Public Gets The Impeachment Inquiry Live 🍑!

Congress hold another impeachment injury.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) continue their House Judiciary Hearing today. This is the latest in the fast paced impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump. The Democratic-led House of Representatives are going to issue Articles of Impeachment against the 45th President of the United States for possible abuse of power, obstruction of justice, encouraging foreign influence peddling, bribery and unlawful uses of presidential pardons.

Daniel Goldman, the Democrat's lawyer, and Stephen R. Castor, the Republicans' lawyer, will testify.

The committee is going to convene on Monday to decide if the investigative findings against Trump will prove that he did improperly hold taxpayer money to a foreign nation. He demanded a foreign power to investigate a political rival and organization.

Democrats say that Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden while at the same time withholding U.S. military aid. Apparently this was getting praise from Russia and Trump had off the record conversations with Vladimir Putin.

The hearing sets off a pivotal week as Democrats march towards a full House vote expected before the winter recess. In drafting the articles of impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is facing a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the constitution's bar of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

The White House is conceding that its likely Trump will be impeached. The U.S. Senate will conduct a trial against Trump. They will eventually keep Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) from campaigning.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Republican majority have already signaled they won't support the House impeachment inquiry and will likely fast track the trial.

Democrats and Republicans gather their lawyers.

Monday's hearing is to receive the Intelligence panel's report on the inquiry, with lawyers from both parties testifying in what is expected to be a day long session that will lay the groundwork for the impeachment charges.

Nadler, in two television interviews, declined to say ultimately how many articles of impeachment Democrats will present but said they will involve "certainly abuse of power" and likely "obstruction of Congress." He said final decisions will come after Monday's hearing following discussions with House leadership and the Democratic caucus.

Nadler pointed to a “pattern” of conduct by Trump in seeking foreign interference in elections but would not commit to including the evidence of obstruction of justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation as part of the articles of impeachment.

In his report, Mueller said he could not determine that Trump’s campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia in the 2016 election. But Mueller said he could not exonerate Trump of obstructing justice in the probe and left it for Congress to determine.

House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticized Democrats for their timeline, which he said was unfairly aimed at preventing the nation’s voters from making their own choices in the 2020 election.

"If they do not impeach him, they cannot beat him at the polls," McCarthy.

Trump said over the weekend that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani wants to take the information gathered from Giuliani's investigations and a recent trip to Ukraine to the U.S. attorney general and to Congress. But a House GOP ally called Giuliani's trip "weird," coming as House investigators review allegations that Giuliani improperly worked on behalf of Trump to pressure Ukraine to pursue investigations into Biden and Biden's son, as well as a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

"It is weird that he's over there," said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) describing it as "odd having him over there at this time.”

Nadler spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" and CNN's "State of the Union," McCarthy was on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," Gaetz spoke on ABC's "This Week," and Schiff appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation."