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What the testimony -- they can't defend a lot of what the testimony is, that rudy giuliani was running a shadow foreign policy, that people appointed by the trump administration were raising objections saying, this is wrong, it might be illegal, and it has to stop. you can't defend that. so your point is let's have an election. >> if you go back and look at this, the turning point will have been that date, i think it was september 25th, when the memorandum about the transcript was released. that is the turning point we will never turn back from again, because it laid out in great detail with t...

Cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house. take us outside the deliberations there. are they nervous now that the democrats have taken this vote, which they demanded and now they don't like. >> reporter: yes, they did request the vote. but now, john, they're still complaining about the process here saying essentially that this is unfair to the president, talking about some of these proceedings that are happening behind closed doors. they expect some of them will continue to be behind closed doors before they go public. even though democrats have pushed back on that saying this is like a grand j...

Will, and they are on a path they're not going to veer from. >> yes, and you can't underestimate how much the audience is public opinion as senate republicans as they are going to be watching these hearings and questioning whether or not they feel it is an impeachable offense or it is the middle ground, which is what you're hearing from, say, a rob portman which i call the yeah but. yeah, it's bad but it's not impeachable. >> we're watching the republicans and the handful of senators in different states. they don't want those senators to be tempted, even briefly, to endorse this process. >> no...

Reconsider is laid upon the table. >> that vote falling almost exclusively along party lines. again, not a vote to impeach the president but a vote to set the ground rules around the now continuing impeachment proceedings. president trump reacting in realtime on twitter, of course, calling it, quote, the greatest witch hunt in american history. the speaker, you saw her with the gavel there. moments before the voting began, she was on the floor telling republicans they're just frightened. >> today the house takes the next step forward as we establish the procedures for open hearings conducted b...

White house in order to provide this testimony, and so that's why the republicans have not been able to really attack any of the substance of this. we saw them starting to shift just in what they said right now after the vote rather than just saying, this process is horrible, it needs to move into the public realm. they say now the process can't be fixed at all no matter what. >> steve scalise trying to make the point that nothing has changed since the beginning of the year when speaker pelosi said the impeachment needs to be bipartisan. well, a lot has changed. he's right about that, the two ...