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Whether they want to hear from the witnesses. those votes will be on a threshold. republicans have 53 seats in the senate. if mcconnell gets his way. however, mcconnell and democratic leader, chuck schumer, still need to meet. they have a sitdown to agree with what the rules of the road will be. what pelosi is doing, saying she will not send over the articles of impeachment until she has an understanding of whether that process will be fair, is giving chuck schumer a little bit of leverage when ...

Been formally impeached by the house of representatives for abuse of congress. the gavel has come down. we noted -- >> abuse of power. >> when they reached 216 votes, they reached the threshold. we now have this incredibly grave moment where the house of representatives is saying to the world -- yes, it was a partisan vote. but guess what? democrats control the house. thats how it is. just like republicans control the senate. they will have their say. this is a very grave moment where the house ...

Would enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. we cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the senate side. and i hope that will be soon, as we did with our legislation, our resolution 660, to describe what the process would be. so far, we havent seen anything that looks fair to us. hopefully, it will be fair. and when we see what that is, well send up our managers. >> reporter: to give a behind-the-scenes explanation, this is in part of a leverage p...

Counterpoint to that, and i totally agree with you about his supporters. i think one of the things that can vote donald trump out of office is his own behavior. the problem with this impeachment is its about his conduct. so the more he does things that reinforce the pects of his conduct that voters are tired of or never liked in the first place and arent willing to tolerate any more for whatever reason, im not sure that -- >> i guess my response would be i dont understand why this, even though i...

But its a great day for constitutional democracy. >> two votes away now. two votes away from the article two passing. the resolution passing. thats obstruction of congress. they have already voted on article one. that has passed, the abuse of power resolution. this will be the final article of impeachment to be voted on. they are two votes away. they are one vote away from adopting this article two, obstruction of congress. of course, the question is, where does it go from here? it moves to the ...

Forth in a trial. hes willing to have the first stage of a trial take place and if members still want witnesses to come, perhaps hold votes on whether they want to hear from the witnesses. those votes will be on a threshold. republicans have 53 seats in the senate. if mcconnell gets his way. however, mcconnell and democratic leader, chuck schumer, still need to meet. they have a sitdown to agree with what the rules of the road will be. schumer has laid out his proposal, saying he wants witnesses...

>> tucker: i hope you dont mind staying there dana for a minute. go to chad pergram on the hill to explain any remaining questions that we have of the pictures we have up taking up over half of the screen. thanks very much for coming on. >> surely. this is the actual vote. the first article of impeachment dealing with abuse of power. what happens when they start a vote series, tucker, the vote is open for about 15 minutes on the clock. but, in reality, it runs about 2025. you try to get 431 memb...

>> tucker: so, i hope you dont mind staying there, dana, for a minute. we go to chad pergram on the hill to explain any remaining questions about the pictures we have up, taking up over half of the screen. thanks very much for coming on. >> surely. this is the actual vote. the first article of impeachment dealing with abuse of power. now, what happens when they start a vote series, tucker, the vote is open for about 15 minutes on the clock. but, in reality, it runs about 20, 25. you try to get 4...

Witnesses, but only a few, and only if they can add to the case to convict the president. >> and in contrast to what todays republicans are saying right now at the time those congressional republicans backed adding those witnesses to the trial. >> you never call any witnesses in the house, why are you insisting on witnesses in the senate? >> thats an important distinction. the threshold in the house was whether or not there was enough evidence to you submit it to the senate for a trial. we were ...

And surnld to win iowa. the politics of the impeachment im setting aside. as far as our pathway forward i am looking forward to going in and being god willing our nomination to take on this goliath and take down this juggernaut of an overly funded super pac fueled person that thinks his money is going to buy him a victory. no. the people will speak in november of 2020 and i look forward to being the selected person to take him down and resurrect that obama rainbow coalition we need not just to b...