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impeachment inquiry into president biden. for months, the white house and hunter biden have been stone walling our investigation trying to hide the truth, and this stonewalling is whats caused us to be here today, like chairman cole said yesterday, its deeply sad. its a sad day, not something any of us want to be doing on this house floor, but it has become necessary. following todays floor vote on h-res 918, the committees on oversight, accountability, ways and means and judiciary wil...

To be from the house presenting this case against the president in the senate. i cannot address this enough, we are in unchartered waters. i spoke to democrats and republicans who spent the phone with constitution experts, with impeachment experts trying to figure out what can and cant be done. and what happens next. >> it would be great to have those answers. generally americans believe that trials have witnesses. and so thank you very much for your reporting. democrats are hammering how do you...

Will send its report. the public will see that report today. >> in london, the president was asked about impeachment. he mentioned censure as a lesser alternative. >> unacceptable. i did nothing wrong. i heard about it. they want to go to censure. >> they want to go to censure, he says. >> lets bring in marshall cohen live in washington. what did you make of that? >> is he looking for an off-ramp, from becoming the third u.s. president in history to get impeached? he might want that. im not sure...

This report is crucial. it details the evidence that democrats have collected over the past eight weeks, lays the groundwork for the specific articles of impeachment, and frankly, sets the clock ticking on that formal vote to impeach donald trump. in less than 48 hours, the judiciary committee is going to hold its first public impeachment hearing and they of course then are going to be writing formal articles of impeachment. we now know who will be testifying at the public hearing. four impeachm...

Associate while efforts in ukraine was under way. what red flags does that raise? >> reporter: i mean the first thing that i can say is thats a clear conflict of interest. if hes participating in the investigation as the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, he should have recused himself. especially if he was having conversations with mr. rudy giuliani when they were putting pressure on president zelensky. its interesting to me that mr. nunes continues to be a part of this overall...

If he calls him, is schiff compelled to testify or could he fight it? >> he is not. bet the house, schiff will never get up there and subject himself to a real cross examination. when did you -- when did your staff or you meet with whistleblower? what was said? were any notes taken? were any documents and reports performed? have you had any contacts with the whistleblowers lawyer? or frankly any of the other witnesses? none of that will happen. thats why the president can fairly argue hey, this ...

Expect to see some of the fireworks on that standpointed at other members as opposed to the witnesses. >> so scholars and impeachment experts on wednesday. garrett haake, thank you. let me bring in glen kirchner, former federal prosecutor, also a msnbc legal analyst, and yamiche alcindor, pbs "newshour" white house correspondent. she is also an msnbc political contributor. thanks to both of you. mr. kirchner, ill start with you, sir. if you were a house judiciary committee chairman nadler, if yo...

Leaders, outstanding diplomat, very precise, very professional. considered an excellent mentor, you know, a good leader. >> the house judiciary committee announced yesterday that its going to hold its first impeachment hearing next week. president trump has recently blasted the allies showing that the impeachment hearing was failing due process for the president. in a letter announcing the hearing, jerry nadler invited trump and his lawyers to participate. and at the same time warned that contin...

Happen if he was ever thrown under the bus. >> you can assume i talk to him early and often and have a very, very good relationship with him and all of these comments, which are totally insulting. ive seen things written like hes going to throw me under the bus. i say he isnt but i have insurance. >> stay tuned for what rudy says in response to trumps latest comments and all of this is happening while were one step closer to seeing articles of oimpeachment drawn up against the president. the hou...

The title of the hearing, the impeachment inquiry into president donald j. trump, constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment. a democratic aide tells nbc news that the witnesses for this first hearing will be academics like constitutional scholars and impeachment experts. judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler sent a letter to trump asking whether he and his counsel plan to attend the hearing and question witnesses. chairman nadler reminded the president house rules do entail him as ...