House to Vote on Thursday on Impeachment Procedures
BALDWIN: All right. We are back with some breaking news from Capitol Hill. We are just now learning that the House will vote this Thursday on a resolution related to impeachment procedures. This is coming into us as a former Trump official defied Congress today and refused to show up for his testimony. So let's go straight to senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju. And so, Manu, talk to me about what exactly happens on Thursday?</s>MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, this is an interesting move by House Democrats who have faced criticism from the White House for not actually having a formal vote to authorize their impeachment inquiry. Now what this will do, this resolution will essentially set the procedures for allowing this investigation to move forward, detail exactly what this inquiry would look like in the days ahead. And according to a letter that Nancy Pelosi is circulating, it says a resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes disclosure of deposition transcripts and outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment and sets forth due process rights to the President and his counsel. So what that means is significant. It suggests the next phase of this impeachment inquiry is about to happen. Right now we're seeing closed- door hearings happening in the House Intelligence Committee, hearings that have brought in witnesses who have detailed what has happened as it relates to the President's efforts with Ukraine. But the next step, assuming that Democrats do move to impeach this President, would move to the House Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Committee would consider articles of impeachment before sending it on to the full House to vote to impeach the President, which would be the third time in American history that a President has been impeached. So this resolution that's going to be voted on this week in the House will detail what that next phase will look like, public hearings, what the transcripts release will look like and also detail exactly the next step for the Judiciary Committee. What's interesting here, Brooke, of course, is that Democrats have been criticized for weeks on end by Republicans. The White House has not turned over evidence to Congress because they contend they should have had a vote to authorize that inquiry. Democrats have said there's no reason to have any sort of vote, nothing in the rules, in the Constitution requires them to have a vote they say. But by setting forth this resolution moving forward, it's essentially call the White House's bluff, if you will, to say we're going to vote on this, set up procedures and now there's no reason not to turn over this information to Congress. So an interesting decision here by the leaders to actually take a formal vote, setting forward on these procedures, something the Democratic leadership has resisted doing for some time -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Got it. Thursday, new phase. Manu, thank you very much for that. Speaking of the House, just moments ago, emotional words from Congresswoman Katie Hill about her reason for resigning. Plus did the crowd at the World Series last night go a tad too far when President Trump showed up?</s>CROWD CHANTING: Lock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.