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232. the nays are 196. >> reporter: with that drop of the gavel, the house entering a new phase of the impeachment inquiry, one exceedingly likely to wind up with the impeachment of president donald trump. official procedures for that process, the vote almost entirely along party lines with no republicans supporting it and two democrats voting against. those two democrats crossing the aisle from areas trump handily won in the 2016 election. >> today the country just witnessed the only bipartisan...

Same territory where nixon was right around the summer of 1974 when he was at the end of the watergate process. i mean, the president, i mean, the number for removing the president from office didnt start to clear 50% until late summer of 74 just before nixon resigned. so the president has, you know, hes overperforming here in terms of where the poll is. but the second issue, i think, is this may be where the polls stay now. because that 38%, as you say, willie, theyre just not going to budge. i...

It is legal fiction. it is dangerous. it is misleading. >> final question, i believe you are on the record supporting the opening of an impeachment inquiry. how do you see what happens tomorrow in relationship to the fundamental constitutional question of impeachment? >> i think an impeachment inquiry as took place under the watergate process, the water hearing is the right way to go, and the final analysis, the american public is the jury. its not just the senate, right? this has to come organi...

Telling the attorney general what he can and cant say before congress. it is legal fiction. it is dangerous. it is misleading. >> final question, i believe you are on the record supporting the opening of an impeachment inquiry. how do you see what happens tomorrow in relationship to the fundamental constitutional question of impeachment? >> i think an impeachment inquiry as took place under the watergate process, the water hearing is the right way to go, and the final analysis, the american publ...

The parallels are being drown to the nixonian enemies list but at least that was being done behind closed doors until it was exposed in the watergate process. >> theres no ambiguity give on the what the president told the "wall street journal." he said something that had to be done because they were behind the russia information. no ambiguity. as you said, lisa, it hasnt had the immediate impact perhaps that the president was hoping for which was silenting john brennan because he wrote this blis...

These documents likely the e-mails to trump tower. we know that a few days later, donald trump said he was going to talk about all the bad things the clintons did, then he didnt. then a week later, guccifer 2.0 starts publishing this dirt, these e-mails and it copies right on through the campaign with donald trump encouraging everybody to look at the wikileaks site and then youve got his hinedge man roger stone had communications with guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks. the outline of what has happened ...

These e-mails and it copies right on through the campaign with donald trump encouraging everybody to look at the wikileaks site and then youve got hedge man roger stone had had communications with guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks. the outline of what has happened here is pretty obvious at this point. >> as someone who obviously went through the watergate process, do you think -- what is your reaction to hearing that mcgahn threatened to fire? because it sounds similar to you know, what happened over t...

Unfortunately, mr. smith wont be a witness in this case. >> right. >> final question for you. robert mueller has hired a whole bunch of extra folks form office. theyve been getting scrutiny about who they donated to. i wonder if this was a thing happened in the watergate process. the reporting requirements hadnt been passed because they were passed as a result of watergate. but if there was scrutiny with the office you were working with. >> absolutely. as you recall the prosecutor, was the solic...

Matter of best practices, or abundance of ution, all the legal mumbo jumbo that comes out of there, that mueller is drawing lessons from history? >> i think thats right. this is sped up. the watergate process took a lot longer. we have at least shadows on the wall of investigations of collusion with the russians and perhaps financial crimes, perhaps obstruction of justice and perhaps some connection among all of those things. to leap from chapter 1 to chapter 16, if and were a long way from that...

Included the obstruction of justice for which nixon was driven out of office. so for donald trump to find out, if hes finding out tonight, that this investigation is going to go beyond the original focus of it, thats not great news for him. >> its interesting you say that. because youre refusing to in the watergate timeline which many have oebds took so much longer, it appears that publicly, but as you said, within government the understanding of how wide this scope was came later. so do you inf...