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More tonight from cnn's alex marquart. >> reporter: a roller coaster of a week, one that took the impeachment inquiry to new heights and set the stage for a historic showdown on capitol hill. democrats and republicans in lock step with their parties as the deeply divided house of representatives voted on thursday to make the inquiry official. two democrats joined the republican minority in voting against it, which the gop claimed as a bipartisan victory. >> the only bipartisan vote on that floor was against. >> reporter: while democrats who won the vote struck a somber tone and argued they had...

Presidency, then he may force us to go down this road. i have spoken with a number of my colleagues over the last week, and this seals different in kind. and we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. >> and it's not just democrats sounding the alarm. there's this tweet from utah republican senator mitt romney. he's saying if the president asked or pressured ukraine's president for information on his political rival it would be troubling through the extreme, critco critical for the facts to come out. jeremy diamond is in ohio where the president was earlier today. there's no evidence of a...

Ukrainian president to investigate one of his political rivals, the former vice president joe biden. and all of that happening of course as the president was withholding military aid to ukraine. none of that has stopped the president from continuing to talk about this story, really pumping up these unverified allegations about the former vice president. >> what you have to do is look at the corruption on the democrat side. take a look how the whole witch hunt started. now they want to try to start another witch hunt but unfortunately now this one is reverting to joe biden because he's done som...

There are yet more shakeups at the top of u.s. intelligence and intelligence agencies. the nation's number two intelligence official stepping down. president trump making the announcement on twitter writing, sue gordon is a great professional with a long and distinguished career. i've gotten to know sue over the past two years and have developed great respect for her. meanwhile within hours trump naming joseph mcgwire as his pick for acting director of national intelligence. yet one more acting head of agencies in this government. alex marquart with me now. so tell me about sue's departure bec...

And i think we're seeing the shifts because, truthfully, i hate to say it this way, but the military is getting wise to him. he likes the military when he can use it in his speeches and when he can use it for his props. but i think many people who wear the uniform or who have worn the uniform are beginning to become a little bit more wise to his ways and what he's doing with the military. as part of the defender of our country versus his political props. >> it's been an interesting year for the military as well as everybody else when it comes to this president. general, thank you. good to see ...