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And assuming the vote goes as expected and it looks like it will, if trump is impeached, that's when the real trial will start, and that's when the republican-led senate deliberating whether trump should be removed from office will happen. which requires a 2/3 vote. this week the senate put out its 2020 schedule and you might notice january is missing from the schedule. the senate leadership citing, quote, uncertainty for the floor schedule at the start of the year. and in their defense there's a lot of uncertainty over what to expect. joining me now is a member of the senate who's going to pl...

Latest piece, abigail, in which you report that democrats updated this month's floor schedule to keep lawmakers around in order to paint the president in a corner. so, what's that about? >> yeah. so, what you saw is at the beginning of last week, they changed the floor schedule to really make sure that democrats are here over the week of december 16th. so, even as congressman quigley said, you know, that sort of december 20th date that people are kind of floating out there is hoping to have a floor date but before then. one other thing i've kind of heard from a number of sources, and this isn'...

Judiciary committee will hold its second impeachment inquiry where you can expect a trial like atmosphere. there's going to be presentations from both a majority and minority counsel, from both the intelligence committee and judiciary comittee. it now appears likely there will be a full house vote on impeachment before the end of the year. and assuming the vote goes as expected and it looks like it will, if trump is impeached, that's when the real trial will start, and that's when the republican led senate deliberating whether trump will be removed from office should happen. this week the sena...

The senate right now. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told senior democrats if you push for the release of kavanaugh's documents relate together bush administration, that mcconnell will delay the vote until before the midterm elections. he controls the senate floor schedule. are you concerned that your efforts will backfire? >> good question. i am concerned that the republican leadership will use the kavanaugh nomination in a very cynically manipulative way for political purposes. the ruse of delaying it because we are doing our constitutional responsibility, asking for all the docu...

Immigration bills that move forward in the future. >> to that point, your colleague congressman costello was on our air earlier today saying there could be another discharge petition in the event this compromise bill ultimate edoes fail. is that your sense of how events might unfold? and would you be willing to sign on to such a petition if in fact this compromise doesn't go forward? >> first of all, inth think tha bipartisanship is too often lost here. i think finding a bipartisan solution is finding an american solution. we are going to find every parliamentary opportunity to bring a bill up...