appropriate determination. assuming the judiciary committee passed these two articles of impeachment whether tomorrow or friday, what day next week do you expect a full house vote? that will be a decision for the speaker. as to when it will come on the calendar on the floor. and i assume you re prepared right thousand to vote for both of these articles? yes. i mean, i ve studied this evidence carefully. i attended the deposition of the witnesses and read the intelligence report. i think there is overwhelming evidence and it is uncontested that the president of the united states abused the power of his office, betrayed the national interest to advance his own personal interest and obstructed congress s investigation of it. and it is an ongoing national security threat. and this is a crime in progress. if we don t stop this president and hold him accountable, we should have confidence that he s going to do it again. he welcomed foreign assistance in 2016. he actively sought it in
how many democrats can pelosi afford to lose. the white house is prepped. they are geared to make the case that this is going to be the most partisan impeachment that we ve seen. they look back at the clinton impeachment and they say that even some democrats voted in favor of impeaching bill clinton at that time. and that is unlikely to be the case in this impeachment. so i think democrats need to protect themselves against that argument by holding it together and we ll see if they re able to do that. i want to you listen now, pamela, to the president last night at a huge political rally in pennsylvania. you saw they re so-called articles of impeachment today. people are saying, they re not not even a crime. remember all of this, bribery and this and that. where are they? they re not even a crime. this is impeachment light. this is the lightest impeachment
some appeared to crow over the fact he s only facing two articles of impeachment and dubbing this process as we heard last night, impeachment light and he sees this inquiry as the weakest impeachment, as you know in the history books, it doesn t go down as impeachment light. it goes down as impeachment. wolf. thank you very much. and joining us david sis lienee of rhode island, a member of the jsh judiciary committe which will start debating tonight. you and your colleagues about to take up two the articles of impeachment and starting with opening statements at 7:00 p.m. eastern. what can we expect to see when all this begins? i think you should expect to see that we ll lay out in our opening statements the evidence that we ve collected during the impeachment inquiry, the president tried to drag a foreign power into our elections and using taxpayer money as leverage for military aid to
we made to address the urgent priorities in their lives, driving down health care cost and raising family incomes and taking on the corruption in washington and getting the government to work for the people again. and they expect us to honor our oath of office to protect and defend the constitution and hold this president accountable and demonstrate nobody in this country is above the law, including the president of the united states. and i think the evidence, as i said, is uncontested and overwhelming this president abu abused the power of the office at the expense of our national security and we have no choice but to move forward with articles of impeachment. congressman, we ll see what happens tonight. it is a long time in the judiciary committee and long day tomorrow. maybe spilling into friday as welcome. thanks for joining us. thank you. we ll have much more ahead on the impeachment hearing. and following a breaking story as the inspector general tells senators he stands by
sending a message to his base and relying on them not to not to actually read the articles for themselves and not to engage with the underlying evidence and to take the president s spin and talking points. he could pry to minimize this but the conduct in the articles represent one of the most serious abuses or allegations of abuse of power we have seen in the history of the american presidency. and as we move to the senate trial and that information starts to be presented in a cohesive format by the house impeachment managers, it is going to be very, very difficult for president trump to sustain this kind of counter messaging. this is a president who wanted the impeachment to take place in the senate over christmas. remember that? because he wants to get it over with so quickly. was it last christmas and he was home alone at the white house and a government shutdown and i m all alone and he s there and he wants unless he goes to mar-a-lago, but he wanted it done. why did he want