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Good morning, everybody. Its wednesday, january 22nd, im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside Ayman Mohyeldin after 13 hours of debate the senate has passedmen mcconnell resolution laying out the ground rules for President Trumps impeachment trial. Senate republicans rejected 11 amendments most of which were seeking subpoenas from documents to the Trump Administration. Last minute changes to mcconnells proposed rules came earlier in the day. Republicans reversed their original plan for arguments to take place over two days. Now each side will have 24 hours to speak over the course of three days. Sever...

A vote against trump would remove him from office, but could it really happen in a republican controlled senate. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Donald trump will today become only the third american president to go on trial in the us senate. The impeachment hearings are about to get underway. Donald trump is acused by democrats on two counts one of abusing his power and the second of obstructing congress. But with republicans in the majority in the upper house, its highly unlikely the president will be removed from office. These are live pictures from capitol hill, where senators are arriving ...

Effect. Martha you point out that differences between the house process and the senate process where the minority is obviously sort of yelling and screaming for more power and control over the process. Im also reminded about senator Chuck Schumer back in 1999 who voted to make a motion to dismiss the charges against president clinton. And also voted against witnesses and the trial against president clinton. One other thought here for Mitch Mcconnell, nobody will dictate the process of the United States senate, hes making it clear that hes invoked the charge. Katie pavlich joins us now, i expec...

And when people in the government get worried, sometimes what they do is they draft memos because when theyre concerned about getting caught up in something that doesnt seem right, they dont want to be a part of it. So on that day, mark sandy and other colleagues at omb drafted and sent a memo about Ukraine Military aid to acting director vought. According to sandy, the memo advocated for the release of the funds. It said that the military aid was consistent with American National security interests. It would help to oppose russian aggression and it was backed by strong bipartisan support. But...

President , focus on congress because they hold our reopening in their hands and he says theres one big thing they need to do and hes doing it already in new york. Well tell you. We also have the state official refusing to bow to the president s demand that mailin voting be stopped even if states and their citizens want it because a lot of us are worried about going to vote in a pandemic. The interesting thing is trumps threat. If you have mailin voting ill defund you. We have the truth of what a president can do and the reality why trump is doing all of this in the first place. Get ready to f...