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The house, this will be the first partisan impeachment in the history of our country. i think chairman schiff and speaker pelosi knew from the very beginning how they would vote and what they were going to try to prove. this case is really being tried to the american people. and i just think if youre going to try it to the american people, you ought to afford both sides due process. thats going to happen in the senate. >> its going to happen the same way it did with clinton. just so they know, y...

People, you ought to afford both sides due process. thats going to happen in the senate. >> its going to happen the same way it did with clinton. just so they know, you would never have that nice head of hair if youd been in the senate as long as it would take you to be part of the senate in the clinton process, but you went from land transfers to an affair in clinton. you want to talk about a partisan investigation and you want to talk about due process, it was all done by an independent counse...

Hearing that is about -- thats getting ready to begin. about a half an hour or so from now. suzanne malveaux, youre on capitol hill. going through security up on capitol hill, its -- everyone has to go through security. >> thats right. and youll see a couple of protesters behind us as well. i just got that question to george kent whether or not he felt it was a legitimate process. and he did not respond, but, you know, the big question is how do you get these key witnesses to testify, to testify...

But they definitely need to have some sound byte moments that people can remember. >> ross garber, you teach impeachment law to tulane law school. >> i do. one of the challenges we heard from manu about the speakers desire to have this be a by part zap process. >> that makes good sense politically. it makes good sense historically. it makes good sense for governing. and i think thats going to be the speakers big challenge here. when the nixon process got to this point, the vote was nearly unanim...

>> sure, wolf. well, i just threw a question to bill taylor moments ago. we just saw him pass us by behind and walk into the building. i asked him if he felt this was a legitimate exercise. he did not respond. also asked him as well what does he hope to accomplish. and that really, wolf, is going to be the key challenge here is for these hear,s to unfold and adam schiff, the chair of the intelligence committee, acknowledging for americans themselves to see this process play out before their own ...

Especially as the witnesses arrive and members arrive as well. gloria, this process, daniel goldman, the house intelligence committees director of investigations, former u.s. assistant attorney, hes going to be focusing in on these two witnesses, getting them to say said in closed door sworn eady - depositions that there was this so-called quid pro quo, that the president of the united states was using his political advantage to get dirt on potential political -- a potential political rival. >> ...

And at the same time, republicans are going to be making an argument to say, look, this is so close to an election. why not let the people decide in the election? and to insulate the president from this conduct. and i come back to something i felt for a while which is those republicans, and it seems to be a high bar in the senate who would ever vote to convict this president. might they say, look, i dont like this behavior. i dont like how he handled himself but he is bold and brash and inexperi...

Those things arent happening now, and i think this is all political, and i think its a situation where sadly the speaker lost control of her own conference. >> you have said you have not read all the depositions. >> i havent been able to. >> thats right. were supposedly going to see them before then. have you closed the door completely to approving an article of impeachment? >> you never close the door completely to anything like this, but again, we just adopted a process that every single repub...

Public opinion is everything here. do you feel as if you have two challenges? you can lay out the case in perhaps a court of law with 12 jurors. you can win your case. but there is, to me, a second bar you have to meet, which is is what he did egregious enough that he shouldnt be allowed to be on the ballot in 2020? is that a separate bar? >> well, i think that its all connected, is what i think. its i think its important that the american people get to choose for themselves but i also think its...

Your friends, i have really enjoyed your two years that youve been working on this. you keep finding things and sending it to us. its been great to watch you go through your watergate days. but it was remarkable. we just played a clip of you from october of 73. eight months later, thats nearly ten months before nixon resigns. we are at that same point, and we are expecting to have an impeachment inquiry and vote and trial and all that done in the next six to eight weeks. >> well, like everything...