we have the facts, we're ready. now we have the facts, we're ready. for later today. >> that was house speaker nancy pelosi who in about half an hour is expected to announce that the democrats are beginning a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump according to cnn sources, a move which right now is backed by 161 house democrats. but not all of them. let's chew over all of this with our experts. there is the risk that we've heard from republicans that if they do this before the president releases the transcript, and this is probably one of the reasons he's releasing it tomorrow, they look like they're rushing to judgment. but there's also the fact we know from rudy giuliani's own statements he told the ukrainians to investigate the bidens. >> first of all, why was the president's personal attorney in ukraine at all, in the middle of this? if the president believes joe biden or his son broke the law, you have an fbi. why not have the doj look into