Of his office by pressuring ukraine to announce investigations beneficial to his reelection l campaign and obstructed congress when he ordered witnesses to defy subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry. Lets bring in columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and kim extrakim strassel and big b. The report said the president abused his power in a way that jeopardized National Security and the intel gritty of our elections inte integrity of r elections. Did it jeopardize security . Even in the worst case scenario, if you believe he threatened to do this paul the way it was provided. The way it was provided. Its interesting that the witnesses against him support the policy i think you and i would support of lethal weaponry for ukraine which was stronger than the policy he inherited. Paul from barack obama. Im in the camp where it was unseemly but not criminal or impeachable. Paul kim, what about the integrity of elections point . Thats a key argument that the democrats are making. Well, look,
Of a single amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without objection, staff is authorized to make technical and conforming changes. Without objection, this meeting is adjourned. Mr. Chairman. As many expected, the votes were strictly cast along party lines. For the first article, abuse of power, 23 yays from democrats and 17 nays from republicans. And the same, straight along party lines. So we now look ahead to the next critical phase. Lets go over to capitol hill right now. Manu raju is watching all of this history unfold right now. First of all, manu, what are you hearing from lawmakers . Democrats are defending the fact this was a party line vote. This is such a rare thing to see an american president on the verge of being impeached. Initially at the outset, nancy pelosi wanted any sort of impeachment action to be bipartisan. But democrats are saying that they had no choice but to act and that theyre accusing the republicans of siding with the president rather than siding with wh
Report by midapril latest and he may need to exclude certain portions, ie, grand jury testimony and classified information and information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interest of peripheral third parties. Today republicans on the House Judiciary Committee put up a passionate fight to defend the president and his privacy. But it was democratic chairman jerry nadler that said no way, we want every single page in full. The Trump Administration has an idea, they want to redact the Mueller Report before they provide it to congress. The department of justice said the proposal is a means to protect Sensitive Information that would not ordinarily be made part of the record. But we have reason to suspect this administrations motives. The Mueller Report probably isnt the, quote, total exoneration, unquote, the president claims it to be. What the attorney general tell us that the principal finding of the report were, no new indictment or no new sealed indic
Democrats should be. It is worth noting that just they should not impeach donald these two weeks have marked a trump and she claims thats what he wants. Longer weight by democrats than i think what really got to when republicans handle their him was these poor cases and the contempt vote against eric holder in 2012. Fact that the House Democrats to the House Committee voted to pass impeachment. Thats where he wants us to be. Hold eric holder in contempt of Speaker Boehner Speaker Boehner says the full house of representative will this is speaker employee epe vote next week, eric holder in attempt to manage she representing things that are contempt of congress. The entire saga, the impeachable but also saying Committee Vote from the house shes not ready to go there. Floor was quick. It was eight days to do it. Tonight here we are, all these obstruction of justice, yes, it could be impeachable. Other stuff have been over two weeks. 15 days in 15 days in counting. I think impeachment is d
Fireworks. We expect republicans to continue to offer amendments to try to undercut the two articles of impeachment. The articles the democrats put forward alleging abuse of power in the president s handling wrel in relation to ukraine and not cooperating with the impeachment inquiry. Republicans plan to offer, according to doug collins told me, a good many number of amendments still and that could take several hours to get through. Ultimately a decision for republicans to decide if theyre satisfied, essentially tired and want to move on. Desire by some to go to the White House Christmas Congressional Ball today where President Trump is attending. That could motivate things to get wrapped up before 7 00 or so. Nevertheless, we expect an ultimate vote on articles of impeachment, the two articles, taken by the House Judiciary Committee to be taken today, approved along party lines and sent to the full house nap vote will take place probably by middle next week. At this moment, jake, Repu