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Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes on how to proceed with the Impeachment Inquiry of president donald trump. This new resolution maps ou...

Get noticeably harder to get any legislation through. so this is viewed as the key window to get legislation accomplished and what schumer would argue is that these bipartisan talks have happened for weeks and months, and they have suggested they're making good progress. and he's saying this first vote is simply a process vote to begin the debate. they don't have to finish the negotiations then but they have to allow to agree to the florida debate to occur. a lot of republicans say it is too premature to go that far. they need more time to negotiate, to finalize these complex details about a b...

>> well, i think it's the way that it's always been done in the past, and we've put it out there to the public, and the republicans can no longer say it's behind closed doors, even though they were behind the closed doors themselves. and i think it just helps to build the case, and it puts more pressure on the members of the senate, because as they see public opinion move in our direction, they will feel that pressure. >> okay. let's look at the vote this week, which took place making the impeachment inquiry official. your caucus, the democrats lost two votes. not a single republican voted in ...

Happened. you lost two democrats yesterday, not a single republican voted yes. if you couldn't win over one republican for a process vote, do you have any realistic hope of winning anyone over for an actual impeachment vote? if you don't, does this end up just looking like a partisan endeavor. >> unfortunately the president has done a tremendous job of dividing congress. you know, the constitution states what are misdemeanors and high crimes and it's a, b, c. it's abuse, betrayal and it's also the corruption. so many people have forgotten all the other charges. i sit on government oversight. t...

After the vote, a literal split screen with democrats and republicans holding dueling news conferences and what we heard sounded like lawmakers living in alternate universes. >> this is a solemn day in the history of our country when the president's misconduct has compelled us to continue to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. >> it is a sad day, it really is for this country, what the democrats have put our nation through, for now almost four years. >> so far we've seen damning evidence that the president abused his power. >> in all the hearings there's nothing compelling, nothing overw...