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the senate taking up articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas democrats may look to dismiss the articles quickly, but we'll republicans let them will take you there and just moments plus house speaker mike johnson trying to fend off threats by republican hardliners, a standoff that could now jeopardize the much delayed push to pass aid for israel and ukraine and in the donald trump criminal case in new york, nearly half of the jurors have now been chosen. >> what we know about them and how quickly the entire jury could be seated are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central thanks so much for joining us this afternoon in a matter of just moments, the historic and controversial senate impeachment trial of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is set to begin. >> the democratic majority in

the senate is looking to move quickly to acquit or to dismiss the case altogether, just one day after house republicans delivered the two articles of impeachment. now, republican lawmakers recusing mayorkas of abandoning his duties when it comes to the record, migrant surge at the us mexico border. they voted to impeach mayorkas back in february. the first cabinet secretary impeachment and nearly 150 years. but constitutional experts say the evidence and the allegations here fall short of the high crimes and misdemeanors threshold cnn's lauren fox is up on the hill for us and lauren, do we know yet how this might play out well, we've gotten some early indications, jessica, that this trial is not going to last long. >> we do expect the democrats will likely bring a motion to dismiss or emotion the table to wrap things up relatively quickly. there hadn't been some discussion about trying to get a time agreement to allow republicans to have some amendments, to have some discussion around this

impeachment trial. but so far i just talked to joe josh hawley as he was headed to the senate floor. it doesn't appear that they've been able to clinch any agreement. democrats obviously have the majority and the united states senate and you've heard from the majority leader, chuck schumer that this in his mind does not meet the threshold of taking up the kind of senate floor time that is so valuable right now on capitol hill, he's are i'm you'd that this is really a policy disagreement between republicans and democrats and that this does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors that you would typically glee have to see in this kind of trial. now, if they move quickly to dismiss this a couple of things to keep an eye on. what do some of those republic blinken's who voted with democrats in the past on impeachment matters. what do they do? people like mitt romney, people like lisa murkowski, the other big question, what do some of those democrats who are running for reelection in red states like montana or ohio, what do they

decide to do today? i think those are a couple of things to keep an eye on, but it's important to point out that while they are having this disk fashion on the floor of the senate, they cannot do any other business senators will be sworn in as jurors, as we speak once that happens, then they will be in this proceeding until they vote not to be anymore. >> jessica and lauren. notably, this move to bring attention to the crisis at the border, the backdrop of this is that there's still talk on the hill about the bipartisan border bill that republicans killed earlier this year well, that's certainly something that democrats want to keep in the conversation as they are running for reelection, someone like senator jon tester in the red state of montana. he is trying to remind voters that he had not just turning a blind eye to what's happening on the southern border. he's arguing republicans are trying to make a political discussion about

this, while democrats are trying to find find some kind of solution that is what you've heard many democrats say, and that is what democrats, if they vote to dismiss this trial in short order, that's what many of them are going wayne to argue, bob casey, a democrat from pennsylvania who is running for reelection. he said earlier, if you wanted to help at the southern border, you could have voted for that bipartisan hard-fought compromise that senator james lankford and kyrsten sinema and chris murphy put together just a few months ago yeah. meantime, there's a whole other fight over a border bill that's being added to foreign aid bills on the house sayyed, a lot going on to say the least on capitol hill, lauren fox, thanks so much for the uptick. >> and let's discuss this now with to cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger and ron brownstein, and also with us constitutional law professor at unc chapel hill, michael gerhardt. he's the author of the law a presidential impeachment. it's great to have all of you, michael, i want to start first with you because constitutional experts have said, look, this does not

reach high crimes and misdemeanors, which is the threshold in an impeachment as someone who literally wrote the book on this how did we end up here well, we ended up here for reasons that are probably clear to every american that is, this is a political stunt that republicans want to put on a show about how bad president biden's immigration policy has been. >> but impeachment was not designed fine to address policy differences. that's what we have elections four, and that's also why we have a congress. it's empowered to pass legislation to try and address this. keep in mind that if senator secretary mayorkas is convicted and there's no chance whatsoever that'll happen. then president biden, we just appoint somebody who would do exactly the same thing so this is a process that's designed to waste resources and divert attention from the real work in the legislature and to embarrass the president. that's not what impeachment is. four, that's why we are

