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Testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, so help you god? let the record show the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. please don't that each of your written statements will be entered into the record in its entirety. accordingly, i ask that you summarize your testimony in ten minutes. to help you stay within that time, there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow, you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red, it signals your ten...

Much for the opportunity to appear. my name is noah feldman. >> the witness will proceed. >> i serve as the felix frankfurt professor of law at the harvard law school. >> i seek recognition. >> the gentleman will suspend. the time is the witness's. >> the privilege motion needs to be recognized. you can call it not a privilege. >> in between witnesses it may be recognized. not once i recognize the witness. the witness will proceed. we will entertain the motion after the first witness. >> my job is to study and teach the constitution from its origins until the present. i am here today to descri...

If you're using bad arguments it's because you don't have good ones. and he did get john thune to sign the condemnation of the process. that's an easier vote and a way to get people to commit early. >> you know what, there is a process. it's called impeachment. you call the roll. you put articles of impeachment or one article of impeachment before the house and they vote. it's a privilege motion. and you get a majority vote and the president's impeached forever, forever in the history books he is impeached, a little asterisk, impeached. republicans were prepared yesterday to do anything to too...

Recognized. >> the point of order from a parliamentary standpoint is a privilege motion so i have a point of order, mr. chairman. >> what's your point of order? >> rule 2f of the committee rules have been violated and the chairman has received a letter, which would outline that that particular rule requires a three-day notice, mr. chairman. and because the notice was put out on june 10th at 5:48, this committee's rules have been violated. now, the chairman may be able to overrule this point of order but i would like to clarify that if, indeed, this committee overrules this point of order, then...

Than the president. paul wright doesn't strike me as a kind of guy, on his way outcome along the by, paul ryan paul ryan. who would be keen on this. how do you get a vote on impeachment without getting paul ryan's nod? >> we hope it doesn't have to come to that. obviously this is the first step tonight, but it doesn't require consent from the speaker. it's a privilege motion, so what we put in today was not privileged. it goes in and gets referred to the judiciary committee. but starting tomorrow, we can bring it up as a privileged motion. >> laura: what does that mean, for people who don't un...