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The hong kong government bears primary responsibility. jillian: pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong have been going on for 6 months. rob: a live look at capitol hill where week 2 of public impeachment hearings begin in just a few hours. jillian: four witnesses will appear before the house intelligence committee today and griff jenkins is live with what we can expect this time around. >> reporter: buckle up. we have nine witnesses over the next three days, two this morning, two this afternoon, similar to last week. at 9:00 am they will gavel in after swearingen. the opening statement, 45 ...

Correspondent. joining me now is senator haronu. this strikes me as so similar in some ways to the kavanaugh confirmation hearing. you played a major role on the democratic side questioning judge kavanaugh. is the military situation parallel or different in that he's going to be the number two in command advising the president? i could not over emphasize the importance of his role. what if he's confirmed? how do you proceed? >> in the case of justice kavanaugh or his nomination, there was not a thorough investigation. the fbi subsequent investigation was a sham because it was so limited and ce...

>> thank you for that. kristen welker and julia ainsley. and i'll keep you posted on the markets. we're now 630 points lower on the dow. almost 2.5%. i want to get to mike mem alley with reaction from capitol hill. this is where there is dissent at capitol hill. there are some republicans who didn't think this was i good idea, pretty much all democrats didn't think it was a good idea and it is noteworthy that the chairman of the house intel committee, devin nunes did not even share the information with his counterpart at senate. so congress is not speaking with one voice on this memo? >> no....

Bush closely during this point in the iraq war when general petraeus took over. what are you seeing similar in david petraeus to what did he did in iraq and what's different? >> it's very interesting. the point you made a moment ago, people taking shots at the strategy and at him. remember during the surge he did not have support from the chain of command. he had people up and down both on the civilian side and the military side questioning what he was doing. that's a big difference here even if he does get people questioning what he's doing. the conventional wisdom in the darkest days in 2006...

Completely resolved yet but i think one thing that general petraeus will be clear on is these things have to move together. fight the terrorists, fight the counter tirm but build the rest of it, as well. >> you were covering president bush closely during this point in the iraq war when general petraeus took over. what are you seeing similar in david petraeus to what did he did in iraq and what's different? >> it's have interesting. the point you made a moment ago, people taking shots at the strategy and at him. remember during the surge he did not have support from the chain of command. he had...