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>> what are the pros and cons for democrats when it comes to holding that vote? >> its a repeat distraction tactic by donald trump. im old enough to remember what happened when republicans had control of the house of representatives. and how they ran the committee process. and some of the things they did while they were in power. so we have to ignore it. look, pelosi, clyburn have done a magnificent job of being methodical in how we deal with this. highlighting the corruption that continues to o...

Better understand. >> and mimi, one of the things about these congressional hearings is its extremely hard to anticipate the kind of interference that the republicans launch, because they are violating every norm of committee process that existed in the institution and so when im watching this, i dont have suggestions for chairman nadler about heres how to fight these guys, because ive never seen any conduct like this before in these hearings. and what they dont have are the rules that you have ...

Colleagues, we have bonded in the last few months over this, and we work very hard to be prepared and youre right, the obstruction from the republican colleagues of ours and from the witnesses makes it very hard but i think this new style of having a cleanup at the end by a skilled litigator like mr. berke will help the american people understand >> and mimi, one of the things about these congressional hearings is its extremely hard to anticipate the kind of interference that the republicans lau...

Concentrated cross examination by a lawyer hired by the committee to question witnesses in the impeachment investigation. the republicans on the committee were determined to make a mockery of the committee process from the start we have never seen a more childish and abusive use of committee process and committee rules than what the republicans on the house judiciary committee did today. this was the low point in the history of house hearings procedurally the republicans made repeated motions to...

By which i mean the reviews written about four, four and a half hours into the five-and-a-half-hour hearing, then you would think the hearing was a mess "the daily beast" headline at 5:55 p.m. said, corey lewandowskis hearing quickly dissolves into a mess. a minute later, literally a minute after that was filed, everything changed there was a half hour left in that hearing when everything changed, and corwin lewandowski cha changed. corwin lewandowski ran out of ways of avoiding questions when h...

Committee thinking that maybe ms. ford experienced something, but it had nothing to do with brett kavanaugh. that does seem to undermine what we all believed was a legitimate traumatic experience in her life. we will just let the process play out. clearly, a misrepresentation before a senate committee is a very serious offense. hopefully we can get past that. >> harris: yeah. do you want the doj -- do you think they should dig into this and see what happened? >> i think its worth checking off th...

Explosion of social media, the continued advancement of fox news and the cable news ecosystem and how that played into the information or misinformation in some cases that voters were receiving. obviously, the tea party wave and the ascent of trump. much of that was intertwined with fox news consuming an ever growing share of the sort of 45-plus white conservative viewing demographic that had once been a reliable demographic for the evening newscast or daily newspapers. the decline in those inst...

Against that. what do you think that should tell the american people right now about where the democratic party actually stands on this because its just quite a divide. >> well, its not much of a divide at all. those of us who voted not to table are essentially saying we have a process in place in the judiciary committee on all impeachment resolutions. and there could be more because the president commits impeachable acts all the time. >> but the chairman of your committee voted against it oppos...

>> i voted to put it aside for now. i am for impeachment, but i dont think we should bring it right to the floor, steve. this is a big deal, and it needs to go through the committee process. i understand that emotions run high, but the reality of it is if were going to do something this big, it needs to go through the proper channels and it needs to go through the committee process. thats why i voted to table it. >> so you say you do support impeachment. what made this resolution, besides the fa...

Its not enough to sustain a conviction and we dont want to lead to a situation where we begin a proceeding, but he ends up claiming total exoneration, which would be in my opinion disastrous. rather, we should now methodically go through the committee process and continue with the investigations. for instance, one specific thing that were doing on the oversight committee and the intelligence committee is going after the financial documents where i believe theres evidence that we have to gather a...