hearing the senator schumer's going to try and get rid of this as soon as possible. >> gloria, as michael put it, this is largely for show, right and ultimately, nobody believes that may orcas is going to get convicted. >> yet it could have some consequences. >> electorally, the way that lauren described in that certain democrats in red states, depending on how they proceed maybe at risk based on their decision, right? look as we were just saying, this is just performative today. >> but there's no doubt that immigration is a key issue in a lot of these battleground states. and that's why you're looking at senator like jon tester in a red state who's up for reelection. and it could be an issue for him trump's super pac has just put out an ad on immigration. and so rather than just looking at it through this little lens of what happens today on the senate floor. if you widen the aperture, you have to say, okay, this is a about do i agree with the way

joe biden has handled immigration policy or do i disagree with that? and if you're in a tough rais, that might be a bit of a tough vote for you today. >> ron. >> we go back to the fact that there was a comprehensive bipartisan piece of legislation that was put on the floor of the senate was killed in part mostly because the former president donald trump wanted to make it a key issue in this race and yet here we are. this seemed like the thing that house could do to continue to keep this in the news is americans are so frustrated with congress generally. is this just the next thing that frustrates them? >> yeah, i think you're phrasing is exactly right. i mean, it is a way to keep in the news the issue that is close to, if not the absolute weakest for biden in polling. i mean, his writings on immigration are as low as they are on anything, including inflation. so republicans are

trying to keep it in the news. i think their problem is that this then this vehicle for doing so is so transparently inappropriate. the idea that disagree with the policy as a basis for inflation that i actually don't think it'll be that tough a vote for him or crafts to not convict and to end to end and to move on. >> the question. the real question will be, how much of a electoral defense does the demise of that bipartisan bill provide two democrats, including biden i certainly think that their situation is better after republicans scuttle that deal than before. but i think it is still an open issue and there is a lot of i think still discussion and democratic ranks about whether biden is going to need to do something unilateral. i don't to tighten conditions at the border in the direction of the deal. if not going as far as the deal itself could have done by changing legislation. so that's still up in the air, but i don't think this is a vehicle that most voters will see as legitimate for settling what is fundamentally a policy dispute? >> so michael shortly before we

begin, we were trying to figure out before we began the show, we were trying to figure out exactly how this was going to work there are some rules in place in terms of procedure. walk us through what we're likely to see early on well, what's going to happen. >> i think is that the presiding officer of the senate who will be the senate pro tem senator murray from washington is going to open the proceedings the first-person she will recognize is the majority leader. now, the majority leader could have made a deal with the minority leader, mitch mcconnell to provide some kind of show or devote more time to this. there is never going to be deal along those lines. so instead, i think the majority leader from the get-go is going to make a proposal so or emotion that this matter be dismissed or tabled because there's no legitimate basis for it. this

is just all about political theater. it's not about the immigration problem legislation would deal with that impeachment doesn't deal with that so as soon as senator schumer does that then there may be an attempt by the other side to raise what's called a point of order to try and slow it down. they might raise some procedural objections. keep in mind any objections would then be put to the entire senate, which would resolve them by majority vote meaning the democrats would vote against any such motions are pointing it's of order. and therefore, the ball goes back in the senate. majority leader's courts, so to speak, senator schumer, to propose, again a motion to dismiss that will come to a vote probably today, probably pretty soon. and i think we already know the outcome. the majority of the senate is going to get rid of this all right, so we are watching as this impeachment trial gets underway on the floor of the us senate, gloria borger, ron brownstein, professor michael gerhardt, stay with us as we continue to monitor this and we're going to get back into this trial as

soon as things get started right now, i think they're doing just a roll call to make sure everyone's in their seats as they're supposed to. >> sometimes it's hard to get all hundred senators theater where they're supposed to be on dime we're also tracking some breaking news. >> another big story we're following right now, lawmakers in arizona or pushing to repeal the state's near-total abortion ban. just one week after the state supreme court, there revived a law from the 1800s that bans the procedure in all cases except to save the mother's life it is a rolling that has sparked outrage and could have far-reaching consequences for the election in november, cnn's natasha chin is live in phoenix with the latest developments in uttar. we were just looking at and some video there. walk us through the process that house lawmakers now face today in getting this bill to the floor well, they just started the session, gobbled in about five minutes ago. >> this is going to require fire. the house to bypass some procedural laws where they

