Welcome to The Investigation.

I'm Chris Flastow, senior executive producer here at ABC News and your podcast co-host.

I'm joined by John Santucci, senior editorial producer who's been covering Donald Trump

since the day he went down that escalator.

It's going to be a very historic week here in Washington as the House impeachment inquiry goes

public. For the first time, these witnesses that have been behind closed door are going to

face the cameras and face the American people, and the Democrats are going to try to outline their case and make

their case to the American people for impeachment. But before we get to that, we actually have

the governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson. And I first met Asa Hutchinson when he was a congressman

from Arkansas on the House Judiciary Committee, and he was a House

manager during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

And what the House manager did back then, they were the ones, they were the prosecutors.

They were the ones that presented the case before the Senate and actually made their case

for impeachment.

So he has a unique perspective on this.

Governor, before we begin, I'm going to play a tape of something you said back 20 years ago about

the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

Okay, I'm Asa Hutchinson from Arkansas, member of the House Judiciary Committee.

This is certainly a difficult time for everyone in our nation.

It is particularly a difficult time for those on Capitol Hill.

And because of the difficult nature of what we face,

it's important for the shrill voices to end so that we can do our constitutional duty.

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