president s son is expected to show up in about 30 minutes for a deposition behind closed doors. now at the same time, republicans today around noon are expected to move closer toward opening an inquiry on impeachment into his father, the president. we ll find out together what we get. what is it, dana? it s wednesday. dana: i wasn t sure what the question is. bill: you lose track this time of year. dana: somebody walked through and said they thought it was thursday. a busy time of year and busy time on the hill. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. a pivotal day for hunter and joe biden. speaker johnson said his party is going where the evidence leads. the white house has gone carefully as the constitution requires of us, it is a very serious matter. right now they aren t turning over documents or key witnesses and we have to defend our subpoenas in court. to do that you need and impeachment inquiry vote from the full house. dana: byron donalds sits on a
mcconnell is likely to invoke the called nuclear option to break the democrats filibuster. i want to take you live to capitol hill where kasie hunt is standing by and hopefully she hasn t been there 15 straight hours. where does the nomination stand right now? reporter: thankfully i have not been here 15 hours. you are right, jeff merkley is still on the senate floor. he ll have to get off the floor about 9:30 because that s when they re set to adjourn and come back into session for today seeing as how he kept everybody up all night. this represents last-ditch efforts on the parts of the democrats to try and slow this down. you also saw reports overnight of potential plagiarism. politico reporting that there were passages of some of the legal works that judge gorsuch did very early in his career that appeared to be lifted from other sources. those defending gorsuch saying it s a little bit different in the legal realm and he didn t lift ideas from people so they say it s not too muc