Fact Finding Part News Today

And conservatives dont want to be around each other and so they have to spread out, you may not see this from like the ivory towers of your law school, but it makes the actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. Let me also suggest that when you invoke the president s sons name here. When you try to make a little joke out of referencing trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like you...

To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules ...

>> i think everyone seems to think all of this is outlined in the constitution. it is not. the rules of how it works, witnesses called, how it is treated, is a senate agreement that set up just within the senate. is it possible? sure. i think it is very unlikely that democrats would agree to hunter biden or the whistle-blower, given whats happened in the house. >> 100% unlikely. >> theres a lot of water under that bridge. i dont think it will be a tit for tat trade off. my guess, mcconnell menti...

100 to 0. thats not going to happen this time. they agreed on the rules by the way, and afterwards they decided about witnesses. thats not the case this time. so schumer isnt going to get everything he wants. i think he probably knows it. will we get any witnesses at all? we dont know the answer to that. by the way, we dont know whether they say okay, you have to show up, what they would do. would they show up? would john bolton show up? could he plead the fifth? he has a court case pending abou...

Committee. nobody has said that there is any sort of chink in the case laid out by the witnesses or even the case in the intel report last night. you were on air for hours like a news bombshell. is there any consternation that on the facts there is no defense for this president? >> reporter: well, look. republicans have continued to hit a couple of points on this. you heard it from some of their members here today that only gordon sondland of all the witnesses who were called during the fact-fin...

Now. >> what do you see? >> there were complaints from republicans. and there was a ghost of a point. the intelligence committee doing the fact-finding part of this was a little different than how it has been handled in the past. given that it is being passed from intel to the judiciary committee, what do you view as your committees rule? >> were going to look at what the founders men by having impeachment in the constitution. we know the electoral college meets every four years. why did they de...

Unfold. but here the pace of testimony was so quick, the drop of news every day of expands detail was so fast that the president literally couldnt keep up. and i think thats one of the smart parts of the process in front of the house intelligence committee is that speed of process. >> yeah, you mentioned he couldnt keep up. a lot of us in news rooms and those of you who report with us were just amazed, maya, when the president was literally at the un. so, we know from what he was doing that day,...

Is possible, as a government official, the agency, working for, in this case, the white house does have a right to control social media, but it is also not difficult to just set up a new account on twitter, so it is funny that he sent out four or five messages about the logistics and technical aspects of returning to twitter, but again, he didnt get into any of the substance of the ukraine situation, which is what people really care about. >> and lets move to the impeachment inquiry. because her...

Constitution that says that they needed to hold this vote. and also, the part about this being closed, behind closed doors, it is the republicans themselves who allowed this to happen, because the republicans changed the rules in the last congress, in the 116th congress, to allow the democrats to go ahead and issue t all of these unilateral subpoenas. they didnt have to hold a vote because they already had all the subpoena authority. now they did have the hold the vote becauseho they have to set...

Background check part of this, which is the fact finding part of this, but there are questions if they are going to uncover something definitive or not, and i am not sure they could or should, but also the fbi would just create some kind of report and pass it along to the appropriate parties, and most likely on the democratic side theres an argument if you lie to the fbi, that in itself can create problems for you, so it discourages people from making false statements in that respect and thats a...