those are the ones that show up and change everything. mark sandy, an official is testifying. he s appearing under subpoena. the first week of open public hearings has now ended. where do things stand now? how likely is it that president trump will be impeached by the house and removed? cnn has the big picture on a come licated process. any effort to impeach a president must begin in the u.s. house of representatives. the constitution says so. even those such efforts are
both occurred without ukraine investigating president trump s political rival. the 18-page staff memo obtained by fox also notes president trump s deep-seated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of ukraine and u.s. tax-payer funded aid of corruption. he also notes the skips as an overall but u.s. foreign aid and the need for allies to do more. a key house democrat is also questioning the g.o.p. defense. we need to get to the facts, but i think saying something that is not true as a part of the defense is not going to be helpful. it is clear the ukrainians did no aid was being withheld. there are discussions that took place that indicate that. the intelligence committee s top republican sounds pessimistic over the overall atmosphere going into these open public hearings. my guess is it s going to be a complete circus. we are not going to get any of our witnesses. the mainstream media is going to
democratic congressman eric swalwell. he is on the house judiciary committee. good to see you, representative. first of all, what happens and i don t think anybody thinks this wouldn t pass, even though you hear some democrats might be critical of it. what happens the moment you take that vote on thursday, and you get impeachment inquiries moving forward? harris, thank you. your last segment, i want to thank you for honoring the first responders. i m a little biased, i have two little brothers working perimeter and evacuation control as police officers helping firefighters they are in the bay area. please continue to tell the story of what they are doing. it helps get people safe and ou out. harris: absolutely. the goal here is for the division and transcripts to get public, two, to make sure there is a process in place for the majority and minority to ask questions in open public hearings. three, to make sure your staff can be a part of asking questions, and four, to set the d
senator john mccain recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot. that means republican leadership now has more time to woo skeptical republicans. i m joined now by senator ron wyden, democrat of oregon. always good to see you, senator. you as well. how do you feel about this delay? does this give republicans a chance to regroup, maybe press some of those wary members to vote for it? they only need one, or is it more time for democrats to make their case against it? two points, one, we re counting on john mccain to make a quick recovery. and he s got a wonderfully supportive spouse in cindy. second, there is absolutely no reason now for the republicans not to schedule public hearings on this legislation. we ought to bring the american people into this debate. and certainly there s no excuse now for not having open public hearings. but you don t have any expectation that s going to happen, do you? i don t see how you make a logical case that for a bill of this import that you