michael steele, philip rucker, garrett haake, michael conway, thank you to all of you. now that the historic vote to impeach the president has happened. we look ahead more to what's next. what will house speaker nancy pelosi do and how long will she delay sending the articles of impeachment to the senate? i've got the perfect person to try to answer those questions, congressman ben ray lieu han, assistant speaker of the house. we're still waiting to hear from house minority leader kevin mccarthy. we'll have his remarks when they start. i've heard a lot of excuses to avoid screening for colon cancer. i'm not worried. it doesn't run in my family. i can do it next year. no rush. cologuard is the noninvasive option that finds 92% of colon cancers. you just get the kit in the mail, go to the bathroom, collect your sample, then ship it to the lab. there's no excuse for waiting. get screened. ask your doctor if cologuard is right for you. covered by medicare and most major insurers. man 1 vo: proof of less joint pain woman 1 oc: this is my body of proof. and clearer skin. man

i want to bring in attorney michael conway who's very clear, as well. michael served as counsel to the house judiciary committee during the impeachment of president nixon. so he knows of what he speaks. i want to pick up what -- where -- where garrett just left off. there's garrett, in case anybody was missing him. i want to pick up right where he left off, michael. that the obstruction case, to some people, seems clearer than the case about quid pro quo with ukraine. >> well, you're absolutely right. you know, the constitution uses the word sole power twice. it says that the house has the sole power of impeachment and the senate has the sole power to try the impeachment charge. here, the president has interfered with the impeachment process that the constitution says congress has the sole power to engage in. he doesn't get to decide what's relevant. and he's withheld it in a broadway, much broader and a more brazen way than richard nixon did. richard nixon did send people up to testify to the judiciary committee. albeit, some of them lied under oath. b

michael conway was counsel to the house judiciary committee in the impeachment inquiry to prident nixon in th '70s. mr. conway, thanks for joining us. first of all, what are the rules? does the speaker ever have to transmit these articles of impeachment or could she hold on this themrever? >> she could hold on to them forever at great political risk. the constution says soe power only twice, says the house has the sole power of im,eachme the senate has the sole power of trying the impeachment. until she lets goes to have the articles of impeachment, nancy pelosi can d with them what she wishes. the u.s. supreme court said the courts haveo rule whatsoever in regulating impeachment in the house or senate. so there is no recrse if ncy pelosi decides tohold on to the articles until there can be a netiation about witnesses in the trial. >> yang: and help us understand the political calculus her what leverage was does this create by holding onto the articles of imachment by not triggering the trial in the senate against the president. >> well, you just played theli clip ofsey graham and mitch

i i want to bring in michael conway. served as counsel during the impeachment of president nixon. i want to bring this up because you have worked in an impeachment. >> right. >> and there's been an impeachment since then and this is going to be the third one. what president trump said about impeachment being reserved for use in an emergency has more -- less relationship to the truth or more relationship to the truth than i do with hair. >> right. well, of course, this is an emergency because he's trying to affect our 2020 election. but, no, impeachment was put in to reign in an executive who abused his power, who used immense power of the executive branch for personal gain. and that's what the president's done here. so i think adam schiff said it was an emergency because it's going to affect the next election. but that's not what it's for. it's to reign in an executive who's really gone out of bounds and that's what president trump has done. >> let me play what mitch mcconnell said last night on hannity. i want to get your analysis on this. >> okay. >> everything i do during this,

. >> joining me now is annie carney and vivian salama and michael conway, good to see all of you. an annie, i want to go back to the deadline that's looming right now. do we have any idea whether or not the white house is going to say, yeah, we'll send somebody to participate? >> the white house can surprise us, there is no sign there is any change of strategy and the strategy so far is to dismiss the entire house's procedure as illegitimate and that's what the president wants to do and his aids want to do. i have no warning signs it is going to change the next 48 hours. >> is that the idea here of what's going to happen in the senate? >>> t . >> the white house and the president himself keep on calling it a sham or hoax. they don't want to get involved at it. in the hope, the senate will somehow be exonerating process for the president, they believe that mitch mcconnell will essentially you know dictate a proceeding that's a lot more generous to the president himself. they're looking ahead to that. i think one thing that's interesting in hearing, the rhetoric comeing out of the w

conway. garrett, explain to us what has been going on in that committee room today. >> officially the rules committee is debating the rules by which the house impeachment will go forward on the floor, how long, whether or not there will be amendments loud. you're seeing some of a dress rehearsal for the floor debate with two of the most outspoken members who have been involved in the impeachment process, pushing for the articles or key fending the president against them, doug collins as the ranking member defending the president pushing back moving this to the floor and a late substitution, jamie raskin, young congressman from maryland, replacing jerry nad her the judiciary committee chairman had to return to new york with a family emergency. expect to see more throughout the afternoon as these two go back and forth. something of a colloqu colloquyg articles of impeachment. more and more members whose political careers may be defined how they vote get a chance to lay their hands on the articl

, he was often working through michael cohen or froent friends on the outside to get things done. you see this with rudy giuliani the acceptance of so many different aspects of behavior, questionable behavior from mr. giuliani because the president believes he's an advocate, he's a loyalist. >> it's a real indication of how the white house works. there is not somebody at some point saying hold on a second, why is the man who is ostensibly your personal lawyer getting involved in state department affairs and advocating for the dismissal of one of our top ambassadors. why doesn't that raise a red flag saying hang on, this is going to cause you trouble. this is not the normal procedure. something's going on here that is to do with giuliani and his interests not to do with the country's interests. >> they throw out these jabs she was denying visas, she was corrupt. >> she was fighting corruption. >> she was fighting corruption. she was standing up for the united states of america, and testimony in the impeachment inquiry given by george kent explains the visa denials. viva denials for