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First. the group released a column in "the washington post" writing this in part. quote, you don't hold up a majority priority of the country and millions of jobs as some form of leverage. the infrastructure bill is not a political football. back with us tonight, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist foyer "the washington post," amy stoddard, veteran washington reporter. a.b., because you are fluent in congress, for the members of our audience, and maybe your host, can you please explain what is going on? >> okay. without getting too much into confusing process detail, they are hav...

Historica historical precedent. you obviously s there's a recognition if you want to have the process fight, democrats have made clear, there will be public hearings, there will be more closed door depositions, then there will be public hearings. if the house votes to impeach, there will be a very public trial. i think right now republicans are trying to unify around a message. for them, it's not substance, it's process. >> the republicans are complaining this is being done behind closed doors and that it's an impeachment inquiry. they are right in the sense that in the clinton impeachment inq...

For the white house it's going to become increasingly complicated to kind of put the horse back in the barn. >> one point about the debate tonight that relates to this is the extent to which other democrats in addition to the moderators pressure biden on these questions about ukraine, especially with hunter biden going out doing a television interview saying it was poor judgment to serve on the board of that company in ukraine. the president and his allies are making this a process fight right now, and how the democrats are doing what they're doing. no one's really defending the president othe...

You by a long shot the full story of what happened yesterday. >> bill: griff jenkins leaves our coverage live on the hill now. let's beginning there. griff, good morning. >> good morning. if you thought the impeachment inquiry was intense, buckle up because just over my shoulder you have congressman mike mccaul, republican who is the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee. talking and ranting about this process and unfairness. he actually says he spoke to the foreign affairs committee chairman democrat eliot engel saying they may try to work out something. the point is clear, lawmaker...

And he has an argument to say look, we've been transparent here. i put out the call with president zelensky. we put out the whistleblower complaint. what are democrats doing? holding these hearings in secret. adam schiff is selectively deciding what information to release to the public and what information to keep secret. also then you add on the element of the fact the whistleblower went to him and he lied about that and the whistleblower has a bias against the president. >> bill: melanie, what are you hearing in congress? >> no indication that speaker nancy pelosi is going to open an inquiry...