Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
recess and come back at the beginning of the last vote, where we will turn to mr. hastings. the rules committee stands in recess. all right. we ve been watching the house rules committee, i think this might be the first time i ve said this on tv, rules committee meekt to mark up the impeachment resolution and establish the rules that will govern the upcoming floor debate expected to take place tomorrow. in less than 24 hours, the house of representatives will vote on articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the resolution is expected to pass along party lines which would mark only the third time in u.s. history that a president is impeached. joining us msnbc correspondent garrett haake from capitol hill. washington post political reporter eugene scott and former counsel to the house judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment process, michael