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to participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc? or was does it do? is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an impeachment vote. i want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as we re at the top of the 11:00 hour on the east coast in washington, you re watching msnbc s special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill.c this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. what you see on your veen is a countdown that will result in proceeding to thatsu vote. so the current count you see on your screen has not yet arrived under the house procedure on the phone. what i can tell you, in a matter of moments when you sigh this count run down,u within the ne nine minutes, we expect the house to, proceed then to the actual vote on the impeachment resolution and trules. we also are told in ....
Geoff, our cameras briefly caught you trying to briefly catch the speaker who obviously wasn t going to take live questions. there s that shot. what s happening now, as the congress continues to work on two tracks, passing these rules and also conducting these private depositions? reporter: right. well, two floors beneath us in the basement on the house side, house investigators are deposing tim morrison, outgoing russia director for the white house, we learned yesterday he was stepping down, he will be the third white house official to step downth from their official capacity. the last two did that in part so they would be more free in what they re able to tell house investigators. as thisou closed door investigation proceeds, they re getting closer and closer inside the white house. they ve already got the view of what happened in o ukraine. they talked to foreign service officers who were there as this ukraine pressure campaign came to be. ....
Likely, if not the white house counsel, someone who hashe been working very closely with the white house vecounsel. of course, the leader there. that would be my anticipation. i think you did hit the nail on the head here, ari. right now the administration feels it has a strong argument to make to say, look, administration officials cannot testify because they would undoubtedlyld be testifying abo material they re arguing is protected by executive privilege. that argument getsby tougher to make once this vote takes place. thatke doesn t mean they re not going tosn try to block testimo. for example, all eyes are going to be on john bolton. if he s subpoenaed, will he show up? his attorney is saying he s not going to show up unless he s subpoenaed. what legal recourse would the administration have given that this vote would basically say, look, the white house could bring its, own counsel into the proceedings, ari. senator, you look like you might want to get ngin. int wanted to note t ....