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Sense the house has not made a case, democrats. that the president should be removed from office. the polls show it. support for removal is declining. the presidents approval rating is rising. why would you want to mess with that? theyre saying maybe we have a week or two-week. both sides get to present their arguments. then we have a vote. we acquit the president and he stays on in office. the one fly in the ointment on the republican side is donald trump because on the one hand i think he know...

Buckle up, here we go. well find out together as it continues to develop here. >> julie: you have 110 nays on the democrat side. the motion to adjourn is pretty much decided. there will be no adjournment. ken starr, former independent counsel joins me now. it could be down party lines more clear. this is a partisan vote, partisan impeachment. the president believes it started before he even got elected to office. remind us back in 1998 when bill clinton was in office and he was impeached. there ...

We didnt know until late last night until 9:05 exactly how much time theyd allocate for debate on the articles of impeachment. here is the reset. if there is no more delaying tactics by republicans when they resume. it could happen. then they would call up the rule. an hour-long debate on the rule. a debate about the debate. even though theyre talking about the parameters of the debate theyll really be talking about impeachment itself. this is key. its the first time the essence of the articles ...

Respects minority rights and one that opens up the investigation to all members of the house and wron that allows republicans on the judiciary committee to examine the most relevant witnesses. perhaps most crucially it will allow all members to fully consider the information available to the committee that actually conducted the impeachment investigation, the permanent select committee on intelligence. the process of the house followed has been abyss mall. it was a closed process, did not respec...

This includes the actual rules of the house of representatives along with jeffersons manual. i will direct you to one section we might hear a lot about. section 17 which deals with -- you might hear the term of art on the house floor today, words being taken down. according to jeffersons manual. thomas jefferson. they use some of his rules today. you cannot speak ill of the president or impugn his motives on the floor. if youre impeaching the president its hard to imagine you might have language...

Properly demanded the exercise of that right. and yet chairman nadler declined to allow a minority hearing day to be held before the voting of these articles. i think we can all agree that it would have been better for the institution and for the american people to allow all voices to be heard and all witnesses to be questioned before proceeding to a vote on something as this consequential. yet the majority trampled on that right. i suppose i shouldnt be surprised by any of this. when the house ...

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Creek, michigan tonight. thats a state that the president believes that he can win again in 2020. and that rally could kick off at exactly the moment that the vote is going on in the house. if that six-page letter that we saw from the president yesterday to nancy pelosi where he suggested that people who were accused of the salem witch trials got more due process than he got, watch for the president to really raise the roof on the auditorium tonight in that political campaign. he will do that an...

The 2020 elections. our vote today in the senates actions on impeachment have very real long-term consequences for american democracy. where do we go from here if the senate does not remove him? the president has a pattern of escalating behavior. the day before this special counsel testified to congress that the russian government interfered in our election in sweeping and systemic fashion, president trump made this call. two days before that the president says that article 2 of the constitution...

Appointing an authorizing managers for the impeachment trial if offered by the chair of the judiciary committee debatable for 10 minutes. no resolution incidental to impeachment relating to 755 shall be privileged during the remainder of the 116th congress. finally the rule provides that the chair of the judiciary committee may insert explanatory material in the congressional record. madam speaker, 232 years ago as he walked out of the constitutional convention in philadelphia, benjamin franklin...