But they are being blocked from participating. The Dem heads of the committees "investigating" Trump are not allowing the Republicans on the committees to call their own wittinesses...issue their own subpoenas and are being blocked from seeing the documents the Dems have that allegedly implicate Trump. Now you know I'm far from being a Trump fanboy...but this is hardly a fair and impartial "investigation" Pelosi and her henchmen are conducting here. It smacks of how she ran the House during the crafting of Obamacare when she shut the Republicans out of the entire process then as well.
@txradioguy The Intelligence Committee, the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and the Foreign Affairs Committee, involved in this impeachment inquiry, are as a Grand Jury. A Grand Jury does investigation which is done, in this case, by the three committees listed above. A person cannot attend a Grand Jury to defend oneself since there is nothing to defend if the Grand Jury does not indict. Both parties can question witnesses, read documents the committees requested. Republicans are not blocked from any of this evidence, not blocked from questioning witnesses. This is not a trial.
At the end of the investigation, the evidence is presented to the whole House and a vote is taken to impeach or not. If the vote is not to impeach, that is the end of it. If the president is impeached, takes a simple majority to impeach, the case goes to the Senate for trial. The prosecutor is the House members sent to the Senate to present the evidence. The defendant, Trump, is represented by his lawyers. The Judge is the Supreme Court Judge, the Senate is the Jury. After all this takes place, the Senate votes to convict or not, meaning to remove or not remove the president from office. It takes a 2/3 majority of the Senate to remove the president from office.
I am hearing tonight that Trump is calling Senate Leader McConnell, three times every day to assure himself the Senate will not convict.