Little will change in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump after Thursday's vote on a Democrats' package of ground rules for the inquiry, Ken Starr, the independent counsel who led the investigation into former President Bill Clinton, said.
"The so-called 'phase two' is a continuation of phase one," Starr, a contributor for Fox News, told "Outnumbered Overtime." "As far as I'm able to tell, namely, Adam Schiff continues at the House Intelligence Committee to have all this authority, all this power. We'll see whether he is in fact much more congenial and agreeable and accommodating when the Republicans are" asking for their time for oversight.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats acted too quickly with the initial inquiry, said Starr, as that should not have happened unless there was a full debate on the floor.
Instead, the actions investigating Trump should have been handled as oversight to determine if he did anything wrong in connection with Ukraine.
"Do oversight, and then once you have all the facts, then you focus on impeachment," said Starr, adding that the closed-door investigation so far has been "historically wrong."
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