The proceedings that will lead up to the vote of the two articles of impeachment. He will go down as the third american president to be impeached. Abuse of power, obstruction of congress. Andrea mitchell is here with us. Those joining us characterized the weight of history of this day. This is the first time that were having an impeachment in the first term of a presidency. So the reelection that is ahead of us is another major factor. The history. The burden on both sides of the aisle is really profound. You may not see an elevated debate. Lets listen to the presiding officer. The motion is adopted. Without objection the motion to reconsider is layed on the table. Madam speaker by direction of the committee on rules i ask for it to be in consideration. House calendar number 73. House resolution 767 resolved. Immediately upon adoption of this resolution without any point of order the house shall proceed to the consideration of the house in the house of the resolution House Resolution 755 impeaching Donald John Trump, president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee now printed in the resolution shall be considered as adopted. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution as amended to adoption without demand for division of the president except as follows. Shall be debatable for six hours equally divided by the committee on the judiciary or their respective designees. It shall be divided between the two articles. Section 2, during consideration of House Resolution 755, only the following persons shall be admitted to the hall of the house or rooms leading there to. A, members of congress. B, the delegates and the resident commissioner, c, the president and Vice President of the United States, d, other persons as designated by the speaker. Section 3, after adoption of House Resolution 755 it shall be in order without intervention of any point of order to consider in the house a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, president of the United States. If all provided chairs a committee on the judiciary or his designee to adoption without intervening motion equally divided by the Ranking Member of the judiciary. No other resolution incidental to impeachment to House Resolution 755 shall be privileged during the remainder of the 116th congress. Section 4, the chair of the committee may insert in the congressional record such material as he may be and the clerk reading the resolution, the motion now, this is getting to the rules. The rules now being put forth. We may see republicans try to table this. Madam speaker, i read the point of order for failure i raise this point of order for failure to disclose the waiver clause 2j1 pursuant to clause rule of 13 which requires the rules committee to specify their report. Any waiver of a point of order against a measure under consideration and this underlying resolution violates clause 2j1 of rule 11 that entitles the minority of the committee to have the ability to call witnesses to testify during at least one day of a hearing on any given measure. This was not afforded to the Judiciary Committee members during considerations of the articles of impeachment despite numerous requests by the minorities members. Therefore the violation of minority rights and the denial of this evidence to be put into the record and for this hearing which the house rules require which was not complied with and was denied. I would urge the enforcement of this rule. The gentleman from louisiana seeks to raise a point of order against House Resolution 767onthe grounds that the report accompanying the resolution fails to specify waiver of a particular point of order and is thus in violation of class 6g of rule 13. The gentleman is stating a matter for debate rather than a proper point of order. Class 6g of rule 13 is merely informational on any specified waivers to the maximum extent possible. In the 104th congress any quote failure of the rules committee to specify waivers in a rule would not give rise to a point of order against the special rule that waives all point of order. The chair would advise the gentleman again that he is not stating a proper point of order. Massachusetts is recognized. Madam speaker. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. For the purposes of debate only i yield a customary 30 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from oklahoma, my good friend and then yield myself such time as i macon assume. During consideration of the resolution all time is yielded for the purposes of debate only. I ask unanimous consent that all members be given five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. Without objection. On tuesday they met and recorded a closed rule for House Resolution 757 providing for impeaching donald j. Trump president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors. The rule provides six hours of debate so this is the official start of debate on the rules. Including a six hour equal time to debate. This is the beginning of the rules now. They are pretty much on schedule. You spent a lot of time covering this body. A lot of procedures. It takes awhile. It does. This is moving rather quickly for congress. This is a closed rule so its not amendable so the republicans use their procedure. You saw steve scalise, the republican that had a lot of acclaim for the way he recovered from the shooting years ago. He is very popular among both parties beyond partisanship for showing such courage and resilience. But the congresswoman from colorado presiding right now over this and ruled it out of order. It will be 30 minutes or each side. Youll hear from the ranking republican. And none of this would be happening if the democrats were still in the minority. Everything in the house is dependent on who is in charge where as the senate has filibuster rules largely amended but theres still a filibuster and a way for individual senators to gum up the works on the house side. If you are in charge, if you have the votes, if you have the speaker, you rule. You rule the rules committee and that rules the debate. Republicans have few opportunities here to try to slow this train down at this point. They do. They can try but this debate will be generally six hours. There are waivers in that, when the speaker gets up, when the republican counterpart gets up, the minority leader, that doesnt count against the overall six hours. That clock has not started. This is a one hour clock that just started on the rules. If youre timing your dinner according to this i would keep things ready for the microwave. Well watch that play out. Were watching rules here but theres not a lot of rules about impeachment. The framers layed out some specifics but not as many as perhaps people would hope for. Absolutely. This is really something that ha hangs over all of us. The real challenge is why not since theres an election in 11 months why not just let the public decide this. Why should the president be voted out not by the electorate