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232. the nays are 196. >> reporter: with that drop of the gavel, the house entering a new phase of the impeachment inquiry, one exceedingly likely to wind up with the impeachment of president donald trump. official procedures for that process, the vote almost entirely along party lines with no republicans supporting it and two democrats voting against. those two democrats crossing the aisle from areas trump handily won in the 2016 election. >> today the country just witnessed the only bipartisan vote on that floor was against. >> the vote determined how the house intelligence committee will ho...

Same territory where nixon was right around the summer of 1974 when he was at the end of the watergate process. i mean, the president, i mean, the number for removing the president from office didn't start to clear 50% until late summer of '74 just before nixon resigned. so the president has, you know, he's overperforming here in terms of where the poll is. but the second issue, i think, is this may be where the polls stay now. because that 38%, as you say, willie, they're just not going to budge. it doesn't matter, the president literally is walking outside, i would argue the president's walk...

It is legal fiction. it is dangerous. it is misleading. >> final question, i believe you are on the record supporting the opening of an impeachment inquiry. how do you see what happens tomorrow in relationship to the fundamental constitutional question of impeachment? >> i think an impeachment inquiry as took place under the watergate process, the water hearing is the right way to go, and the final analysis, the american public is the jury. it's not just the senate, right? this has to come organically from the american public, forcing their lawmakers to do the right thing. tomorrow will hopefu...

Telling the attorney general what he can and can't say before congress. it is legal fiction. it is dangerous. it is misleading. >> final question, i believe you are on the record supporting the opening of an impeachment inquiry. how do you see what happens tomorrow in relationship to the fundamental constitutional question of impeachment? >> i think an impeachment inquiry as took place under the watergate process, the water hearing is the right way to go, and the final analysis, the american public is the jury. it's not just the senate, right? this has to come organically from the american pub...

The parallels are being drown to the nixonian enemies list but at least that was being done behind closed doors until it was exposed in the watergate process. >> there's no ambiguity give on the what the president told the "wall street journal." he said something that had to be done because they were behind the russia information. no ambiguity. as you said, lisa, it hasn't had the immediate impact perhaps that the president was hoping for which was silenting john brennan because he wrote this blistering op-ed in the "new york times" where he says the president's claims of no collusion are hogw...