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The committee is expected to vote to approve the report tomorrow along party lines. Then on wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing. The hearing will feature legal scholars rather than actual witnesses to the ukraine scandal. To focus on the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president. Politico writes for the week of december 16th, if the dems want to impeach before the end of the year, wed have to see articles of impeachment this week. Remember, it took the Judiciary Committee only three days in 1998 to draft the articles of impeachment. Joining me now fro...

Family. so it's not a theory. it's, in fact, my mother. >> nia, the guy tears up talking about his hate mother. it seemed like an emotional moment. why the rush by the press to play it again and again and again and turn it into some sort of viral event which has a potentially huge impact on the campaign. >> that's a captivating moment. i have to say, i was down at the camera again so i could see it again. it's moving every time i see it. this whole idea of whether or not it will change the campaign, everybody is thinking what happened with hillary clinton, muskie in '72 when he cried after the...

>> well, i don't know how you can change science. >> to your point about dwindling resources in newsroom. again, i don't think it would take an investigative team to buy the book ron paul wrote in 2007. again, i wonder why this is being brought up so late in the campaign. >> i think those kinds of things probably should have been brought up sooner. the dynamics of these campaigns, look, we saw the same thing happen with rick perry's books where folks as soon as he got in started looking at that. that book had been out for a year. you certainly had instances reporters have dug through mitt romn...

Voters don't care. >> i'm wondering whether the media interpretation what happens will be more important. expectations campaign, santorum finishes third, ron paul, how much is the media take and spin going to influence the way this is all reported? >> i mean, it will matter a lot. but again a week later we'll be onto something else, new hampshire. some candidates are peeling away from here to go right to south carolina. it will have something of a lasting effect for two or three or four days and then we'll switch out to new hampshire. >> those two or three or four days could affect new hampshi...

>> rachel streitfeld, what do you glean on the trail that reporters dipping in and out might miss. >> i was based in new hampshire four months. that really gave me the opportunity to delve bought state. i did a lot of shoe leather reporting, enterprise reporting. i saw all the candidates through the state. i got a lot of contacts. i could see if there was a democratic tracker that would also ask the health care question. i would see the different way they handle questions and set up for events, which gave you insight. some use a lot of lighting, some are more low key. that was interesting to s...