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The impeachment matter. the house considering a resolution to formalize the inquiry which essentially sets the ground rules for the investigation and what we might expect to play out over the next month or two or beyond. new hour starts now. bill hemmer live in new york. day of history as we watch it unfold together. welcome back. >> julie: im julie banderas in for sandra smith. lawmakers in the house right now taking up the measure that sets up the next steps in the impeachment effort. the meas...

For a moment, is it that this is something who was on the call, right, when were talking about tim morrison, someone with firsthand knowledge. and so, out the window, potentially, goes this charge of, well, this is hearsay, it doesnt really matter. >> yeah, thats exactly it, absolutely. weve seen so often, and this is what max kind of referenced earlier, is you know, shifting excuses for explaining away why the president did this or didnt do that or whatever might have been wrong, might not have...

Process moves forward. >> ken, do we know whether she knew the whistleblowers identity? >> that is not 100% clear, but because the whistleblower went to her through a colleague. but once it became clear, certain identifying facts about this whistleblower, what his expertise was, where he had worked, there are not a large number of people that fit that description. and so its fairly easy, i think, for white house officials at this point to determine at least a short list of suspects, mike. >> all...

Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been given the first chance to try to form a government after a chance to negotiate with his rival failed. >> it will be fascinating for but avoiding a coalition and another election will be impossible to navigate. oren leibermann joins us from jerusalem this morning. oren? >> reporter: there is certain uncertainty, as the process moves forward. but it was benjamin netanyahu who was given a chance to form a government. even though he doesnt have the

Chalyan. >> great to be here. >> we often hear observers say dont bet against nancy pelosi. she knows what shes doing. democrats say if she wants to slow roll the impeachment process she must know something. >> listen, she lived through an experience thats informing her from 98. nancy pelosi has proven to be a savvy strategist of how to deal with the democratic caucus in the house. thats her base of power. here is the one thing i wonder. are we overlearning lessons in some way? is it not possibl...

Conversations and legal considerations to take into account as this process moves forward. theres certain things that many people are going to, including on the republican side, say, look, this is just something that cant get into the public domain and thats a big issue that were going to be talking about for many, many days. eric: some of that stuff could be classified material, grand jury testimony and youre going to have redactions. if they release this thing, youve got tons of blacked out re...

>> oh, no. >> the president cant hire thousands of people you have should guy in there filling the posts. >> he is a busy man. >> trump was not a governor or an elected office, he came from a business world he needed people who could deal with government, politics in washington, d.c., he did not bring in his open tea own team f hundreds of people, as matt pointed out as process moves along. >> the one person who does not work in white house or married to someone in it i think president is learni...

>> oh, no. >> the president cant hire thousands of people you have should guy in there filling the posts. >> he is a busy man. >> trump was not a governor or an elected office, he came from a business world he needed people who could deal with government, politics in washington, d.c., he did not bring in his open tea own team f hundreds of people, as matt pointed out as process moves along. >> the one person who does not work in white house or married to someone in it i think president is learni...

Hill, get over to phil mattingly for more on this. phil, this is clearly, potentially a very big deal. >> reporter: yeah and its also your occasional reminder that senators are people too and senator danes has made clear that he will not be here on saturday. im told that he made this clear to senate republican leadership a couple of days ago, that this wasnt news to them and that they were planning for this possibility. heres what we need to know about the numbers right now. tomorrow, the vote w...

Investigation with the resources of the fbi at their gofl that lasts seven days. i just think friday is absolutely the limit? >> neil: always good catching up with you a.b. >> thanks so much, neil. >> neil: lets get a read on all of this. you may not think the house has any say but influence and sentiment at the grassroots level how this is all going down. dan kildee joins us now. >> thank you very much. >> neil: good to see you. what is your sense where this was going. michigan mimitch mcconnel...