Ridiculous enough, but I was looking forward to it. Anderson, great interview and thank you. Happy Halloween again.

I'm Chris Pormel, welcome to Prime Time. Big day in a very important week.

We have the top investigator leading the impeachment push to sum up what mattered most, the rightness of today's votes,

and his counter to arguments from the other side. It's a new phase. We have new evidence. So let's get after it.

Here's all you need to know about the current state of play in politics. Zero Republicans in the house voted to investigate evidence of abuse of power that's just piling up.

Despite all their cries for a vote to open up the process, they voted against any process at all.

Now here's the problem in this. The GOP is ignoring an obvious wrong. It's bad for them.

But if the case can't be made that this is a consensus situation, and not just a partisan exercise that's about who has more numbers and where, Hamilton warned us.

Democrats may be very wary about paying for their own principles come election time. With this weighing on their head, let's bring in chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff.

Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for joining us on prime time on an important night.

My pleasure. And happy Halloween. Thank you, you did too.

Everything's pretty spooky these days. All right, so let's start with process. On the resolution today, past, why do you believe it makes this process fair for the minority?

Well, we followed the process that was available during the Nixon impeachment during the Clinton impeachment. So we had a model to use.

And we thought that's probably the best approach, even though I have to say the circumstances now are very different in both those prior impeachment.

You had a special prosecutor or an independent counsel doing the fact finding that we've had to do through these depositions.

They had a report they were able to present. And then Congress took the ball from there. So this is a very different circumstance.

It would have been much like more like those other impeachment, frankly, had bill bars justice department not turned down the criminal referral.

Had they been willing to do the investigation they should have done, but we've had to do that ourselves.

Is it true that in the Clinton impeachment that the House still held depositions in private after they got the star report and they interviewed many dozens of officials that way? Isn't that the case?

You know, you're absolutely right. And I have to say I would be very surprised if during that impeachment, the majority party allowed almost 50 Republicans to participate in those depositions.

Over 100 members altogether. So when my GOP colleagues talk about these, this secret star chamber, there are over 100 people eligible to be in that secret room.

And, you know, by way of contrast when Traygatti was conducting the Benghazi depositions, which he thought was a great model for getting the facts.

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