on your veen is a countdown that will result in proceeding to thatsu vote. So the current count you see on your screen has not yet arrived under the house procedure on the phone. What i can tell you, in a matter of moments when you sigh this count run down,u within the ne nine minutes, we expect the house to, proceed then to the
actual vote on the Impeachment Resolution and trules. We also are told in a departure
do we, in fact, care that the president of the united states violated, t attempted to violat the sovereignty of our national elections. i think that s for all the nuances, for all the niceties, for all the procedural points we spend a lot of time on, that is theon fundamental question confronting the fucountry. a 48-48 country with a few folks on the nerve s edge in betweene these two tribes, wha will we decide is acceptable behaviorac from the president o the united states. inor many ways, far more so tha the bill clinton example, more like the richard nixon example, more like the johnson example, it will tellhn us a great deal about who we actually are right now. what is they ar nature of th allegations, jon, tell us about the j unpredictable part of washington, that sixbl months a no one thought we would be here
there s an objection. is heard. t the united states house of representatives, 11:29 a.m. on the east.m coast, has passed th resolution providing for the rules for the impeachment of president donald trump. this is the first time the full house has held any floor vote whatsoever on impeachment. the party line vote provides a preview, and we hear this from both sides, of what is coming. democrats completely united, moving forward on impeachment on a way they were not united even within the past few months. republicans united against the balance of power in the house standsow with speaker pelosi an the democrats. that s a preview of what could be in short order in the coming weeks a vote on the actual impeachment of donald trump. we re going to keep an eye here on this house floor. but i want to bring in our panel that s been assembled precisely for this reason. senator mccaskill, you ve been walking us through how this works. we had thelk t party line vote
thety substance. what does it mean right now, thh congress closer to impeaching donald trump? i think now it s a timetable issue. how soon will the public hearings begin. i m told by my friends on the hill they anticipate public hearings beginning the middle of november. i think they will probably we already can kind of guess who the witness list is going to be. the witness list will be trump appointees like ambassador taylor who was brought into the state department by donald trump.de lieutenant colonel vindman who obviously is not c somebody whos onwh anybody s fund-raising lis or f is a political person in a way. volker, sondland. i think you ll see that list and beginnd to see those hearings, e beginning of november. i anticipate those hearings will complete by probably the middle of lydecember, and it wouldn t surprise me if there are articles of impeachment that