typically have to hear a bill and committed committee before it goes to the full floor. but they could vote to bypass that and look at the repeal on the floor today. now, by looking at whether they bypass that procedure, you can kind of get a sense of whether there's enough interests it's an urgency to actually repeal this law that dates back to the 1860s. and as a reminder, this is a law that makes abortion nearly illegal except in the case of saving the life of the mother. it comes with a two to five-year prison sentence for providers who violate this law, we did hear from a number of rights to life, people who fileinto theouse building today, thetalked to us about some of the nuances here. not all of them agreed on this prison time and they said this conversati should keep happening between parties who disagree. here they i think that it's important th we ta about these tngs use disagree stop talking ly

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november, which would enshrine the right to an abortion in arizona, what more you want in about that right? so the group trying to gather signatures for that, say that they do have enough signatures far ahead of the july deadline for that ballot for that initiative to make it on the november ballot. of course. those signatures have to be verified if it makes it to the november ballot. we are talking about that issue. enshrining abortion rights in the state's constitution alongside arizonans voting for president, voting for senate seats. so this definitely could affect a lot of their local and state and federal elections here natasha jen from phoenix. >> thank you so much. are we want to get back to the the senate where we understand that senators were taking roll call trying to determine if they have a quorum to move forward with the potential impeachment trial of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas

right now, the senator from washington, patty murray, was going through that list of senators obviously a tense moment on the senate floor. there's uncertainty over how this is going to progress. and there could be some fireworks. nevertheless, i think the conclusion leads to the same result, which is that mayorkas likely will not be convicted. >> yeah, it's it's one of those instances where there's many ways to get to your final destination, but we know likely what the final destination is, which is with this will be dismissed. however, we're going to watch and see how we get there and how it unfolds. and we're going to have some company doing that. gloria borger, ron brownstein, and michael gerhardt are all here with us and gloria, you're seated right here to my left watching this unfold we were talking before the show and we were saying, you said use the word performative as we're watching this unfold out here on this floor, it is striking that something that i even in ten, 15 years ago impeachment was such a heavy, somber thing

that now here we are. >> well, let's defining a downward. as i say, and i think that this is performative, but there are republicans, including republicans like mitt romney, mitch mcconnell saying, look we ought to have a little debate on this before we table it. and i'm romney effectively said, look, i'll be happy to get rid of this and dismiss it. but we have to give it a little bit of a hearing rather than just saying no because the house voted for it. now, if you'll recall the house didn't have an easy time passing this. it tried once and it failed and then it try it again and it passed narrowly so wasn't exactly popular in the house either so i think they're going to have to chuck schumer's going to have to find a way to kind of let some people speak their peace. and then dispose of it as quickly as it can run based on the way that gloria outlined the effort to get there too in into this

potential debate. what do you think the incentive would be for chuck schumer to let republicans go ahead and speak and essentially say their piece about the secretary yeah, i think to a point, obviously, you know that the capacity for really any senator, but certainly an entire caucus have senators to gum up the works in the senate is enormous, not only on this issue you know, the kind of response could spill over beyond it. >> so it's kind of hard to simply ignore or silence the minority party in the senate. and i suspect he will have some accommodation while keeping in mind his overall desire to move past this very quickly. and, you know, gloria brought up the house vote, which is a reminder. i mean democrats did not not feel much constraint or hesitation about voting against

this in the house. and i don't think they will feel much more inhibition about opposing it in the senate, immigration, as we said, is an issue where republicans now have a significant advantage. i mean, a lot of the trump policies that were very controversial when he was president have actually been gaining support in polls in a kind of hydraulic fashion as people have been disillusioned with biden's approach. but this i think is not something that most voters are going to see as legitimate use of impeachment. it is really more reflection of what you were talking about before, about how in washington any tool that can be used against the other party now has to be used legislatively. and this is just the latest example and escalation of that ron gloria michael, please standby. we're going to continue to watch the senate floor where the senate impeachment trial of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas could begin at any moment soon we're expecting that senator murray of washington and we'll

