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The special council, was doing this kind of investigating as a law enforcement officer essentially behind closed doors before it got to congress. there was no impeachment inquiry and thats how theyre running the intell process. all of that said, 47 republicans are on the committees doing this and they could be in the room asking questions at any time. >> i have to turn now, the democratic congressman from maryland and house majority leader, good morning. >> good morning, stefanie, how close are ...

Expeditiously. on the other hand, as you said, or as was said, we need to dot the is and cross the ts. you made the point as well that republicans want to talk about process which i say is like a lawyer who has neither the law nor the facts on the side and they want to pound on the table nap is what theyre doing. that is what yesterday was about. an attempt to distract and when i have asked others what do you think about a foreign leader getting asked to get involved in our elections, they never...

Sew they can gather as much evidence as possible. they dont want to riskt -- risk the witnesses talking to each other. and more importantly unfair to the president. that is the same play book that the democrats ran in bill clintons impeachment in the late 90s. it is a tried and true effort to say this is an unfair process. but people are doing everything they can to keep their powder dry and not comment on the proceedings even when the word comes out is pretty damming. here is what we tried when...

Stage one. that could mean public hearings which is what republicans are calling for. >> we demand open proceedings. >> maybe in the soviet union that is commonlati place. >> the american people understand that what is happening is not fair. >> house republicans have the right to the public hearings, but they have not in any way been shut out of the process, the truth is 47 of them had full access to these depositions and they had the right to question witnesses, you just have to be a member of ...

>>. >> cant speak to whether or not we had witnesses. whether or not they will koob rate or not well see. >> and by the way, stefanie, one of the issues in this entire oversight responsibility that the congress is exercising is the refeudw sal to cooperate. unlike the clinton and the obama administration previously. so when they talk about process, theyre obstructing process. >> the white house says were not going to cooperate until you hold a vote. do you believe the white house will play ball?...

Talked about bill taylors testimony. >> sorry, i havent gotten it yet. >> do you have reaction to bill taylors testimony? >> i dont. >> there will be at least one more full week of closed door depositions and there will at some point be open hearings that republicans have been clambering for. they are trying to move the process along quickly and they have a lot of eyes to dot. >> moments ago when we showed them saying this is the united states, this is not the soviet union. we do them in public,...