Page 4 - Couldnt Stand It News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Success. and vourlof course the attempt smear lieutenantte colonel vindn backfired very badly. we'll get to the stage where the defenders of the president say, yes, it was a p quid pro quo, wt are you going to do about it, yes, i dido call the code red. then republicans will have to decide whether to say, yes, this abuse of power took place and, e are okay with ofit. >> and anne gearan joins us now, "washington post" white house correspondent who also covers thee state department and the pentagon, you knowe so many of these owwitnesses, masha yovanovitch, bill taylor, these senior ambassadors ...

This country through this nightmare. that's exactly what this vote shows today. i want to call up our whips, steve scalise. >> thank you, kevin. and when we talk about the vote i think it's important tohe not when you see that not only did every single republican reject this soviet style impeachment processov but we were even join by democrats who couldn't stand it anymore. if you look at where we are right now, we're at an important point in history. clearly there are people that we serve with that don't like the results of the 2016 election. that's their prerogative. but the country next yea...

Year? >> that's a fair argument. i think it is a fair argument. i think that impeachment is -- has always been a very -- it's a political death penalty, right? you don't want to exercise it, you want toer exercise it very cautiously and very carefully, which is why i think these hearings are important, and in some ways it's more satisfying if the voters were to vote him out. >> and anne, a lot of us have been watching mike pompeo's performance throughout this, on the phone call, refusing to acknowledge whenll he was first asked, validating the president, i was talking to one top official, very...

Garrett, i guess, first, on what we justrs saw, and the white hoe reaction. garrett? >> andrea, you saw an historic vote to move forward with this impeachment inquiry. a number of democrats who had been on the fence about doing so at all said they would be voting to open up this process, that even if they'rehi not willing t vote for impeachment articles yet, of courseor none have been drafted, that it was time to move this process forward. indeed, we could begin to see open hearings t as soon as the week after next. congress is out next week, in fact as soon as they wrap up this series of vote...

Open hearings as soon as possible. er remember, there will be intel committee hearings as laid out in the heresolution, then judiciary will have their own hearings as they draftei an article or articles, plural, of impeachment. there is a ton of work to be done, including funding the government, as you alluded to, all with very little time to do it with just two months remaining this year. >> as you point out, we all know how rapidly congress usually moves although this has moved more expeditiously than people expected. >> it has.ha >> and certainly more quickly than the president expected. kr...