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Afternoon. you serve in the house and you will be marking up this impeachment resolution. tell us about it and whats going to happen the next 24 hours. >> absolutely. thank you for the opportunity to come before you and speak about this very important hearing at 3:00 on the rules committee. today well continue thehave be. the first step was to take testimony in a classified setting. we are moving forward setting, we know that our constituents are eager to hear or know and understand what has bee...

Schiffs committee and to let the case play out there and then to give the house judiciary committee a more constrained role. and so, you know, i think it is a nod to schiff. it is a nod to his leadership. it is a nod to the work that hes done already to break this thing open, to bring forward the evidence that he has, and it will be the centerpiece of the development of the case against donald trump. but i also think its important to know that the house judiciary committee still will play a crit...

Donald trump. but i also think its important to know that the house judiciary committee still will play a critical role in drafting those articles and in probably being the place where the presidents lawyers get the first chance to make that case directly before congress. >> i think thats fair to say. and would you also, if you were advising this process, would you recommend the further use of outside counsel, something that was actually briefly successful for that committee? >> yeah, i think bo...

>> with a big change. the hearing with corey lewandowski that kind of went off the rails and came back on the rails when barry burke, a very skilled lawyer, questioned lewandowsky, that part of it came at the end of the hearing, brian. and the hard core people were still watching. what this resolution says today is that the expert questioning will come at the beginning of the hearing, in the first 90 minutes of those hearings, 45 for the democrats, 45 for the republicans. i think thats going to ...

Procedurally different up till now from the clinton experience, which is the last we have to compare this to, and does this roadmap, this document, this bill youve seen, this resolution call for anything different than the procedure followed during the clinton impeachment? >> well, to the extent that its different, it actually creates a much more extensive process for the president to tell his side of the story. remember with the clinton impeachment, basically everything happened in private. ken...

Shameful, and that is questioning the patriotism, questioning the dedication to country of people like mr. vindman, lieutenant colonel vindman. it is shameful to question their patriotism, their love of this nation, and we should not be involved in that process. >> house democrats meantime have rolled out their official roadmap for this next phase of the impeachment inquiry, including how they plan to go public with their findings. lawmakers will vote thursday on this, an eight-page resolution t...

Hearings following thursdays vote. they released a statement that read in part and we quote, the house impeachment inquiry has collected extensive evidence and testimony, and soon the american people will hear from witnesses in an open setting. the resolution provides rules for the format of open hearings in the house intelligence committee, including staff-led questioning -- thats important -- of witnesses, and it authorizes the public release of deposition transcripts. over in the senate, here...

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Resolution and a subsequent vote still do not address their concerns about the process. >> you cant put the genie back in the bottle. a due process starts at the beginning. it doesnt affirm a sham investigation all the way through. >> its clear pelosi needs to declare a mistrial. this has been a tainted process from the start. >> this process has been illegitimate. its been without credibility. >> tomorrow afternoon the house rules committee will begin reviewing the draft impeachment resolution ...

Process rights for mr. trump and his lawyers once proceedings move to the judiciary committee. today trumps republican allies in the house argued the resolution and a subsequent vote still do not address their concerns about the process. >> you cant put the genie back in the bottle. a due process starts at the beginning. it doesnt affirm a sham investigation all the way through. >> its clear pelosi needs to declare a mistrial. this has been a tainted process from the start. >> this process has b...