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Testimonies and cross-examine. obviously this is a big step. democrats plan to bring this to a vote on thursday. dave and christine? >> we have more. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testified for more than ten hours. >> sources say vindman told lawmakers the white house's rough transcript was mostly accurate but that he would have made a couple of minor changes, one of them to this section where zelensky said he or she will look into the situation specifically the company you mention in the issue. according to vindman, instead of company zelensky said burris r

Correct we don't need the vote tomorrow. the court has indicated that we can proceed, as we have been proceeding. however, what jerry didn't mention is we are contemplating changing from what is essentially the investigatory phase of this matter into the open hearing public hearing phase of the consideration of whether or not there is evidence to believe that the president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. and in that public hearing, we want to make sure that everybody understands this is going to be due process. this is going to be fair. it's not going to be like the trial in the se...

Minority the right to call their own witnesses -- >> congressman, you can't say things that aren't true on this show! >> that is absolutely true. >> the minority never had the same rights as the majority to call witnesses or subpoena and admit it. >> did clinton -- was he able to have representation during the process? >> yes. but after the investigatory phase. >> was the minority at the time the democrats, were they able to call witnesses on their behalf and cross-examine. >> just like you will be able to when you get done with the investigation. you're not doing apples to apples. i wanted to...

>> we did, too. >> you did not. you had the starr investigation, which was done in private and then given to congress. >> president clinton at the time lied to a grand jury. once we proved that he had lied, then we proceeded to the impeachment inquiry vote and we set the rules at the time -- >> but after -- no, no, no. >> the rules clearly gave minority the right to call their own witnesses -- >> congressman, you can't say things that aren't true on this show! >> that is absolutely true. >> the minority never had the same rights as the majority to call witnesses or subpoena and admit it. >> di...

>> totally. >> this is really bad. this is wrong. you cannot use your federal law office to dig up dirt on your political opponent, even without the quid pro quo. >> congressman -- >> charlie, if you ever spend any time in a courtroom, you don't let people give an opening statement and then convict them on the opening statement. >> but this is not a courtroom. >> as you yourself said, it's not a grand jury, and that is not a courtroom. >> this is a political process, not a legal process. >> and so with the political process, you're trying to judge the president on an opening statement when you...