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Out the ground rules for how hearings are conducted and how witnesses are interviewed, how grand jury information is handled. what we do know about all of this is that majority of democrats in the majority in the house of representatives do support at least an inquiry, and we have a graphic to show you, something like 134 out of 235 democrats in the majority support that idea, including congressman anthony brown of maryland who was at a town hall this morning, and he got asked about it. >> im on...

Committee chairman jerry nadler will lay out the ground rules for conducting future hearings. they hope by explicitly defining their inquiry, they would have a stronger argument to compel witness testimony and while the precise language is being hammered out, it is expected to follow the precedent that was set back in 1974 during then president richard nixons impeachment proceedings. joining us now 2020 presidential candidate and the founder of need to impeach initiative, tom steyer. thank you f...

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You, with this major development in the standoff between house democrats and president trump. cnn has learned that the house judiciary committee is ready to vote next week on how to begin an impeachment investigation. >> yeah. thats right, this will lay out the ground rules for conducting impeachment hearings into the president which are different than typical congressional hearings. to break this down for us is cnns senior congressional compornt m correspondent manu raju joining us. what can we...

Ainsley: this is what she said in the letter. i would like to request admitted to israel in order to visit my relatives and specifically my grandmother who is in her 90s and lives in a certain area there on the west bank. this could be my last opportunity to see her. i will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against israel during my visit. whats your response to that? >> look, i think she made the right humanitarian request. i think the israelis had the right instincts becaus...

Important about the direction of the democratic party. up to you, wolf. >> thank you, very much, jeff zeleny. a very important night. as we watch what is going on the stage behind hus, i want to bring in our political experts. mark preston, lets talk about steve bullock. hes the last of the ten candidates going through the walk-through and giving him some of the ground rules. tell us what hes hearing right now. >> well a couple of things. as we talk about this could be the end of the road for ma...

Voters, they want to get to know candidates but they are aware of the fact the more they attack each other the more problems they might have later as they get closer to a nominee. listen to what the voters told me. >> i wish they would all get together and say, look, this is what were not going to do. yeah, then once you become the nominee the shrapnel, youve left everyone in your wake. then the opponent uses what everybody else used the last year. yeah, i wish they would make some ground rules ...

And the opponent has used what everyone else has used the last year. yeah, i wish they would make ground rules definitely. >> there are people who say this is a primary. this is what happens in primaries. the debate is healthy for the party. no? >> the debate is healthy. going at each other personally i dont think is healthy at all. >> that concerns me, too. because some of the things that people have a right to change their opinions. and some of the things that have been done in the past or sai...

Joining us now m.j. lee, john avalon, and alex burns. and friends, we have some new reporting about the kurnd front runner in the democratic race, joe biden. and the strategy he plans to deploy in these debates. several advisers have encouraged biden to be more aggressive earlier in the campaign, one adviser said. but after the debate which biden rewatched afterward, the former vice president told aides he felt he needed to fight back more. one official said biden genuinely believes he was a lit...

He was a little too polite in the last debate. he followed the ground rules that were set while other candidates did not. and last night at a fundraiser biden was under by an attendee to be tougher in this upcoming debate and he said hes not going to be as polite this time around. >> well have to see. heres what biden told reporters yesterday. >> if he wants to go back and talk about records, im happy to do that. but i would rather talk about the future. >> so what do you think? is being a count...