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Hours on end to today, the house floor vote. i will tell you this. speaker nancy pelosi shortly before members spoke saejd letter to all of her democratic parties laying out the stakes and asking her to join them on the floor. everybody knows the stakes for the vote theyre about to take and the history behind what theyre about to do. now all thats left to do is vote. guys? >> okay, phil mattingly. thank you. mr. trumps single-spis six-page tirade to speaker nancy pelosi. it attacks speakers and ...

Office to preserve and protect our constitution. and my promise to my constituents to kaifrcarefully analyze all issues before me. ly vote in favor of all articles of impeachment against president donald john trump. i yield back. >> gentleman from georgia. >> thank you. i yield 1 1/2 minutes. >> madam speaker, i stand before you today a disapointsed man. a broken and partisan processes that has consumed the house democrats. we were told this investigation would be bipartisan and transparent. ins...

This is in urban areas and rural areas. this is all over the country as people showing up in numbers we have not seen for a while, saying that they want to see their representatives hold thissed a minstration accountable. >> really appreciate it. >> this movement is made up of people who raised their hand. go to indevisible.org and join us. and when we come back elizabeth drew will join us. she wrote extensively about the processes against president nixon and clinton. after the nixon impeachme...

That we just have not seen for a while saying that they want to see their representatives and senators hold this administration accountable. >> ezra levine, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> great talking. this movement is made up of people who raise their hand, raise your hand, show up, be part of it go to indivisible.org and join us. when we come back elizabeth drew will be joining us. she wrote extensively about the impeachment investigation and processes ...

President. i yield back. >> members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. >> madam speaker, i continue to reserve. >> thank you, madam speaker, why we catch our breath, can you give us the time for the majority and minority. >> 43 minutes and gentleman from california 29 minutes. >> i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from florida. >> gentleman is recognized 30 seconds. >> madam speaker, im a green beret and proud veteran, but this process does not make me proud. i fought all over ...

I wonder as we look forward here because you and many of your colleagues have talked about impeachment being such a solemn process. sort of an emergency tool you use only in the most unique circumstances here. i just wonder, what do you think the lesson here for future democratic or republican presidents is in response to impeachment as they saw president trump refuse to cooperate, refuse house subpoenas? do you think thats a dangerous precedent going forward? >> well, i think both ways are a da...

I read through this quickly and its close to five and a half, six pages and there doesnt seem to be a final point to it other than the president come plang about how he feels hes been treated unfairly. talks about how his constitutional rights have been trampled upon. how he wasnt allowed to confront his accusers. how his attorneys werent allowed to be b present. but theres nothing that im reading thats necessarily new. its quite lengthy. five and a half pages of something thats a mixture of the...

Penalties. >> strongest point that schumer makes is that four witnesses the democrats want to testify, they really have a lot of firsthand knowledge of what was going on between the president and zelensky and the quid pro quo and all of that. >> yeah. they are witnesses who have firsthand accounts and are fact witnesses whose names were mentioned over and over throughout the hearings we saw take place in congress, and what youre going to hear from republicans is who cares, it doesnt matter. when...

Issue here is, shyla, that there are solutions. we could change it, and they just dont seem to, as you heard the young people say, they dont seem to listen, the biggest countries that have the money to make changes. and the changes that we could make are right there. >> yeah, and i think -- im from california, and one of the things i realize is that a failure is really only a failure if it doesnt compel learning. and i think in this case even though weve seen a series of failures in internationa...

Senate. we have received a response from this letter from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. leader mcconnell has made it clear that he plans to meet with leader schumer to discuss the contours of a trial soon. that time line has not changed. this is the opening volley that we are seeing here from chuck schumer. ultimately he will need republicans to agree to all of these requests if he does, indeed, want the senate trial to play out this way. mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the ...