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Afternoon. you serve in the house and you will be marking up this impeachment resolution. tell us about it and what's going to happen the next 24 hours. >> absolutely. thank you for the opportunity to come before you and speak about this very important hearing at 3:00 on the rules committee. today we'll continue thehave be. the first step was to take testimony in a classified setting. we are moving forward setting, we know that our constituents are eager to hear or know and understand what has been happening and what these witnesses said and all of that information will be disclosed through tr...

Schiff's committee and to let the case play out there and then to give the house judiciary committee a more constrained role. and so, you know, i think it is a nod to schiff. it is a nod to his leadership. it is a nod to the work that he's done already to break this thing open, to bring forward the evidence that he has, and it will be the centerpiece of the development of the case against donald trump. but i also think it's important to know that the house judiciary committee still will play a critical role in drafting those articles and in probably being the place where the president's lawyer...

Donald trump. but i also think it's important to know that the house judiciary committee still will play a critical role in drafting those articles and in probably being the place where the president's lawyers get the first chance to make that case directly before congress. >> i think that's fair to say. and would you also, if you were advising this process, would you recommend the further use of outside counsel, something that was actually briefly successful for that committee? >> yeah, i think both committees -- i think both the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee should make ...

>> with a big change. the hearing with corey lewandowski that kind of went off the rails and came back on the rails when barry burke, a very skilled lawyer, questioned lewandowsky, that part of it came at the end of the hearing, brian. and the hard core people were still watching. what this resolution says today is that the expert questioning will come at the beginning of the hearing, in the first 90 minutes of those hearings, 45 for the democrats, 45 for the republicans. i think that's going to put this expert questioning front and center in these hearings and make them more effective and mor...

Procedurally different up till now from the clinton experience, which is the last we have to compare this to, and does this roadmap, this document, this bill you've seen, this resolution call for anything different than the procedure followed during the clinton impeachment? >> well, to the extent that it's different, it actually creates a much more extensive process for the president to tell his side of the story. remember with the clinton impeachment, basically everything happened in private. ken starr then coughed up this huge report in october. there were no hearings on the charges that sta...