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You know how seniority works in the senate, jim. seniority goes to the anchorman. we will begin with you, the anchor men and women. jonathan kaye part. here we are. the test vote of what is possible in the united states senate will turn out to be the vote on a bipartisan commission, a completely bipartisan idea, a bipartisan commission to investigate january 6th. we will find out in that vote, exactly what is possible in the rest of the senate votes this year. >> you know, i thank you for giving me the seniority. it really should go to jim manly. he knows, basically all those capitals here on ...

But it's almost as if they don't know until the morning they see the folks arrive if ner going to no matter what. but on where the weekends in terms of the politics of this, i think carlos humilities put it this way in the times. reflects are now faced with the challenge of mounting a compelling case to the public that can cut through the political noise and generate even the barest of bipartisan consensus. knowing that the greater likelihood is that mr. trump will be acquitted in the republican-led senate. a very eloquent way of saying as i will say sim implicitically, the road got no easier ...

About a six person majority. so i expect all of these to go on party lines. unless for some reason they have someone that adds something that the democrats want. that's just the rules. and you know, i think pelosi, as we've been talking about over the last month or so, has set this up very well. and it is almost like she's walked them into a couple of traps, and we are where we are. >> this is a big moment. >> it is going to play out on tv today where people see this first vote in the impeachment inquiry. it is not authorized in the inquiry, until democrats insist, but it is pushing it forward...

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...

Table for open hearings, moving this process into the sunlight, which i've heard even from a lot of democrats, saying it is past time to do that, ali. >> you, yesterday, talked about nancy pelosi, when you said, is the vote really going to happen? you said, it's not going to happen if she doesn't have the votes, because nancy pelosi is a master vote counter. talk to me about her strategy. >> and it looks like she had some significant margin for error today. we knew going into today's vote, there were only about half a dozen democratic lawmakers who have yet to come in favor of some sort of imp...