The full house could vote on the articles of impeachment as soon as next week. Coming up fast. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us covering the impeachment investigation for us from the beginning. Nancy, good morning. We have two articles, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Were used to hearing obstruction of justice. This is obstruction of congress. Can you walk us through the two articles and tell us what they mean. Reporter absolutely. Abuse of power, democrats say, has to do with the president s attempt to use miss office for personal gain contrary to national interest. They say when the president asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden at the same time mr. Trump was withholding 400 million worth of military aid to ukraine that that hurt u. S. National security and it was meant to benefit mr. Trump and his reelection effort and solely mr. Trump. Moving on from there, obstruction of congress. That has to do with all of the ways in which democrats say this
Treason, rivalry or other high crimes and misdemeanors. It is basically where the president commits, orus any officer commits a serious crime, that would be and Impeachable Offense. A serious abuse of his discretion could also constitute and Impeachable Offense, even if it is not a crime. What do we call the process going on right now in the house . Is this an impeachment . Impeachment inquiry . This is called an impeachment inquiry. This is where the house has decided that there is enough evidence out there, potential evidence out there that may warrant articles of impeachment. This is the point at which they are investigating. Sort of like a grand jury. Deciding whether or not to indict, or, in this case, impeach the president. If they draw articles of impeachment, then it still goes in the full house to decide whether or not to adopt one or more of the articles of impeachment. After that, if they are adopted by the house, then it goes to the senate for a trial. We have heard a lot o
Republicans hes cautioned against beach meant and of course at the heart of all this youre recall is the democrats that the case for the democrats is the allegation that president try to leverage a white house meeting and military aid which was sought by ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president vladimir selenski to nongenetic ations a former Vice President joe biden any son hunter by the so happening right now in the House Judiciary Committee 45 minute question period for the republicans and the republicans so far interesting only focusing on their witness Jonathan Turley professor of law Washington University lets continue to listen you have to understand the most the senators when when it was said. They jumped into their political graves it was true most of their political careers ended they knew they would and because of the animosity of the period triangle said the following once this set the example of an peaching a president for what when the excitement of the hour shall have
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Well lets get more on this were joined now by casey back at a resident signified over in the governments project of the Australian Institute of say libertarian think tank and hes joining us live from washington d. C. Yesterday get very good to have you with us on aljazeera now this policy putting the procedure to avoid it does it mean that the democrats think that they have a very strong case from the private testimonies which will play well publicly do you think. Right thats thats what everyones waiting to see the speaker putting this to a vote does a couple things one it signals that theyre ready to move to the public phase of the inquiry they feel that theyve collected enough information with their their behind the scenes depositions that they have a strong case to make to the American People and 2nd it undercuts a lot of the procedural process arguments that the republicans have been lobbing at the democrats saying that this president hasnt been given his rights hes been given no d