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Is age 660 directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing inquiry as to whether sufficient grounds exist for the house of representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach donald john trump president of the united states of america and other purposes. without objection the resolution is considered red and will be open for amendment at any point. are there any amendments to the resolution? the gentleman from georgia mr. woodall. to spea...

Available to answer questions about the draft? >> we can do that. this is not a hearing we can go through line by line and you can offer your amendments and we can have a discussion based on your concerns. i assume you have amendments. >> i do have amendments -- >> yes he would. >> i am burdened by being primarily a rules committee member and we dont do it original jurisdiction come in my time on the budget committee we would read through the budget line by line -- >> chris: you know how you say...

A vote on it for tomorrow? >> this is a bit of a different role for the rules committee, what they are actually doing is crafting the resolution itself. what they do is they go through the resolution line by line on whats called here and capitol hill and mark up. what you can anticipate is to have republican members try to offer amendments and alterations to this text that we got yesterday about 24 hours ago to try and give themselves more rights in committee and subpoena witnesses and also to p...

Vote on the final resolution, the resolution that will do what a lot of republicans have complained about, a full house vote to empower this impeachment proceeding. there seems to be no question that this is going to pass but how many democrats may vote against the impeachment resolution and how many republicans may vote for it? >> my calculation is that there are 228 yeses and 448 members of the house right now excluding katie hill the democrat from california who has formally resigned as of th...

Room. this is the house rules committee and this is where they are discussing the rule that will put this resolution to formally empower the impeachment proceedings. you see in the left of their tom cole is the top republican on the rules committee lets listen in. >> i want to state for the record that if we talk about process, we ought to respect the constitutional authority of the house of representatives. in this white house and its one of the reasons why we are here as obstructed our investi...

Resolution, rarely does it up in that way and the rules committee but they are going to take that directly from the rules committee and put that on the floor tomorrow morning. >> chris: chad gets much of what youre saying for me is for all the efforts by democrats to say this should answer all of the white houses complaints, clearly the white house is not going to be satisfied with this and president trump and his supporters will have plenty to talk about while the democrats proceed. chad pergra...

The supreme court, the president cant order them to not do that, correct? >> no, he cant. although his lawyers have intervened in the case. his lawyers are now part of the case involving his accountants. again, the president appears to be losing in that case as well. there are lots of different cases percolating through the courts about his tax returns but none of them have reached the point of final resolution where either the president himself, the irs or the accountants actually have to physi...

Which foreign entities or individuals hes partnered with over the years, to whom he owes money and theres all sorts of information that could come out with different entanglements he has with different companies all over the world. >> theres no way -- i mean, if they have to do that, according to the supreme court, the president cant order them to not do that, correct? >> no, he cant. although his lawyers have intervened in the case. his lawyers are now part of the case involving his accountants...

It is sanctioned by the department of education and teachers trust it but it should be thoroughly vetted. the second issue is how did this question get out to the teachers in the first place. if this material is to be trusted, who is vetting it and making sure that the proper procedures are in place. >> are you satisfied that theyre saying the teacher has been reassigned? >> i dont think we have a final resolution. rereassigned that means that whe the investigation is going on the teacher is ass...

Joining me now. congresswoman great to have you. thanks for taking the time. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> let me ask first about the vote here. there was tremendous debate inside the party about this. final resolution condemn all foms of hate. and i think a lot of viewers understand that. but of course the spark for this were the comments by congresswoman ilhan omar. and why was her name or any specific mention of those comments left out? >> i think that it is important for us to...