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On at least article one, now voting on article two coming up next. martha, thank you. and one more note, as this all plays out. impeached on article one. we wanted to get to the scope of this and what to expect next. president trump now only the third american president to be impeached, as mary mentioned at the top. the first, andrew johnson in 1868. he was impeached, then acquitted in the senate by one vote. in 1974, richard nixon faced a long inquiry, but he resigned before the impeachment v...

The rules give the first call to the chief justice, but unlike a courtroom the senate jurors have the final call. sometimes the judge can lead and the call will hold. most of our footage tonight is from the one televised impeachment trial. but take an example from the 1868 trial of president johnson. the chief justice ruled about senators deliberating behind closed doors. we found chief justice rindqvist cited that precedent for ruling on an open trial until senators closed the door to deliberat...

. another historic moment right now. there is a procedural vote going on, right now on the house of representatives. by the end of the day, the president of the united states is almost certainly going to be impeepd. andrew johnson was impeached in 1868, bill clinton in 1998 and now president donald trump is about to become the third president to be impeached. >> it will forever be a black mark on his record. he will be impeached. it will be a part of his history and in as much as he professed ...

Residence. he usually gets down to the oval office at 11:00 in the morning. no television sets in the oval office itself he has the private study off that that does have television in it. the president will likely be watching that. the white house and campaign rapid response organizations are all keyed up and ready to go. theyll be responding to everything that we hear when all of the members start giving their one-minute or case of the leadership more than that speeches as to why the president ...

Behalf of congressional democrats to insert this level of gravity. it just didnt exist in terms of the facts. you know, the quoting of thomas paine and the introducing of the founding fathers in this effort to sort of like, raise historic value, really what amounted to extraordinary partisan process. >> this is the only partisan impeachment we have had in the countrys history and whats going to come down to probably bipartisan efforts with a couple of democrats voting against impeachment. speaki...

Was very contrite and apologetic and remorseful if public. obviously donald trump is the exact opposite of that. but if you look back at the two previous impeachments and the near impeachment of president nixon, each one of those was really about the divisions in the country at the time. we look back at andrew johnson. it was 1868. there was a raging debate in the country about what kind of america it would be post civil war. during the time of nixon, there was just a continuing division of cult...

You look back at andrew johnson, it was 1868, there was a raging debate in the country about what kind of america it would be post civil war. during the time of nixon, there was just a continuing division of -- the culture wars of vietnam and watergate, certainly. clinton was much the same, the divisions in the country were quite pronounced at the time between republicans and democrats. and we see it today with donald trump, not that this is just about the divisions in the country. obviously, th...

Accepting or rejecting any comparisons to where weve been before, most notably, i guess, clinton a generation ago. in your view, where are we right now tonight? >> well, there was actually -- first of all, clinton was contrite, publicly contrite. at least, he was raging behind closed doors at the white house, but he was very contrite and apologetic and remorseful in public. obviously donald trump is the exact opposite of that. but if you look back, we were looking back today at the four -- the t...

Blanker or what some other members have said. theyre people who have served the country and they have decided they will vote yes, which means now the president of the united states will be impeached. the fact that its inevitable makes it no less historic. this is as mika laid out, 1868, 1998, and now 2019 when united states presidents have been impeached, and i think it will be quite a scene tonight in battle creek, michigan, with the president of the united states standing up at one of his rall...

Okay. jeffrey engle, to glorias point, i mean, how well history looks at this letter? can you put this six-page diatribe into historic context for us? >> when listening to about, the news about this letter i had the exact same thought im sure every american did. reminds me of andrew johnson in 1868. he first of all was one who would go off in diatribes and would, one of my favorite lines from him he made the claim during his impeach innocent no one had ever sacrificed or suffered more fon the yo...