but by house and the senate. And thats where i think the six page letter i think youre going to hear a lot about because one thing it shows is a complete lack of remorse. You dont have the president saying i made a mistake. Im not going to do this again. Instead he said im happy to do it again. So i think that youll see the democrats will try to capitalize on that. How many arrows do democrats have . Their chief argument is this is a National Security issue. He threatened to invite foreign interference into the election in 2020. And that was a primary issue for the founders. When they created impeachment it was informed by their fear of foreign interference. They were breaking away from england and the king and they wanted to make sure that there was no foreign interference and that is a fundamental part of what they have defined as high crimes and misdemeanors, whatever definitions there are and its not a legal term but thats why they say they needed to act now. Lets go back to jeff standing there outside of the chambers. You have a guest with you i see. I do. We saw her make her way to the floor. We anticipate that she will speak sometime shortly but youre right. Im standing here with mark meadows from the great state of North Carolina. Its good to see you. Good to see you as well. What does he have to say about the impeachment . Its a sad day for our country. Nots much for the president of the United States. He knows that he didnt do anything wrong. He knows that this is a partisan effort but its a sad day for our country. We could be fixing roads and bridges and lowering drug prices and passing legislation meaningful to people back home and inspite of that the economy continues to roar but the president is certainly in a somber mood because he sees what this is doing to the country and how its dividing the country and yet support for impeachment continues to fail. What would you say to those that say his own dealings in effect divided the country. Theres only two problems with that. Its really the behavior of the democrats that were concerned about today. Bringing forth an impeachment based on the flimsy evidence and a lot of hearsay. You have a real problem. You have the number one guy in ukraine and the number two and number 3 person in ukraine all of which say there was no oask political favors but they felt no pressure. So you have fact witnesses, the very victim of the crime that are saying that theres nothing there and yet were embarking on impeachment . Its wrong. The mountain of evidence and testimony tell a different story. The mountain of hearsay and nobody has been in more depositions and hearings than me. I have looked in the eyes just like i am looking to the American People right now and what i have been able to see is time and time again when the president has been exonerated either by testimony or by direct evidence, you know, the democrats have ignored it. Their rush to impeachment. We had three impeachment votes before there was ever a uk now all of a sudden, whats going to be next. But it wouldnt be hearsay if he would allow people to tell what they know. Ive been one supportive of secretary pompeo and perry. Would they believe him . No he works for the president. You understand how this works and what theyre going to do is try to make sure this is all about politics. Why do you have to leave . Im told we have to go back to the floor here. Good to see you as well. I dont think he wanted to leave yet. Thank you, jeff for that. And as we noted a moment ago we kicked off the hour debate of the rules that will govern how they will debate and ultimately vote on the two articles of impeachment today. Andrea mitchell were going to break away here in a moment. But what should people keep in mind. This debate will replicate a lot of what we heard in the hearings but theres a different one if you will, if it concludes as we think it will, there will be a senate trial. Were going to take this opportunity to wrap up this portion of our coverage. Its going to continue on msnbc and nbc news. Com. Most of you will go back to the today show now. Well continue to watch the proceedings on the house floor. Well be back on the air when the debate of the actual articles of impeachment begin or if events warrant. For now im lester holt in new york. Good day, everyone. To the sena its expected to pass and the white house indicated President Trump intends to sign it to law. Hoda. Gabe gutierrez, thanks. A lot more to get to this morning, including this story. Christmas came early for someone in northeast ohio a single Mega Millions ticket matching all six numbers from last nights drawing was sold in the cleveland suburb of mentor, the jackpot, a cool 372 million. No word yet on who holds that Winning Ticket but if they decide to choose the onetime cash payment, thats 250 million. Hoda kotb. Can you imagine waking up, pulling out your wallet. Calling your lawyer, calling the police. Merry christmas. Lets turn back to the weather and get als forecast. Turns out i have a cousin in mentor. Th. I bet you do. They dont know it yet. Were looking at lake effect snow coming in, weve got Winter Weather advisories, lake effect snow warnings, soml squalls cou their way to the i95 corridor, the deadly storm moves out to sea but as it does its going to be bridging in much colder air, arctic air, and wind gusts, 35 to 40 miles per hour, throughout the northeast, but as it does its going to be bringing in much colder air, arctic air, and wind gusts, 35 to 40 miles per hour, throughout the northeast, down to washington, d. C. , probably be some airport delays, plus were looking at windchills, feels like 8 in detroit today, 9 in buffalo, and tomorrow morning, feel like one in altoona, 3 in new york, snowfall amounts generally 2 to 4 inches of snow in erie, pa to burlington, vermont. Airport delays down to buffalo were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds you can do it. Here we go, ha, ha now for the icing on the cake. Ahhh oooh huh do you think he just got neutered . Cause those notes are like, high good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Well see waves of rain today. Well take a break tomorrow as well as friday, and then there will be a new storm system approaching late saturday afternoon and well bringing us rain off and on throughout the day sunday and move out monday. There will be another system behind us to bring us some bay area rain and sierra know on Christmas Day. We are going to have more active weather in the forecast, going into the next several days, with temperatures in the upper 50s. Thats your latest weather, guys mr. Roker, thank you, still ahead here as the fbi joins the search for the missing mother and newborn baby in texas, we will hear from the womans parents what theyre saying to us about the mysterious circumstances surrounding their daughter and little granddaughters disappearance. Plus, well check in with ms. 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