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Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes o...

Get noticeably harder to get any legislation through. so this is viewed as the key window to get legislation accomplished and what schumer would argue is that these bipartisan talks have happened for weeks and months, and they have suggested theyre making good progress. and hes saying this first vote is simply a process vote to begin the debate. they dont have to finish the negotiations then but they have to allow to agree to the florida debate to occur. a lot of republicans say it is too premat...

>> well, i think its the way that its always been done in the past, and weve put it out there to the public, and the republicans can no longer say its behind closed doors, even though they were behind the closed doors themselves. and i think it just helps to build the case, and it puts more pressure on the members of the senate, because as they see public opinion move in our direction, they will feel that pressure. >> okay. lets look at the vote this week, which took place making the impeachment...

Happened. you lost two democrats yesterday, not a single republican voted yes. if you couldnt win over one republican for a process vote, do you have any realistic hope of winning anyone over for an actual impeachment vote? if you dont, does this end up just looking like a partisan endeavor. >> unfortunately the president has done a tremendous job of dividing congress. you know, the constitution states what are misdemeanors and high crimes and its a, b, c. its abuse, betrayal and its also the co...

After the vote, a literal split screen with democrats and republicans holding dueling news conferences and what we heard sounded like lawmakers living in alternate universes. >> this is a solemn day in the history of our country when the presidents misconduct has compelled us to continue to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. >> it is a sad day, it really is for this country, what the democrats have put our nation through, for now almost four years. >> so far weve seen damning evidence tha...

The rest of his party has been on impeachment. the expectations, particularly in petersons case, we leave them alone and say we get where you are on this one and theyll likely lose those individuals. so those are the two individuals that wont go along on this one. weve been talking about it throughout the coast of the last couple of hours. the real possibility not a single republican joins. that doesnt mean all the members of the conference are comfortable with what weve been seeing coming out o...

Lawmakers to see where they are on this. any chance a republican votes with democrats? and what about john bolton, if he is subpoenaed. do you expect him to defy that? >> if any republicans vote with the democrats, it will be in the numbers of one or two. this is not a vote to impeach. this is a process vote. theres a little wiggle room to explain that. if it does not match with the final vote that members take. as far as bolton goes, its c significant that this letter of invitation has gone out...

>> so let me ask you this. as you and i established off the top of the interview, if this was -- this is a process vote. this just allows and determines the rules. your two democratic colleagues who voted against it, congressman jeff vann drew and collin peterson, whats the rationale for voting against it if this is just the rules. this isnt a statement on whether or not you think the president should be impeached or not. >> well, in fairness, i think you would probably have to ask both of them....

The vote to watch will be when we get to that stage of voting for articles of impeachment. democrats did not push as hard as they could at this point knowing that we have such a long road to go before articles of impeachment are actually voted on and that any republican who would have stuck their neck out now to vote for this process will have spend however long that period ends up being, being hammered by the president and the presidents allies. not as much a con certaintied effort to get repub...

Line debate. think of this has a road map to how they want to conduct the rest of the inquiry. it is lead by the intel committee, and another round of public hearings tr, and then the judiciary committee will decide on a number of impeachment articles. we dont know exactly how many. and then it will go back to the fullous. this vote this morning will be something of a test vote, can democrats keep everyone in the party in line. there are half a dozen that have not been supported thus far. this i...