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Reporters question lawmakers after private hearings. arthel: in the open sessions will republican lawmakers continue to attack the process or will they begin to build a defense for the president? >> it's hard to say right now. i think they're going to continue attacking process probably. representative nunes, who is the lead republican on intelligence, has come on your network many times to talk about how the president did nothing wrong but also talk about you how democrats have just been wanting to impeach president trump from the start, calling it a ukraine hoax and we've heard this from a f...

Tone, what can we expect from the hearings? >> i would expect it to be incredibly partisan. i would expect to hear a good bit of grandstanding from both sides, a lot of outrage from republicans, a lot of outrage from democrats, but against the president and we'll he se we'llh more information we get from the public hearings. the reason sometimes lawmakers prefer private hearings is not only to protect the person involved and protects classified information, but also because it tends to be more productive when it's not grandstanding in front of a public audience. arthel: but the republicans wan...

Speaker pelosi yesterday telling bloomburg, quote, i would assume there would be public hearings in november. i don't know what the timetable would be. the truth will set us free. more on this now is kate erby, congressional reporter forks mcclaspy. tell us more about how the white house is preparing or bracing for impeachment. >> so we don't have a total clear answer on they that. we've seen a couple of different tactics they've taken but of course with this white house, a lot comes down to president trump. we've known for a while that he likes to take the lead on his own messaging, he likes ...