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To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. What you see on your veen is ...

Those things aren't happening now, and i think this is all political, and i think it's a situation where sadly the speaker lost control of her own conference. >> you have said you have not read all the depositions. >> i haven't been able to. >> that's right. we're supposedly going to see them before then. have you closed the door completely to approving an article of impeachment? >> you never close the door completely to anything like this, but again, we just adopted a process that every single republican said was unfair. we didn't do the clinton process, the nixon process. so i mean, i think ...

People can see the witnesses, can see who they are, what bias they , bring, what credibility they have and what they know, ultimately they're the ones that can put pressure on the senators to say, look, the facts support this. >> this is something we're hearing from republicans who don'tin have a strong take on ts which is to say -- there are republicans we've spoken to in washington, not attaching names to this, said, look, we'd rather there's no impeachment to deal e with. their concern is that televised hearings with people with a chest full ofle medals and diplomatic history could actually...

What does the nixon model teach folks here today? >> well, first of all, the nixon process was very different and most of the investigation had happened and a lot of it was public so the public knew about the enemy's list and the public knew that there was a taping system and the public knew there was an insider named john dean that was a part of the cover-up and it was a saturday night massacre that was a public event that got democrats and republicans say there was an inquiry and there was a lot in the air already whereas now the investigation is just starting and so what i expect to see is ...

Number one, he made it clear he doesn't want to testify before congress. he said there's no point of it. he's not going to go beyond what's in his testimony. i hope this is my late statement about it. quite clear he's laying a marker down. he doesn't want to testify before congress. the report speaks for itself. this was an important inflection point in the career of this special counsel investigation. it's now completely over. the report, largely ended it. he had some finishing up to do. now he's no longer or shortly will no longer be the special counsel. he goes back to private life. the sec...