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What the testimony -- they cant defend a lot of what the testimony is, that rudy giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy, that people appointed by the trump administration were raising objections saying, this is wrong, it might be illegal, and it has to stop. you cant defend that. so your point is lets have an election. >> if you go back and look at this, the turning point will have been that date, i think it was september 25th, when the memorandum about the transcript was released. that is...

Cnns kaitlan collins at the white house. take us outside the deliberations there. are they nervous now that the democrats have taken this vote, which they demanded and now they dont like. >> reporter: yes, they did request the vote. but now, john, theyre still complaining about the process here saying essentially that this is unfair to the president, talking about some of these proceedings that are happening behind closed doors. they expect some of them will continue to be behind closed doors be...

Will, and they are on a path theyre not going to veer from. >> yes, and you cant underestimate how much the audience is public opinion as senate republicans as they are going to be watching these hearings and questioning whether or not they feel it is an impeachable offense or it is the middle ground, which is what youre hearing from, say, a rob portman which i call the yeah but. yeah, its bad but its not impeachable. >> were watching the republicans and the handful of senators in different stat...

Reconsider is laid upon the table. >> that vote falling almost exclusively along party lines. again, not a vote to impeach the president but a vote to set the ground rules around the now continuing impeachment proceedings. president trump reacting in realtime on twitter, of course, calling it, quote, the greatest witch hunt in american history. the speaker, you saw her with the gavel there. moments before the voting began, she was on the floor telling republicans theyre just frightened. >> today...

White house in order to provide this testimony, and so thats why the republicans have not been able to really attack any of the substance of this. we saw them starting to shift just in what they said right now after the vote rather than just saying, this process is horrible, it needs to move into the public realm. they say now the process cant be fixed at all no matter what. >> steve scalise trying to make the point that nothing has changed since the beginning of the year when speaker pelosi sai...

Doors of the process that began several weeks ago, it is nonpartisan officials who, if they had to pick a side, might lean a little bit right, had implicated or called into question what the president has done. so far that process has played out behind closed doors. when it moves into the public, it will take on a really different cast. part of the reason why these conversations or interviews have gone on behind closed doors, sure, may have been to try to minimize a republicans ability to change...

Ample safeguards in the process that will be given and that will be adhered to. the resolution is necessary to ensure that our constitutional order remains intact for future generations. what we have seen are allegations of conduct on many levels that, if proven to be true, are a challenge to the democratic order, to the democratic norms on which we all depend. we must hand this country to our children with its democracy in as good a shape as when it was handed to us. we simply have no choice be...

He absolutely believes that it exonerates them and this is what democrats say is the smoking gun against him. that is where we are right now. >> bret: hears the house chairman adam schiff talking about the procedure going forward. >> during the depositions we have conducted thus far we have used a form that we believe very conducive to the fact-finding process. those procedures that will be incorporated into the open hearings in which staff counsel will be permitted for a lengthy period of time ...

Digital flyers circulated online the substance? calling on demonstrators to wear >> very much so. masks affecting hong kong chief at this as calling our bluff that maybe they didnt hear what executive and chinese were asking for. were asking for the very same president xi jinping and other senior officials. officials anyone refusing to od process leads to good comply can be fined and jailed substance. unless you already have your for six months. mind made up about what you a massive fire caused ...

Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> bret: its a formal process, resolution pass of the house today. the vote was 2:30 2-196. no republicans voted for this resolution, two democratic votes, no boats representatives chef andrew and collin peterson of new jersey and minnesota. independent from michigan voted yes. lets bring in our panel and see where we go from here. publisher of "the federalist." national political correspondent of national public radio. byron yor...