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There is going to be a period for member questioning after these lengthy periods of staff questioning but i think the public will be impressed just how professional the questioning is. i'm just hoping we can avoid some of the circus tactics before the questioning ginz. >> can you give us a sense when those public hearings will start? >> we'd like to do them soon but there's still any number of witnesses we want to bring in for depositions and we want to do that before witnesses can align their stories. the challenge on timing is obviously some of these wnlss are doing their duty, they're follo...

I think we can expect that the relevant committees here, the judiciary committee in the house in particular, will probably get that maybe they should put their staff questioning on blast and let committee members follow up, but we shall see. we are also following the other congressional drama that has been unfolding over the last few days on friday, adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee, issued a subpoena to the director of national intelligence it happened late on friday night. we got this mysterious scant on details preweekend late-night news dump about a whistleblower ...

Staff is now defying a subpoena and refusing to testify. and so that is what happened in the house judiciary committee, with the help of some new rules allowing its lawyers to do the questioning. all future impeachment hearings, all future hearings under this impeachment inquiry will be conducted under those same rules. i think we can expect that the relevant committees here, the judiciary committee in the house in particular, will probably get that maybe they should put their staff questioning on blast and let committee members follow up, but we shall see. we are also following the other co...

To do this. this is dragging out. mr. lewandowski, i would encourage you to answer the questions fully, as he said he would do. you voluntarily come here even though we decide to throw a flawed subpoena at you. and the others, as well. i think as we go forward here we will see how this actually moves forward. but this is concerning to me, mr. chairman. we will take this for the this is concerning for me. it is not okay to overrun house minute rules. the five minute rule is a house rule. it's not up for interpretation by the chairman whenever he feels like. it's not debatable. you may not have ...

Staff questioning maybe you can get someplace. but even under the circumstances, given lewandowski in his approach to this and what he is doing, i can't imagine it's going to be fruitful. it's a terribly frustrating wasteful experience. calling roll call procedural votes is a good example of how our system is broken. >> harris: a little while ago i had on guy lewis, he worked in the doj with william barr, our attorney general. years and years ago. he said, "look, this will be a circus. you will go back and forth. at the end of the day, it's corey lewandowski who is really ready for this." if t...