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The judiciary committee also produces a big comprehensive final report for the congressional record that summarizes the impeachment case and is supposed to guide the vote on the floor. and yes, every impeachment is a little different and they all have very unpredictable elements. as far as i can tell thats going to happen here in the trump impeachment. we believe on sunday night the judiciary committee in the house are going to produce their own final report on impeachment for trump. which is in...

Hunter biden for the joe biden aspect of article one in the abuse of powere lines. >> youre right about that, andrea. a decided lack of self awareness on the part of matt gates. he was checked by congressman hank johnson given that gates has a record of a dui arrest. but for the most part, setting aside the few clearing exceptions, the proceeding that we have seen today has been mostly subdued and orderly given the way things can typically go. you heard the facts in evidence, theyre tryingct to ...

>> they played the tape. during the senate trial. >> why. >> they chose to. the senate has the sole power to try impeachment case. they can do it any way they want. >> president trump wants the witnesses to be in person. he made it clear. opposed to having the recordings and depositions. we have not heard the same from republican senators who said essentially they think that could get out of hand. they favor video tapes. >> republicans have not been making an argument about the evidence. they ha...

Entirely up to the senate. we have pictures in our head of what a criminal trial looks like. in a prosecution, defense. witnesses, jury. thats the senate can make no witnesses. they can have witnesses who testify in the senate chamber. what happened in the clinton trial in 1999 was that this were depositions of about three or four different witnesses who were examined by a handful of senators off campus. and the transcript -- >> the house managers. the president personal secretary. sent a close ...

Majority of full house, then the president is impeached and then its on to the final step, which is a trial in the senate, which likely well see shortly after the new year. so its going to be an incredibly important couple weeks ahead, brooke, and much to look forward to. allmy will have a senate trial in january i believe and a remarkable thing to behold. >> elie, thank you for all of that. talk through everything with me now is jennifer rogers, former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst a...

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>> my goal is to do it as expeditiously but as fairly as possible, depending how long it takes. >> and are the articles of impeachment currently underway? i mean, there are drafts, they are being written as we speak, correct? >> well, there are possible drafts that various people are writing, but the fact is, were not going to make the decisions as to how broad the articles should be, as to what they contain and what the wording is until after the hearing tomorrow. >> congressman jerry nadler, t...

Used, i need to either obtain a search warrant or a court order. and the granddaddy of all sort of cellphone investigative measures, if i wanted to listen in realtime to what someone was saying, i had to get a title 3 wiretap, and the legal hoops and hurdles we had to jump through as law enforcement are enormous. rightfully so because if the government are going to surveil your calls in realtime we want lots of protections in place. none of those protections apply to russian intelligence agencie...

Need to know about what the plans and the intent is right now because rudy giuliani said something that i cant believe the presidents team wants him to say. he said in a tweet, hey, ukraine, youre not going to get u.s. help in your anti-corruption reform efforts if you dont help me with what im doing with the bidens. how is that helpful to the presidents impeachment case? >> its not helpful at all. it resonates with all of the concerns being voiced by the democratic side. and it also undercuts i...

To say. he said in a tweet, hey, ukraine, youre not going to get u.s. help in your anti-corruption reform efforts if you dont help me with what im doing with the bidens. how is that helpful to the presidents impeachment case? >> its not helpful at all. it resonates with all of the concerns being voiced by the democratic side. and it also undercuts in a significant way the presidents -- one of his primary defenses, which is that he was pressuring ukraine not for his own benefit but rather to addr...