Hey, I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to a special live midnight edition of Primetime. We were on

impeachment vote watch, but there's been an unexpected delay. So the historic votes

on articles of impeachment against President Donald John Trump will happen just hours

from now. Yes, on Friday the 13th. Where will history take us? Where will it leave us?

Let's get after it.

10 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning the 13th. That's the new time for this phase of the

reckoning for this president.

Chairman, Mr. Chairman, there was no consulting for the minority ranking member on your schedule

for tomorrow, and what you just blown up schedules for everyone. You chose not to consult

the ranking member on a schedule issue of this magnitude. So typical. This is the, this

is the kangaroo court that we're talking about.

Republicans feigning shock, chairman Nadler announcing less than an hour ago the committee

would recess after they delayed the hearings with a long string of amendments. Let's bring

an hour power impeachment team to unpack what happened and what it means going forward.

We got Michael Gehrhardt, Elliott Wynn Williams and Amanda Carpenter. Amanda, just sticking

to the political sphere, the Republicans were drawing it out, making it as divisive and

long and possible. And as we just heard from Congressman Jamie Raskin, they were going

to get it both ways. When the vote happened at like 2.30 in the morning Eastern time, they'd

say, and in the middle of the night, in the dark, when everyone was asleep, that's when

they did it.

So Nadler tried to cut that off. It's pretty much their only move, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, that would have been a smart move for Republicans. It's great messaging, right?

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