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President trump. ship call this process an impeachment inquiry. some call it an impeachment investigation. there is no legal difference between these terms and i no longer care to argue about gnomen clacher with the new procedures, next week we will begin an aggressive series investigating allegations of corruption, obstruction and abuse of power against the president. the investigation will go well beyond the four points of the mueller report. >> not surprisingly, final vote, 24-17 went along p...

Could be different? senator, have you made your final vote? is your mind made up? >> to give you a sense of the intensity surrounding the senators. protesters on the heels of senator collins. todays vote came after weeks of raw emotion and shocking allegations and confrontations and delays. i want to get it phil mattingly and jeff who covered it from the start. you have new reporting on senator murkowskis thinking. >> she was the big news of that procedural vote, deciding to vote no and standing...

Assaulted that night or at some other time, but they do lead me to conclude that the allegations failed to meet the more-likely-than-not standard. therefore, i do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent judge kavanaugh from serving on the court. >> reporter: senator joe manchin, a red state democrat, announcing just minutes later he too would be a yes. >> my concern basically with the sexual abuse people had to endure and very much concerned that we have to do something as a country. s...

Votes. the dream scenario is that flake peels away and its 50-50. and who comes in to seal the deal? the happiest man in the world, mike pence, the v.p., breaks the tie, and he delivers america a conservative supreme court justice that locks in a generation of jurisprudence and is the best chance for his bid to be president after trump. >> mm-hmm. >> so this comes down to numbers, but only if collins, murkowski, and flake decide to leave. >> yeah. only if. okay. thank you. weve got a lot to get ...

Peels away and its 50-50. and who comes in to seal the deal? the happiest man in the world, mike pence, the v.p., breaks the tie, and he delivers america a conservative supreme court justice that locks in a generation of jurisprudence and is the best chance for his bid to be president after trump. >> mm-hmm. >> so this comes down to numbers, but only if collins, murkowski, and flake decide to leave. >> yeah. only if. okay. thank you. weve got a lot to get to, chris. so ill let you go. were goi...

Or their decisions? to your point, its political cover too. its for senators who werent quite there yet and are unsettled by the allegations but perhaps believed brett kavanaugh or watched his testimony and were convinced by brett kavanaugh. they recognize that on their own or in isolation they probably couldnt move forward. this now gives them the veneer of we have an investigation. this makes it a bitter process and, therefore, we can move forward. >> phil, thank you. if we need you, well get ...

Those senators? will it help inform your decisions? to your point, its political cover too. its for senators who werent quite there yet and are unsettled by the allegations but perhaps believed brett kavanaugh or watched his testimony and were convinced by bet kavanaugh. they recognize that on their own or in isolation they probably couldnt move forward. this now gives them the veneer we have an investigation. it makes it a better process and therefore we can move forward. >> phil, thank you. if...

Charges, majority of them on the final vote wednesday the vote that he cast. he didnt whip him to vote with him but he voted for the final bill that came through. owe is in no possession to give ground any time soon. he wont do it. taxes are as a political practical matter only thing that would extract new taxes at this stage of the game would be major concessions on entitlement spending which is exactly opposite what the president wants to do. >> bill: i got 20 seconds. i dont care about chuck ...

Charges, majority of them on the final vote wednesday the vote that he cast. he didnt whip him to vote with him but he voted for the final bill that came through. owe is in no possession to soon. he wont do it. taxes are as a political practical matter only thing that would extract new taxes at this stage of the game would be major concessions on entitlement spending which is exactly opposite what the president wants to do. >> bill: i got 20 seconds. i dont care about chuck hagel the former sena...

Significant progress in rewriting the standards for texas textbooks. and as you correctly point out, since many states adopt the books that are developed for texas, this has wider ranging implications. i asked one conservative to explain what has changed in all of this. take a listen. >> the free enterprise system -- positive way over and over throughout the document. honoring the founding fathers and teaching our kids about the constitution again. >> liberals, however, have a different viewpoin...