His eventually obituary, that is how we wrap up our wednesday night broadcast. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. It is wednesday, the 18th Of December in the year 2019 and President Donald Trump is impeached. The vote in the House Of Representatives tonight to impeach the president was not close. It was 230 to 197 on the first article, which was abuse of power. One democrat voted present. On the second article, Obstruction Of Congress, it was a vote of 229198, again, with one vote present. These were not slim margins. The successful vote to impeach the president tonight, of course, does not remove him from office. The decision of whether or not to remove him from office will now be made in the United States senate, where hell be put on trial in a proceeding overseen
by the Chief Justice of the United States supreme court. Were talking about that as if it is a forgone conclusion, as if thats the next obvious thing
Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States president ial election to his advantage. President trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States government acts of significant value to ukraine on its Public Announcement of the investigations. President trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the National Security of the United States
On, he is surrounded by criminals. Then we hear well, it cant be obstruction of congress, you could have all gone to court. We are in december. We have an ongoing crime. We have a crime in progress. Neil youre watching history being made. Welcome everyone i am neil cavuto and this is your world. The committee is debating the articles of impeachment and will soon put it to a vote within the house Judiciary Committee. On the lower right portion of your screen, the dell racing ahead close to a record. The s p 500 got a record. Twin develop menswear following very quickly. Reports that the administration is very close on the verge of just about at a deal in principle with china. A china trade deal. A phase one deal that it will call for eliminating or at least pushing Back Hundreds of billions of Dollars Worth of tariffs on chinese goods. Including those that were supposed to kick in on about 156 billion worth of chinese goods on the 15th of this month. 12 01 on Sunday Morning Prayer that
DEAR EDITOR: Republicans vote for laws that don’t favor the average person or family. They don’t care what the voters actually want. They’ve focused on
DEAR EDITOR: Republicans vote for laws that don’t favor the average person or family. They don’t care what the voters actually want. They’ve focused on