hearings scheduled on the same day as nato. congressman doug collins writing to ensure fairness and restore integrity to the ongoing impeachment process, i request an expanded panel and balanced composition of am demmic witnesses to opine on the subject matter at issue during the hearing. setting up a senate trial on trump s removal early in the new year. kyle, let me start with you. the pa ton is being passed here. walk us through what is going to unfold the next few days. sure. so we don t know a ton yet. except we get this first hearing on wednesday, which will feature a panel of experts on the constitution to talking about did what the president did regarding ukraine meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors that warrant impeachment. so it s not going to necessarily be gripping television, but it
i want to gauge how they regard the seriousness of this. to ensure fairness and restore integrity, the word restore indicating it s a process that can be restored. they are acknowledging that in a way they weren t in the course of the intelligence committee hearings. now that we have reached this stage, are you getting any sense that they are dealing with this, thinking about this in a different way a than they were two, three weeks ago? the republicans are reckoning with it. if they are reckoning with it, they are usually doing so private live, not publicly. look at congressman collins of georgia, a trump ally, ally of the president. he is in line to be appointed to for senator isaacson. he is angling to be in the president s good favor. you have kevin mccarthy to mitch mcconnell, who is a close relationship with the president on confirmation of judges and other administration appointees. they have all bought the ticket. they re taking the ride with president trump.
hopeful we won t necessarily see a party line vote coming out of the house intel committee as they re handing it off to chairman nadler and the judiciary committee. i fear that we probably will see a party line vote. i do hope people will take a moment to reflect on each vote they cast and think about what kind of a government we want moving forward and do we want to be able to self police our government officials when they engage in what can only be described as misconduct. katie, to you, from what we ve seen and read from the intelligence committee hearings, do you think they have enough solid everyday for this report? i think they have beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt. but, okay, there is no applicable standard that has to be done when it comes to this process. i think this was a really crucial part of the procedure. we re really focusing heavily on how that occurs and really the distillation of several
lastly to you. i read from that letter at the top of the show from doug collins playing nice in that letter. number one, be careful what you wish for. he does not want adam schiff in that room. there is nobody more effective than adam schiff in making the case against the president. and i think we have learned that in the intelligence committee hearings. number two, never confuse this political process with a jury trial. this is about theater. all they need to do is keep a certain percentage of the american public indignant that donald trump is being treated unfairly and they will flip
impeachment inquiry and after a long holiday weekend, congress is getting ready for what s shaping up to be another busy week in its investigation. overnight, the house intelligence committee announcing it will vote tuesday on chairman adam schiff s impeachment report, which will make the case for the removal of president trump. committee members will be able to see a draft of that report as soon as mon. after tuesday s vote, the impeachment spotlight turns to the committee scheduling its hearing on wednesday. chairman jerry nadler, giving him two deadlines to participate in these hearings. he has until tonight to decide whether he has a lawyer to wait until friday to see if he wants to call his own witness, all this including how democrats have no intention of slowing down the pace of their investigation. the washington post reporting, tuesday s meeting keeps the house on a trajectory to possibly approve articles of