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The house judiciary committee called then ken starr who is the independent counsel investigating president clinton and had ken stark to questions and then you're david kendall who was president clinton's attorney turn and ask questions of ken starr. that was a remarkable moment. republic curtains are seeing who is the accuser if we were to follow that model from 1998? as it adam schiff question mike is at the whistle-blower? who could we pose questions too. here's the dirty secret if you get down into the nitty-gritty of this resolution it gives pretty good latitude to the house intelligence c...

In the clinton impeachment you had a special prosecutor. in this case, the special prosecutor in effect is the intelligence committee and the hearings we're conducting with the two other committees. so that stage, which would be comparable to the mueller investigation, the obstruction of justice issues, is the part that is done in private for investigation reasons. so that's what's really different. the special prosecutor in effect is the intel committee. >> you make an important point. i understand the difference but i'm glad you laid it out for people. i wonder if you see any merit to republ...

>> this is somewhere where political strategies are meeting a painting. please go on. >> en route to both of these arguments is -- let's take it to its logical extension. we're not at preliminary hearing stage. preliminary hearing stage means you've gathered enough evidence that you can start to talk about what you're going to prove. what the democrats have been saying all along, which i think is the right -- true on the process is, we're inquirying right now. you don't get to go to the fbi when they're investigating a crime and say i get to sit in on all your witness interviews and i get to c...

I think it's clear that this bill could very well be much more of a political liability to them than a political benefit. >> neera, i have seen tax legislation rushed in the past. once it gets into the legislative process -- not at the hearing stage, where people are examining the issues in hearings and ways and means in the finance committee. but once you get into the committee actually voting and moving on the floor, i've seen them move fast in the past for one reason. and that was to stay ahead of the lobbyists. they would move fast because they had provisions in there that they knew the co...

Legislative process -- not at the hearing stage, where people are examining the issues in hearings and ways and means in the finance committee. but once you get into the committee actually voting and moving on the floor, i've seen them move fast in the past for one reason. and that was to stay ahead of the lobbyists. they would move fast because they had provisions in there that they knew the corporate lobbyists would not like, closing of certain loopholes that corporate lobbyists would not like. and the reason they were rushing it was so that the corporate lobbyists would not then get their c...