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
takes advantage of the system exploits things. and i think that that this is the first time we ve had something that s a blockbuster that s not going to work but it s right to call him on it. robert, is that a fair criteria to. i don t know of the walking abuse of power standard under the constitution whatever james madison might think about it, you know, seriously. with regard to the phone call, i even watched it play out today. evidence at some point does matter. as much as i hear about trying to turn what was in the face of the call a request for assistance with regard to an investigation as equivalent to a demand that was coercive, that had conditions in order to dig dirt up on a political opponent, they are not the same thing. but what it wasn t a quid pro quo. and an attempt to try to make them the same thing i would suggest to you respectfully if the object here is to garner
today is cyber monday. the stock market is again blasting off. and here are democrats want to talk about the president might though we have no evidence of it have held money back or did a quid pro quo with a foreign government. they have yet to prove the case. let me go back to joe manchin will vote with senate republicans not to convict the president based off what we know today. the split screen you ll have. donald trump watching these hearings, tweeting his replies on the one side of the screen and on the other side of the screen nato where he is supposed to be celebrating the 70th anniversary. sandra: he will hold a press conference a half hour after the hearing is underway. he will do all of it. the one thing he has lost in this process. he hasn t been able to dominate the news the way he used to. he owned every news cycle for years and hasn t as much now. he will use this trip. 98 bill clinton wanted to take a break from impeachment
say what you want about schiff. i m a fan. he ran a great hearing. kept everybody in line. nadler we ll see if he can do that. that s the republican strategy. bill: if you were to give a witness from the white house you add legitimacy. the president is taking questions now. we anticipated this heading for london for the nato anniversary. 70 years marking the alliance. you ll have a split screen on wednesday. sure. bill: in the judiciary committee in washington, d.c. while the president is holding an international press conference in london. how is that going to go? i disagree with my esteemed colleague. this process has been a disaster. what did you hear from the major witnesses? there wasn t bribery, nobody had a first-hand account of it. by and large most of the witnesses said it wasn t a quid pro quo. they didn t know about it. we ll have the next round of hearings when the president is at nato and going to dominate.
has been filled in with these details. august 12th. that was the day the whistle blower filed their complaint at its core, was that infamous call two-and-a-half weeks prior on july 25th when the president s asked president zelensky of ukraine for a favor and for investigations into the bidens in the 2016 election. later in august, the time s now reports the president was briefed by white house lawyers about the complaint. the lawyers told him they were trying to figure out whether legally they needed to give it to congress. where we now know it did end up, then there is the other argument from republicans, the president was just concerned that other countries, except for the united states, weren t contributing enough, that the u.s. was giving too much to ukraine. but according to just released testimony from mark sandy, who is the official in the office of management and budget who first signed off, it wasn t until early september that question of contributions came up. we know on sept