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security. and now the senate is potentially going to take that up for a trial. however, there are steps in place that could gum that up. we are closely watching as the process unfolds, there will bring you the latest developments as we get them in the meantime, jury selection and former president donald trump's manhattan hush money trial is set to resume tomorrow. and by all accounts, things are moving very swiftly than half of the jury was seated on tuesday seven jurors were selected, just five more needed but then of course, remember six alternate jurors will need to be picked as well. and if they keep this pace, the judge says that opening arguments could begin on monday. not everybody is happy about the selection process though the former president jumped on social media to complain, arguing that ten peremptory strikes thanks per side to disqualify potential jurors. each side doesn't like isn't enough. let's discuss this with cnn senior legal

analyst and former federal prosecutor, elie honig le great to see you as always now both prosecutors and trump's defense team have four peremptory juror strikes remaining. they've all already used six of them. what's the strategy now heading into tomorrow? and is there a way to get more strikes so far as first of all, yet, let's clear up some confusion maybe caused by the former president's social media post. there isn't unlimited number of what we call for cause strikes, meaning somebody who is just so bias that they can't possibly serve as an impartial juror. >> the judge can remove as many of those people as necessary. there no limit on that. but then you get into what you're calling correctly peremptory strikes where each side in the new york state system gets ten, and that's where you can use these strikes strategically. so first of all, i think both sides are holding onto those four remaining strikes and they're looking to eliminate worst-case scenarios. they're looking to eliminate outliers

as to whether you can get more peremptory challenges. you can ask as a lawyer, but it's very unlikely, uh, judges going to give you more. so i think they understand they have four left each. >> yeah. yesterday i was saying preemptive strikes. i wasn't reading it correctly. it's per m3. >> learn something new every day le, who are some of those? yeah who are some of the jurors that have been picked so far that you find interesting and why so there are two lawyers who are on this jury which really goes against this sort of traditional playbook conventional wisdom, especially among prosecutors, is that you don't want a lawyer on the jury because lawyers may think they know the law better than the judge. they may take over the jury. they may feel like they can stand on their own if they know something more than the da or the defense lawyers do know. so that's really unusual to have a lawyer on the jury now, this one that you've just pulled up, juror number three says that he reads the wall street journal that jumps out at me because on the one hand, the wall street journal

has been quite critical of this prosecution. they've argued that it's unnecessary and an overreach on the other hand, the journal has been quite critical of donald trump as a politician and a candidate. and in some instances, for his personal conduct. so as with many of these jurors, something to like something to dislike for each sayyed and how about juror number four? he's gotten kind of an interesting background so i'm going to play a little armchair quarterback here. >> this is the one that stands out to me that i'm surprised the da did not strike because as the board says there, this juror did say that he finds donald trump fan fascinating and mysterious, but it's also important to understand the context around that because he preceded that by saying, well, donald trump has this way of walking into a room and setting people off. so that's a sort of ambivalent phrasing of this person's perspective, but that would worry me as the da as the prosecution here. i don't want someone who's, uh, namdar the width are fascinated with donald trump in any way fascinating and mysterious that

can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people i'm also curious. >> le how would you be feeling so far about the seven jurors if you were a lawyer on either side of the case, you mentioned juror for potentially being a concern for the da what about the others yeah. >> i think overall boris here for either side, i would be satisfied with what we have. i wouldn't be rejoicing. i wouldn't be popping the cork on the champagne. it's way too early for that but overall the process so far has been smooth and fair and the jurors who've been seated, none of them jumped out to me as oh, my gosh, that person is going to be an enormous problem for one side or the other end really, not to be sort of overly rosy about it, but this is how our system is supposed to work. and i think thus far, based on what we know and can see, it's yielding a fair result. >> elie honig, appreciate the perspective as always, you want to get you straight to the floor of the us senate. here's senator patty murray of washington in the impeachment trial of the secretary of the

department of homeland security. let's listen. >> majority leader's recognized at this time pursuant to rule three of the senate rules on impeaching she meant in the united states constitution, the president pro tem emeritus the senator from iowa, will now administer the oath to the president pro tem, patty murray do you solemnly swear and all things ever caning to the trial of impeachment of a halland, ella handrail in mayorkas secretary of homeland security. >> now pending you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws. so help you god. >> i do yeah.

