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Republican erosion, at least the kind that would be admitted to a journalist. >> not quite at this point. i think that republican leadership is gearing up for a fight with democrats and trying to keep all of their members in line. the news that we learned today about congressman jim jordan being added to the intelligence committee was a key data point in that respect because it puts one of the president's most strident defenders on the committee that will be conducting the impeachment hearings. republicans had been griping early on at the decision to sort of centralize this inquiry in the inte...

Your beat, if you are sensing any republican erosion, at least the kind that would be admitted to a journalist. >> not quite at this point. i think relationship leadership is gearing up for a fight with democrats and trying to keep all of their members in line. the news that we learned today about congressman jim jordan being added to the intelligence committee was a key data point in that respect, because it puts one of the president's most strident defenders on the committee that will be conducting the impeachment hearings. republicans had been griping on the decision to centralize this inqu...

Behavior in these hearings. but that's not the case with rudy giuliani and the trump lawyers. >> no, it's not. and i think this vul very clear. the president will be given every right to intervene, but he won't be given that right if he decides that he will deny the committee and by extension, the public itself, a legitimate information. there's some other things they've done in these rules, i think, that are interesting. one is the committees that are being excluded from this process. they include the oversight committee and the foreign affairs committee. they're not part of this at all. and ...

But that's not the case with rudy giuliani and the trump lawyers. >> no, it's not. and i think this rule is very clear. the president will be given every right to intervene, but he won't be given that right if he decides that he will deny the committee and, by extension, the public itself, legitimate information. there's some other things they've done in these rules, i think, that are interesting. one is the committees that are being excluded from this process. they include the oversight committee and the foreign affairs committee. they're not part of this at all. and guess what, there are a c...

It allows this inquiry to move forward. as karine was starting to talk about, nancy pelosi is shaping the way this will go much like the managers tonight in the world series games will select their lineups and lay out their strategy, what she's done here is selected her starting pitcher. it will be adam schiff. the next stage of this will go through the intel committee. they will have the public hearings. they will question witnesses in public. they will produce a report. and only then will they hand things over to the judiciary committee, which since time immemorial has been the most partisan...