Confrontation Rights News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> its unusual bill to get a surprise when you can sculpt the proceeding the way they have done it now. schiff has tried to analogize what he is doing care to the grand journey and he has had these witnesses interviewed so you would think that there would not be much departure from obviously what they have already said. this proceeding is orchestrated so the republicans don't have a lot of confrontation rights, that they can have some questions but they are not going to be able to bring witnesses and from left field and drop surprises into this particular d there shouldn't be much surprise at ...

About criminality. the president keeps complaining about he wants confrontation rights and other rights that go along with a criminal setting. but for impeachment purposes, congress is looking at whether or not high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed. that's a political judgment that's left up to congress by the constitution. but the clear case, the case that everyone has always agreed would support impeachment would be if the president engaged in outright criminality. and here we see bribery and campaign finance violations. >> so dave ehrenberg, do you see criminality here? and what ...

He suggested, confrontation rights, and that doesn't allow for hiding behind anonymity and it certainly doesn't preclude full and extensive cross examination of the basis of the whistleblower's complaint. >> in many ways it seems choreographed to me. they bring out the so-called whistleblower, they bring this person out, they know more than you and i about the information they're collecting. the republicans have no idea what's been going on, it's been handled by one party and one party staff. not only do they know about it behind the screen, but they've had a heads up even before the whistlebl...

He suggested, confrontation rights, and that doesn't allow for hiding behind anonymity and it certainly doesn't preclude full and extensive cross examination of the basis of the whistleblower's complaint. >> in many ways it seems choreographed to me. they bring out the so-called whistleblower, they bring this person out, they know more than you and i about the information they're collecting. the republicans have no idea what's been going on, it's been handled by one party and one party staff. not only do they know about it behind the screen, but they've had a heads up even before the whistlebl...