Impeeachment Vote News Today

Impeachment. democrats this hour say the impeachment investigation is entering a new phase. according to nancy pelosi there will be a vote that will lay out the ground rules for public hearings. democrats insist this is major move. they hope it will shut down the key talking point from republicans and president trump. >> i know people are still in a basement in a secure room in the basement trying to make us look as bad as possible. >> these impeachment proceedings are rigged. they are being hel...

Direction. the fan was faced with a very tough choice. catch the home run ball or keep holding his beers in both hands. he chose both. stopping the ball with his chest while holding and managing not to spill his beer. unfortunately, the nationals lost. game 6 tomorrow in houston. go nats. im wolf blitzer. erin burnett outfront starts now. breaking news, democrats announce the first full house vote on impeachment signaling a new stage in the impeachment investigation of donald trump. new detail...

Impeachment. what this does is lay out how this will work. the political here, democrats have acknowledged this could take away the talking point that as you played repeatedly, republicans have been seizing on over the course of the last couple of weeks. republicans have made clear. i talked to a couple of republican senators over here. they say if it opens up, its good. a lot of republicans echo what mark meadows said this has been a sham. they say nothing the democrats do will change the fact ...

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About this vote announcement. >> they have been saying this is ill legitimate. this isnt a real investigation but as this first vote has been introduced and scheduled to be le held this week, white house aides are figuring out what they will do going forward. their main argument has been this is an illlegitimate investigation being done in secret. both of those things could change in their eyes if the hearings are starting to be held out in the public in the open for every one to watch and see a...

Examing the witnesses and have access to the evidence they havent been able to get their hands on. another con is the white house wont be able to argue is the democrats have no legislative argument to vote, they feel like they would have moree. so far inside the white house say they are waiting for that. >> thank you. we all are waiting for the details. lets go to democratic congressman who sits on the committee. help me understand this vote a bit more, if you can. one crucial thing republicans ...

Owe no you know its not the same thing. a lot of questions tonight about this vote. lets gos to c-- go to capitol hill. now this will become a game of semantics and fighting. tell us what you know about what this vote will do. >> reporter: theres the procedure, theres the technical and the political here. lets bottom line this. this vote which is expected to take place will lay out the road path for president trump to become the third president in the history of the united states to be impeached...

Obviously, thats a big question. let me start with you. that gave everybody the talking point. you have the secrecy and it gives republicans this talking point but now shes also part of the reason she didnt want to do it is put democrats on the hot seat with an impeeachment vote. now they have to show where they stand. >> it will. i was just communicating with somebody who is potentially on that line who pointed out something very interesting to me which is since three, four weeks ago, a lot of ...

To change the white houses strategy in terms of their obstructing as much documents or as many witnesses as they can from cooperating with this investigation. the house will continue even with this vote to have to deal with each witness individually so they can request the witness to appear and if they decline they can subpoena the witness and then go to court if they declined. i dont think it will change the white houses strategy but it does change the optics of the proceedings where now theres...

Transparent. its not going play well publicly. >> yesterday representative jeffreys said he did not believe the inquiry would wrap up by the end of the year. is there a split among democrats? do some of them believe with an election coming, thats how the vote will go. do some of them believe nietds to move much faster. >> theres differences of opinion on that issue. this is the difference is we talked about before between this inquiry and the two major ones in the past both nixon and clinton whe...