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Investigation mean impeachment? >> it could mean impeachment. it could mean the exercise of inherpt contempt which would be a privilege resolution, coming to the house floor. it would summon the individual at hand, in this case probably the director of national intelligence, mr. maguire. the sergeant of arms would be asked to find him, bring him to the floor. he would then potentially be tried either on the floor or in the judiciary committee. that could be the next step and what we want from the director of national intelligence is the complaint by the whistle-blower. the inspector general of...

>> i like what mark meadows is saying hey, look, if you want to work in a bipartisan way to take away of the ability of a president to declare the president, great. the current law on the books right now allows the president to declare such an emergency. that's why we have had dozens of them. they don't want to do that they are trying to flog the president. i do think it will pass in the senate. structure you had as a privilege resolution the senate actually has to vote on it. if the president then vetoes it. they don't have the super majority to override the president. brian: need 20 for that...

That would then -- this would prompt a vote in the senate. the white house is trying to maintain the republican support. i mean, you said there's one republican. so far they're doing pretty well. and the likelihood is you're not going to get this veto proof two-thirds that you need in both chambers. would you still consider this a success? >> yeah, you're right. i mean, i worked on this for about six weeks with the legislative council in congress. and it's a privilege resolution, so we can pass it in the house. it will then go to the senate. has to have a vote in the senate. we think that we c...

We got breaking news. house democrats have just introduced a resolution to halt president trump's emergency declaration to fund his border wall. nancy pelosi will brief reporters in about 20 minutes on all of it. we are live on the hill. how is this going down? >> you should think of this as a constitutional emergency break on the president's desire to invoke a national emergency here. here is how it will work. it was introduced today. this will move fast. it will get reported out of committee. moves to the floor. it was introduced with 222 co-sponsors. that's enough, if it doesn't get a singl...

Privilege resolution. they can respond to this in such a way condemning this and i think we can all assume that would be the case, that senate would have to take it up. it is a simple majority move. that means to pass in the senate, they need to pass a handful of republicans willing to go on the record with their votes. they condemn this action by donald trump. can they get a veto for majority in probably not. they can force the president to use his first ever actual veto on this measure which would be a strong symbolic defeat. we got tom tillis with that statement. over the next few weeks, i ...