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Committee, democratic side, two of them, and here on the republican side, presenting their cases. you could see and feel, almost palpable, frustration and partisan tension we know exists and see and hear exists come through in kind of a personal way. with a lot of this questioning. the key thing to remember, this is a formality. they didn't have to do it. this is expected of the judiciary committee to present their case for impeachment and now the real work begins or continues because it has been going on behind the scenes, actually drafting articles of impeachment, the injury chair, jerry nad...

Democratic side, stephen castor, they will make their arguments, on the democrat side in favor of impeachment, the republican side clearly against impeachment. >> 30 minutes is a long time, actually, for a lawyer to present a matter before congress, having testified before congress and prepared five-minute statements, 30 minutes is a long time. they do have at least from the majority perspective, a very lengthy report to base his statements on and so he's really going to want to, barry berke, to go through the constitutional grounds for impeachment in depth and it will really be -- i'm interes...

He'll bring this historic session to order. go ahead. >> i think that's -- you just hit the nail on the head. we're talking about the specifics of what we're going to hear but as we wait for them to actually start, it is history. every one of these hearings are a milestone in something few people witness because it doesn't happen that much in history. this is the ultimate of congress using its power to try to put the executive branch, the president of the united states, in check and it is happening in, as you said, tribal partisan times and that is what we're likely to witness in this hearing,...

Bills that the senate has not taken up. we also expect the president to do his job even as this impeachment investigation takes place. so that means keeping his word on passing background checks. he said he would give us his position on that. we haven't yet seen that. that means funding the government so people don't have to worry over the holidays if they're going to get paid. we're going to do our job. he should also do his. >> i don't know if you were judiciously following the president's twitter feed yesterday. he kind of suggested whatever on impeachment. he seems almost resigned to being...

Just a lot of coffee. >> a lot of coffee for all of us. let's talk about strategy a little bit. first on the democratic side, adam schiff is a former screen writer while he was an attorney out in california. he knows how to play the narrative game. he starts with 45 minutes of questions for the witnesses. what do you think he's learned from, say, corey lewandowski and from the mueller hearings, where bob mueller refused to read his own report out loud. >> big difference. those were hostile witnesses. corey lewandowski was trying to make a point. robert mueller wanted his report to be his repor...