we re only four days away from the house passing impeachment proceedings. the house and senate are in recess. the president is at mar-a-lago. nothing is trying. the trial won t happen for several weeks. it s not unreasonable what the speaker is doing. she needs to appoint her impeachment managers, those are essentially prosecutors, and she wants to understand what kind of venue the prosecutors are going to be trying a case in. is it going to be fair? i find this whole thing a little laughable in the sebs of these process arguments. for months we ve heard from trump and his allies, the process is going way fast, we need to slow this down, we need more witnesses. that s exactly what the speaker is saying. we need to hear from more witnesses and now senate republicans are saying, no, no, no, we need to move this faster. there s a lot of irony going on here. let s take a listen to what house intel committee chair adam
who can convince him it would be in his benefit if the house is forced to just hold these. so i understand the jujitsu move. it did surprise people. the white house, i will say had been hearing for at least a day it might happen. i was hearing it from folks from the white house 24 hours before this took place. i think they would be thrilled. because mitch mcconnell s answer would be, okay. correct. it d be like, that s fine. because it allows them to say this was just purely politics. exactly. this was just a gesture. it was a statement. you said you wanted to impeach him from day one. and move fast. it has to move fast. and if you don t move fast, then sotomayor a proble it s a problem. she could say republicans are doing well making these process arguments. advisers of the president said the importance is for us to keep it at 35,000 feet and not to engage in the actual substance. just keep decrying the process. keep trashing the pros. maybe that s what nancy pelosi
made a lot of process arguments against house democrats and they didn t seem to care one lick about what republicans claimed or said. now they get to go in and say this is how the senate process should be. that s fine but guess what, they can only complain and whine so much. devil s advocate, is this the only leverage that nancy pelosis has here and trying to use it to her advantage. nancy pelosi is trying to use what leverage she has to force fair treatment from a man who went out in public and said he will not be impartial. they take a oath to say they will do impartial justice. mitch mcconnell says he doesn t plan to do that. listening to mitch mcconnell speak on the floor the last thing the world needs are lectures on fairness and procedure for the man who held up merit garland. mitch mcconnell is trying to pretend he s doing a fair trial and holding up the senate and then goes on talk radio and says he s going to do nothing of the kind. the guy you used to work for
himself to work with mr. giuliani to fulfill his demands. president trump withheld critical military aid for ukraine. and president trump stonewalled congress investigation to cover up his misconduct. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois. gentleman s recognized for one minute. madam speaker, this should not be a partisan vote. this is a vote about america. it s a vote about our democracy and our oath to the constitution. we all took an oath to protect the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and we all know that what president trump did was wrong. we all know it s wrong to withhold foreign aid as a political for a political favor. we know it s wrong to ignore congressional subpoenas. and we know it s wrong to default to silly partisan process arguments rather than to rise and defend this beautiful, but all too fragile, democracy. and when those in elected power abuse their position for personal advantage, it s on us to somberly uphold and defen
hunter biden behind closed doors. and so now the huge irony is that as the process moves to the senate, when republicans are going to control the entire process, they re saying even though our argument was that we were cheated and this is unfair in the house, now that we control it, we don t want witnesses and we don t want a trial. unbelievable. thank you so much, heidi. let me go back to garrett on the floor. what s happening now? that measure did not succeed? reporter: it won t succeed. we re waiting on a few more votes to be cast. i m watching a couple more tick off the board. we expect this will probably be the last of the procedural hurdles at this phase of the game. we expect the next thing to happen will be the debate on the actual rules setting the terms of debate for the articles of impeachment. this will look like an actual debate when it gets started. you will see members start to hash out not just the process arguments that you heard from heidi, but also democrats will