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Member and one of the ones who will definitely be joining us tonight. the house judiciary committee is now working on towards voting articles tomorrow. a standard procedure in most committees is for the chairman and ranking minority to make opening statements only, but tonight for this momentous hearing chairman nadler allowed each member of the committee, democrat and republican to make opening statements after chairman nadler began the historic session with these words. >> today we begin consideration of two articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the first article charges...

Judicia judiciary. >> there may be. it depends on does the president or minority want to call witnesses that haven't been testified already. i don't know that. it depends. we'll have to see. >> when you say due process, this has been a contentious term here. it's interesting to me to see the president who once praised police officers for banging the heads of suspects against cop cars get religion on due process. but what do you understand as due process in this context? >> due process means the opportunity to lay out the evidence for the court, in this case for the committee and for the americ...

And then pass them, there will be impeachment hearings in the judiciary committee. >> there may be. >> there may be? >> there may be. it depends on does the president or minority want to call witnesses that haven't been testified already. i don't know that. it depends. we'll have to see. >> when you say due process, this has been a contentious term here. it's interesting to me to see the president who once praised police officers for banging the heads of suspects against cop cars get religion on due process. but what do you understand as due process in this context? >> due process means the op...

Conceivably it is a way for her to put old wine in new bottles to contain in a different way the -- it doesn't mean a lot practically. this is a lot different than voting articles of impeachment and it may well be in the end they investigate everything and decide to do nothing. i don't think there is a huge -- one can also argue there is as much of a political risk for nancy pelosi not doing anything. she was -- more than half of the democratic caucus wants impeachment from seedings. she may have felt she had to do this to give them a pressure release. >> bill: they need a simple majority. not...

Them themselves. >> some sort of road map that should be taken right now. why? what is that? >> no, i didn't mention the road map, but it's a very good way to proceed if barr does not allow the public to have the facts that mueller has gathered and puts in his report. there is a provision in our law that lous a court to release even grand jury testimony and do what we did in watergate. we did not indict richard nixon, although many of us l felt he should be because the evidence was clear he was a participant along with the others who were indicted, but we provided a road map of the evidence to...