Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a historic moment for the american presidency. Last night the u. S. House of representatives voted to impeach President Trump, making him only the third u. S. President ever to be impeached. The vote on two charges was mostly along party lines. Mr. Trump is accused of abusing his power and obstructing congress in a scheme to get ukraine to dig up dirt on his political rival, joe biden. As the house debate his impeachment yesterday, President Trump held a rally in michigan where he blasted democrats. Take a listen. You are the ones obstructing justice. You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish gain. Reporter the president went on to defend himself saying he did not do anything wrong. Debra alfarone is on capitol hill. Thats the next phase now in this impeachment process . Reporter well, anne
Here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a historic day in america. The house of representatives is set to vote today on whether to impeach President Trump. The house will first debate two articles of impeachment against mr. Trump abusing his power and obstructing congress in a scheme to lure ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Mr. Trump could be only the third president to be impeached. Protesters rallied against the president in dozens of cities across the nation last night. [ chants ] some protesters in philadelphia held up lights that spelled out impeachment. In milwaukee, demonstrators had signs reading no one is above the law, and similar scenes played out on the west coast. We have more from capitol hill. How is the president responding to this historic vote today . Reporter well, annemarie, President Trump wrote a sixpage letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi. In it he said that the impeachment is worse than the salem witch trials. He also
That employees created more than 2 million fake accounts without the consent of customers in an effort to meet managements aggressive sales goals. The ceo was grilled by members of congress about the scheme and later resigned. Activists are still worry about the new ceo. Saying he may not be serious about changing the banking culture. We will be left with thousands of vulnerable customer whos have lost faith and trust in our banking system. We need to do everything that we can do to repair that. The banks as we call them the banksters, have really gotten away with murder. Murdering the dreams and the hopes of working class people, who have been robbed of their childrens inheritance. The dignity and their pride. Because a bank is too big to fail. Reporter last month, californias treasurer took similar actions, suspending many of the states financial ties with wells fargo because of the scandal. Supervisor avalos says the city of San Francisco has a relatively small amount of funds with
It made mother russia a lot smaller though it is still pretty huge too. It also sits on the border separating russia from europe. Ukraine is a word that literally means border land and the southern part of it stretches across the black sea, a key water route for ferrying oil and natural gas to europe, which is russias biggest customer for the stuff that keeps the lights on. Curb sha and ukraine havent been the friendliest of neighbors since ukraine declared itself an understood pen dindep. Ukraine also had a lot of old the old soviet unions military nukes which theyve destroyed when they went independent and to the delight of western fortune hunters ukraine boasts a lot of its own oil and natural gas which partly explains why modern day ukraine is so central to the many, many scandals that beeve all been living with since President Trump become the nominee in 2016. The Trump Campaign made a single change to the entire rnc platform, just one. Watering down language that called for the p
Uniquely tragedies today. 30 lives have been claimed inside 13 hours. This morning the president denouncing white supremacist hate in a way that we have not heard him do before. He called it an evil contagion. Im Victor Blackwell in el paso, texas, where one of those gunman terrorized people in a walmart. Denial and desperation felt across this city today. Denial at what actually happened and families are reckoning this morning with the sudden voids in their lives. The desperation for a solution to stop this gun violence. We will be keeping you updated throughout the afternoon. But lets begin, victor, well get right back to you. But lets begin with a man the nation normally looks to and the person the nation normally looks to in times of crisis, the president of the United States. President trump finally addressing the nation following a weekend marked by murder. 30 souls gone between el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio. Listen. In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and Whi