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Cooperate with this impeachment investigation until the speaker holds an official floor vote as we heard there, leader make c-- >> it might look like the shrug emoji. there's no rule that says the house has to do a formal vote to continue what they're doing on impeachment, if and when there are articles of impeachment to be voted on that's a separate step. there is precedent here, the bill clinton impeachment, there was a formal vote to start that process. that's what house republicans are calling for. house democrats look at that and say this is essentially a stalling tactic. this is a proces...

Rudy giuliani as well. but republicans themselves are kind of in the dark about what additional shoes will drop. >> david, we keep hearing this interesting talking point on right wing media which is there's not even an impeachment inquiry happening right now because there was no formal vote. she never held a formal vote. therefore the impeachment can't happen. >> kevin mccarthy is going to make that a central line of attack, continue to do so against. st pelosi. they believe -- the republicans believe this process argument and i believe steve scalise brought this up in a members on the republi...

Wasn't an abuse of power. i'm not saying that the burden of proof is on the president but you have help understand the situation. >> i still get back to what we talked about two days ago, which is at the end of the day, what was this hearing about yesterday before the intelligence committee in the house? mostly it was about process. >> you didn't want us to see this because you knew it was bad for him and that's not what you're supposed to be doing. >> okay. and the justice department made a call on this with regard to executive privilege -- or the white house did with regard to executive priv...

Executive privilege -- or the white house did with regard to executive privilege and the justice department made a call in connection with whether or not it satisfied the particulars of the statute. you may disagree with the answer, but there's a ten-page off of legal counsel opinion that represents the view of the government about what the law is with regard to the issue. >> right. >> and in any event, after all of that and all this process, the whistle-blower complaint has been released and the transcript of the call has been released. so what you're left with is a process argument about try...

Answ guy answer law. so you don't have a high crimes or -- >> be a bus of power is also what you here. >> and then the narrative shifted. we went through the trail of those four and we have now landed in essentially a process argument about whether or not we got the whistleblower's complaint in time and also what the activities were within the white house about trying to conceal what was happening here. >> and you can -- the house can impeach based on crime or abuse of power. i think we have a crime here. bribery does apply to an american public official if he is the person soliciting some sor...