>> at this time, i will administer the oath to all senators in the chamber in conformance with the article one, section three, clause six of the constitution, and the sentence imposed each moment rules will all senators now stand and raise their right hands do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of alejandro mayorkas secretary of homeland security, now, pending you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws so help you god the clerk will now call

the names in groups of four senators will present themselves at the desk to sign the oath book ms ball, when mr. barrasso mr... bennett mrs. blackburn okay. >> you are listening to the senator's being sworn in as jurors in the impeachment trial of the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. let's bring back and gloria borger and ron brown stein and michael gerhardt, michael, i want to go out to you because i was interesting in a bit, but striking is during trump's first house impeachment, many republicans definitive their defensive him was essentially he didn't commit a crime. he can't be impeached. and this time, the republican impeachment managers are arguing the opposite that impeachment quote, this is their quote, impeachment does not require the commission of indict able crimes. so which one is it well it is in fact

true that officials such as the president or secretary of homeland security may be impeached for non criminal offenses. >> it's also true that maybe felonies that are so serious that they could serve as a basis for impeaching. so they're grounds that can be found either in terms of felony or in terms of something really bad and an abuse of power that the person who's being impeached has done i do want to point out for our viewers just for the sake of clarity, what's happening now is that alphabetically in members of the senate are being called in groups of four to sign the oath book essentially certifying them, swearing them in as jurors in this impeachment trial. >> gloria mayorkas was the first cabinet secretary, impeached, and 150 years, dating back to the civil war, what does that tell you about? the state of us politics? >> well, it tells you that that

people are looking for scapegoats and stocking horses and and that immigration policy is unpopular. it's a good issue for republicans and he's the, he's in charge and i'm joe biden is ultimately in charge. of course and that the state of american politics is that you want to grab on to the brass ring the easiest thing. and he was he was are low-hanging fruit, whatever you want to call it. and he was he's there and so they said, okay, let's let's impeach him. this is really about impeaching policy not about impeaching a person. and that's the problem with this whole procedure, which is they disagree with immigration policy and as was pointed out before, there was an opportunity to change immigration policy and donald trump put the cup bosch on it. if you'll recall it almost passed. so i think that this is

the american public is ron was saying, we'll probably see this for what it is which is a show but also understanding that joe biden may well have to do something on immigration to a page the electorate before in november. yeah. and to gloria's point there, ron, what? this is what it is, but in the data that we're getting in the polling that we're seeing from voters. immigration is a concern for voters out there, especially in some of these swing states that are going to matter a lot to joe biden and donald trump. and so that continues to be a key issue that is going to drive us toward november yeah, absolutely. >> and he says i said earlier biden polls more poorly on immigration than almost any other subject, except possibly inflation i do think immigration is reflective of a dynamic that is absolutely pivotal on this election across

a whole range of issues. and that is that, as i said, voters are very discontented with biden's record on immigration, and he gets bad marks, even among a surprising percentage of democrats, it's hard for him to wait to change that retro perspective judgment on his performance very much between now and november. on the other hand, a lot of the things that donald trump is talking about doing on immigration are going to test the public tolerance as well. i mean, he's talking about mass deportation, internment camps unilateral medulla terry action against mexico, including a blockade ending birthright citizenship would not rule out in a cnn town hall last year restoring his policy of separating kids from families, from their parents at the border. and so on. all of these fronts, voters may be unhappy about what biden has done. that doesn't necessarily mean they want to buy it the direction that trump is proposing and

that applies to a lot of different issues on the economy with tax cuts, et cetera. so i do think that this is an interesting place interesting kind of encapsulation of the larger challenge trump largely wants voters to look back and assess what the biden four years have menn and compare them to what what he said as was the record his four years, biden mostly wants voters to look forward and assess what each man would do with power if returned to the white house of a former years, immigration really captures that dynamic yeah, it appears that now we've reached the letter c in the alphabetical signing many minutes. >> i think i just saw senator tom cotton there, so still a long way to go as they certify themselves as jurors, we want to go to the white house now with cnn white house correspondent priscilla alvarez, who's been tracking the white house response to these proceedings. and we understand priscilla, that the white house has been in close touch with officials over at dhs as all of this is unfolded

