will learn a lot more about barry berke for the judiciary committee, steven castor, the minority counsel, daniel goldman, majority counsel for the intelligence committee and steven castor, also the minority counsel for the committee, they will be testifying and making their arguments. right. steven castor will do double duty for the republicans. the democrats will be splitting it. there s steven castor. they come from three different worlds in the legal world. daniel goldman is a career prosecutor with the southern district of new york, the federal prosecutor s office in manhattan. he s going to be sort of laying out the prosecution case. steven castor, who is representing the republicans, is a professional congressional staffer. he has worked for the republicans on capitol hill since 2005. barry berke, who was also representing the democrats, is a very successful criminal defense
parliamentary inquiry at this time. presentation of evidence to the judiciary committee is this when we hear staff and the members dealt out of the whole hearing for the next four hours you will try to overturn the result of an election with unelected people the gentleman will suspend. this meeting this hearing will be considered in an orderly fashion. the gentleman will not yell out and he will not attempt to disrupt the proceedings. we will now hear presentations of evidence from counsel to the judiciary committee, for up to 6 60 minutes equally divided. i have not barry berke for the majority and stephen castor for the minority. each will have 30 minutes to present. to help you stay within that time there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow, you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red, it signals your time is expired. mr. berke, you may begin. you realize i have the gentleman will suspend.
i m jake tapper and you re watching cnn s coverage of the historic impeachment inquiry into president trump. right now the house judiciary committee is in a brief break as the group holds its second, and possibly final, hearing into the impeachment matter. earlier today counsel for both house democrats and republicans presented their cases for and against impeaching president trump, the democrats saying it is clear from the evidence that president trump abused the power of his office while republicans say the actions of their colleagues across the aisle are politically motivated and that nothing has been proven against president trump. all of it as the vote within the judiciary committee on impeachment could take place later this week with a possible full house vote next week. let s go to manu raju on the hill. manu, what can we expect next in this hearing? reporter: we can expect the house republican counsel steve
each side will get 45 minutes to ask questions. that was the same as last week, right? and like we saw last week, most of that questioning will be done by staff attorneys for the democrats. daniel goldman, we did a murder trial together. and for the republicans, steven castor, who is an experienced congressional aide. and because of that timeframe, and because you have attorneys doing it, we have substantive, detailed testimony in that opening round. then, we will be on to questioning from the committee members, including the committee chair. there s 13 democrats and 9 republicans. each will get questioning that they can yield over to other members. who are you keeping an eye on? we have to watch peter welch, democrat from vermont. jim jordan said, i want to hear from the whistleblower.
top of the hour. today, starting wednesday, we re supposed to have hearings about the i.r.s. investigations into the targeting of tea party groups leading to the last election. will they ever get lois lerner to speak is the question? no? yes? no? darrell issa says he s gotten word that she wasto spean later to be rebuked by the attorney. who was telling the truth? certainly if you look at the e-mails here, and we have them from the attorney, it s from lerner s attorney william taylor. this is from steven castor. it says i understand from john that lerner is willing to testify and she is requesting a one-week delay in talking to the chairman, wanted to make sure we have this right. followed by this e-mail confirming yes. that s pretty emphatic. it was crazy, you had this