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Chairman, also denied republican claims that impeachment rules are unfair. andy, let's start with the notion of, where is the crime? what is the crime? as congressman ratcliff was pointing out, do you have any witnesses yet? we haven't seen any. that say there's evidence of a crime? with the exception of maybe bill taylor who says quid pro quo. >> andy: my head is about to explode. >> harris: wasn't my question? [laughter] >> andy: just watching all this! [laughs] they can have -- what is it, 330 million people in the country? they can all read the transcript and they can all give a different ...

Your honesty. joining me now from washington, d.c., political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larson. great to have you with us on this friday. let's begin with yesterday's vote in the house, and an historic day, to formalize the impeachment rules and procedures as they go forward. what were your big take-aways and where does the process now stand and go from here? >> well, i think the biggest take-away for me is that the republicans for a really long time have been saying that this impeachment inquiry hasn't had a vote. that this is a normal process. well, now it has had a vote. a...

Republican. we expect him to vote for impeachment. do any of the retiring republican members of the house, will hurd, for example, the other 20 or so have announced they're retiring. do any of them vote for the impeachment rules? that would be a shocking thing for the white house to see any republicans. i predict it would probably launch a tweet storm. meanwhile, there's nothing on the president's agenda today, as i think was pointed out. he's doing thes same thing we' doing. he's sitting there watching. >> they're watching carefully. of course, as there may be a few republicans whoma stray, t...

Ask questions of witnesses. republicans would finally be able to subpoena witnesses in this whole thing. the president's lawyers will be allowed to cross-examine witnesses, but with one big caveat. democrats will have the "discretion" to deny this right if they believe the white house is stonewalling or providing witnesses or documents on that, rather. on the house until committee will lead the first phase of public testimony. that last point i think it's pretty critical, because the language of the resolution does not provide details about the president's legal rights, while the house until c...

Know if this has gotten enough attention yet, these rules if they pass tomorrow, they call donald trump's bluff. and they say in this process, keep stonewalling at your own peril. we wanted to give you that special breakdown. coming up, when we talk about impeachment rules, these are live pictures of lawmakers still debating them in preparation of the big vote tomorrow. this is historic. we went digging in the crates to give something special when we come back. a little help seeing it.