yeah. >> ever since these proceedings got underway, the white house and homeland security if there's those have been in close touch gaming out strategies. and responses often taking to the split-screen moment strategy and showing that house republicans, for example campbell as they opened up this impeachment inquiry, we're doing so by leaving reform, immigration reform by the wayside particularly when that's an a border deal came to roy said one that the homeland security secretary worked closely on with senators on both sides of the aisle and still the house republicans pushed forward with their impeachment of the secretary. so it was clear from the the very beginning that the dhs secretary was going to be a top target for width. we're where four republicans as soon as they took control of congress, and that is what we have seen play out and over every week and month, the white house and homeland security officials had been in close touch trying to sort out what to do and what the strategy was going to be and usually boiled down to this

is a meritless impeachment inquiry it's a political stunt and that policy does not. it does not get to the point of high crimes and misdemeanors as many legal experts have said now, i spoke with the secretary earlier this month in a roundtable with reporters and he simply said that his focus was on the job he was on the hill yesterday where he was tested defying on the homeland security budget. he is in new york today where he is focused on an awareness campaign for child exploitation and who'll be back on the hill tomorrow, focusing my budget. i mentioned all those things because when asked about this, that's what the secretary points to that he's kept his head down and continue to do the work. and really dismiss this as the political stunt the white. house that the white house and the department as a whole has cast this as they're watching all of this very closely, they're monitoring but they are also very well aware of that this is comes down onto a matter of policy disagreements over border policy. and of course immigration has been a

political vulnerability for president biden since he took office. when they've tried to flip the script on with that senate border deal, which was tanked after former president donald trump told republicans not to move forward with it, but it doesn't mean that this issue goes away for president biden and this pitchman inquiry, as much as it is about the homeland security secretary really is about border policy and just goes to show how republicans are continuing to hammer the administration over this even as the white house tries to change the narrative. >> all right. priscilla alvarez, forest alive at the white house. again, you are watching all 100 senators signed the oath book. there is this impeachment trial gets underway. it appears we are in the hs that is senator josh hawley there. so we're making our way down on the list. we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back every weekday morning, cnn five things has what you need to get going with your day. >> it's the five essential stories of the morning in five minutes or less.

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together it is the very thing democrats have asked for. >> and exactly what the far-right members of his own party have threatened to oust him over see you in an anchor and chief congressional correspondent, manu raju is joining us now with the latest manu, there are still a lot of moving parts about how this will be put together, how the what, who will vote on the rule, et cetera, et cetera, give us the state of play yeah. >> this is a key moment here in the house over this furious battle to fund it. the ukraine give it aid that is saying it desperately needs at this critical moment, republicans have been badly divided for months and now the speaker of the house indicating he's prepared to move forward, the package that includes aid to ukraine they're planning to vote on separate bills in the house on friday, splitting up this aid package between israel ukraine and and some other measures as well, including a potential ban on tiktok. but avlon them separately. there'll them to be tied together as one

big bill so go back to the united states, said it, and that is causing furious anger among the right wing of his party because a lot of republicans on that right flank have said there'll be we absolutely no more money spent for ukraine are also demanding new border security measures to be part of any deal. and that is not expected to be part of this underlying bill they've eventually passes the house. if it does get the votes, i spent the morning talking to allow those members on the far right. and many of them are indicated that they may support an effort to oust mike johnson from his job the speaker, just two out of his element here no, i just think the speaker needs to get home and listened to our base i'm not very pleased with, you. would you support a motion to vacate that's a i think that's frankly it's more bluster than real well, how disappointed? i don't know. are you at the speaker barry. >> i mean, i'm i'm well past the point of giving grace here. >> i haven't made up my mind yet i'm not happy about this

