Kelsey we have got into recess here but I will say as we kick off our recess from this day long markup that you know at the end of the day as long as this is taking this is going to go down in history because this is going to be the 1st time since 1988 that Articles of Impeachment have been advanced through the House Judiciary Committee and it s going to be only the 4th time in u.s. History that there have been articles of impeachment the other 3 being Andrew Johnson who was impeached but not removed from office Richard Nixon where the Articles of Impeachment made it through the committee but not to the full house before he resigned and Bill Clinton where he was impeached in the end but not removed from office right and you know I think what is really interesting about this hearing much as we are hearing people repeating themselves is that we re really seeing a cohesive defense emerge from both Democrats and Republicans in a way that we hadn t really seen that in previous days they ar
Stop repeating themselves and move on but not. Ok let s listen as they read the results of this latest amendment and we re assuming the nos will have it as they have with the other 23. Degree 2 committee will now stand in recess for half an hour. Ok. We have gone into recess here but I will say as we kick off our recess from this day long markup that you know at the end of the day as long as this is taking this is going to go down in history because this is going to be the 1st time since 1988 Articles of Impeachment have been advanced through the House Judiciary Committee and it s going to be only the 4th time in u.s. History that there have been articles of impeachment the other 3 being Andrew Johnson who was impeached but not removed from office Richard Nixon where the articles of impeachment through the committee but not to the full house before he resigned and Bill Clinton where he was impeached in the end but not removed from office right and you know I think what is really inter
But their constituents and also the president that they don t believe that he acted in accordance with the constitution they re saying they re doing this to protect their rights as the Congress to be a check and balance on the and on the presidency you heard the number of Democrats say that they are doing this because we do not have a monarchy in the United States we average public and it is their job and duty and they believe to hold this president accountable where they see wrongdoing now Republicans are trying to dismantle that argument saying that this is entirely political. As we ve said we ve heard this argument play out over and over over the last 12 hours let s zoom out for a 2nd because if the Democrats do this evening I should say there are only 3 hours left in this evening on the. They do this evening pass these articles of impeachment through the committee and then impeach the president in the full House of Representatives it goes to a trial in the Senate but the expectati
Power for the Ukraine scandal Article 2 is for obstruction of Congress over the next 2 days the committee will be poring over the text of these 2 articles of impeachment offering amendments and debating then they ll vote on whether or not to send those articles to the full House of Representatives for a vote there every member of the House will cast their decision as to whether or not to impeach the president and send any articles to the Senate for a trial or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it is inconceivable that there are the votes to remove the president from office in studio with us tonight for gavel to gavel coverage senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving Hi Ron good to be with you Rich and congressional correspondent Kelsey snow Hi cast Hi there so Ron I want to start with you this is a historic moment no matter where you sit on the political spectrum can you put it into perspective for us if you go back to the previous 2 impeachment proceedings that
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