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Through this public process. should articles of impeachment be forthcoming from the judiciary committee? then there will be a question and impeachment, the vote on impeachment is simply a question as to whether we believe there's a reasonable suspicion that the constitution was undermined and that the president abused his powers, and then whether or not the senate should take that up and decide whether or not, indeed, the president is guilty of the charges that the house might advance. so it is a multi-tiered process. but it's not as easy, sometimes, to be able to convey that to the average ci...

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...

That gives the president the power to issue reprieves and pardons says, quote, except in cases of impeachment. and by the way, it's not appealable either. the supreme court has said, because the constitution says that the senate shall have the sole power to try impeachment, you can't appeal a senate conviction to the supreme court. >> jill, you were a special prosecutor in richard nixon's watergate proceedings. pete was just giving us a little historical perspective, but we're living in a whole new world. given what you did then and what you know about this administration, what do you expect t...

Andrew johnson. the final vote, 242 yeas to 296 nays. only two democrats jumped party lines and voted against the resolution. this means house committees can now begin public hearings. we'll break that process down for you a little later in the hour. and how the president and his counsel could participate. we're already getting reaction from lawmakers on the hill. >> this is a process that has been fundamentally tainted. the president has had no rights. >> weapon recognize the seriousness of this undertaking. we recognize that we have been compelled by the circumstances to move forward. we wil...

Political system is right now. justin amash, the independent who voted in favor of the resolution, was a republican until a few months ago, and he essentially got drummed out of the party by not being as supportive as donald trump as has become essentially necessary within the party. so you would have had a sort of playing field not been the way it was. not a terrible surprise here that the two democratic members who did vote against moving forward on this issue did so. one is a longtime representative of a fairly conservative district in minnesota. a heavily donald trump district. the other a...