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The rest of his party has been on impeachment. the expectations, particularly in peterson's case, we leave them alone and say we get where you are on this one and they'll likely lose those individuals. so those are the two individuals that won't go along on this one. we've been talking about it throughout the coast of the last couple of hours. the real possibility not a single republican joins. that doesn't mean all the members of the conference are comfortable with what we've been seeing coming out of news reports and depositions. but this has very much turned into a red team/blue team type o...

Lawmakers to see where they are on this. any chance a republican votes with democrats? and what about john bolton, if he is subpoenaed. do you expect him to defy that? >> if any republicans vote with the democrats, it will be in the numbers of one or two. this is not a vote to impeach. this is a process vote. there's a little wiggle room to explain that. if it does not match with the final vote that members take. as far as bolton goes, it's c significant that this letter of invitation has gone out on thursday. but it's an invitation. and based on the way that charles cub kupperman has been res...

>> so let me ask you this. as you and i established off the top of the interview, if this was -- this is a process vote. this just allows and determines the rules. your two democratic colleagues who voted against it, congressman jeff vann drew and collin peterson, what's the rationale for voting against it if this is just the rules. this isn't a statement on whether or not you think the president should be impeached or not. >> well, in fairness, i think you would probably have to ask both of them. for me, this was a process question. but there's no question that when i go home to rochester, ne...

The vote to watch will be when we get to that stage of voting for articles of impeachment. democrats did not push as hard as they could at this point knowing that we have such a long road to go before articles of impeachment are actually voted on and that any republican who would have stuck their neck out now to vote for this process will have spend however long that period ends up being, being hammered by the president and the president's allies. not as much a con certaintied effort to get republican votes on the issue. this was a process vote and now we go back to the investigation. how is t...

Line debate. think of this has a road map to how they want to conduct the rest of the inquiry. it is lead by the intel committee, and another round of public hearings tr, and then the judiciary committee will decide on a number of impeachment articles. we don't know exactly how many. and then it will go back to the fullous. this vote this morning will be something of a test vote, can democrats keep everyone in the party in line. there are half a dozen that have not been supported thus far. this is purely a process vote. that sort of thing, but republicans will try to make the case that this is...