rule is pushing us to the brink here and the leader of this effort, marjorie taylor greene, i just caught up with her in the hallways of the capital and i asked her if she's planning to move forward. >> the call for this vote, it would any member can do to seek the speaker's ouster exerts for your motion to vacate growing. >> it is growing and i think some people are becoming more angry than i am so this we'll see what happens today. i don't know how much longer are members are going to tolerate the republican speaker that we elected? i'd to pass our agenda in the house we don't know. i don't know how long people are going to tolerate this because he's doing nothing but starting the democrats now, the republicans are badly divided over this. >> as i mentioned, there are a number of republicans who are coming to the speaker's defense who do support more aid tube crying, but expect this to be this vote when it happens to

show potentially a minority republicans that could happen who actually support this because johnson will have to rely on democratic support or to get this over the finish line. and that is clearly his calculus here. and also there which could be part of it, will democrats come to his aid to save him from that threaten? of being ousted from the speakership. much different than a historic and unprecedented ouster of kevin mccarthy last fall when democrats all voted with eight republicans to oust him from the speaker much of this time, many democrats are indicating that they may save speaker johnson and large part because of his decision to move ahead with aid to ukraine yeah. all the action on capitol we'll just underscores today the importance and the significance of the issue of immigration and just how divisive it's been manu raju. thank you so much for the update. we're continuing to watch on the senate sayyed as a group of senators get sworn in, there you have i believe that's chuck schumer. it is the majority leader has sworn in as a juror

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as a court of impeachment to consider the articles of impeachment against alejandro and mayorkas secretary of homeland security madam president g20 leaders recognize you in a moment i will ask you nanometers consent to allow for debate time to allow for republicans to offer and have votes on trial resolutions, and allow for republicans to offer and have votes on points of order so i ask unanimous consent that senator lee be recognized to offer a resolution that is the text of esther as 624 the full senate trial that senator cruz be recognized to offer a resolution that is the text of x-rays six, two to the trial i'll committee that there then be up to 60 minutes of debate on the resolutions concurrently. >> an equally divided between the two leaders or their designee ease and following the us or yielding back of that time, the senate vote on, or in

relation to the resolutions in the order listed? with no amendments to the resolutions in order further that following the disposition of the trial resolutions, if they are not agreed to senator schumer is designee be recognized to make a motion to dismiss the first article of impeachment that the motion be subject to only seven points of order that they'll be up to 60 minutes for debate concurrently. an equally divided on the motion to dismiss and the points of order that following the us are yielding back of that time the senate vote in relation to the points of order in the order raised and the motion to dismiss further that if senator schumer or his designee makes a motion to dismiss the second article of impeachment that the motion be subject to only one point of order, that there'll be up to 60 minutes for debate concurrently, then equally divided on the motion to dismiss and the points of order that following the us are yielding back of that time, the senate vote in relation to the

points of order in the order raised and the motion to dismiss following that further, the disposition further disposition of article two the senate vote on the motion to adjourn the court of impeachments in a j finally, that there'll be up to four minutes for debate, equally divided between the two liters or their designee is prior to each roll call vote all without intervening action or debate is there an objection and present senator from missouri, reserving my right to object to dismiss or table articles of impeachment against secretary mayorkas without a trial. >> here today, we're in committee is an unprecedented move by senator schumer never before in the history of our republic has the senate dismissed or table the articles of impeachment when the impeached individual was alive and had not resigned. as senator schumer said, in 2020, quote, a fair trial has witnesses, a fair trial has relevant documents as part of the record. a fair trial seeks the truth nothing more. nothing

less i will not assist senator schumer and setting are constitution of blades in bulldogs at bulldozing 200 years of precedent therefore, i object. madam president objection is heard madam president, i raise a point of order that impeachment article one does not alleged conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor as required under article two, section four of the united states constitution and is therefore unconstitutional. under the precedence and practices of the senate, the chair has no power or authority to pass on such a point of order the chair, therefore, under the precedence of the senate, submits the question to the senate is the point of order well-taken? the republican leaders recognized. clinical colorado his mom, one

okay so you are wanting the senate floor right now as the impeachment trial is underway for homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and borse. we were watching as senator schumer was talking and senate pro tem patty murray. >> there's a lot of arcane person deidre, even you see they're having to read what's, they have been told to say because this doesn't happen all the time and this is impeachment is still rare, although getting more frequent and we have not seen a cabinet secretary impeached in well over 150 years. >> so let's go to michael gerhardt now and michael, just to sum it up, i think we've got