Overnight. Its wednesday december 18th early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A monumental morning in washington, d. C. , where the house will likely vote to impeach President Trump by days end. For six hours lawmakers will debate the two articles charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress before casting their votes this evening if the house does impeach the president , his senate trial is expected to begin early next month. And mr. Trump will find himself in rarefied company. Only two president s have ever been impeached Andrew Johnson and bill clinton the senate acquitted both. Richard nixon did face the threat of removal, but he resigned before a full house vote expect today to closely mirror december 19th, 1998. Thats when the house voted mostly along party lines to impeach president clinton on two charges. Nbcs tracie potts joining us now with details from d. C. Tracie, weve got a historic d
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
Missile strikes but the u. S. And saudi arabia they have been pretty categorical in blaming iran but a senior military adviser to irans Supreme Leader has defended the attack on Saudi Oil Facilities at home i can only. Live them is with a retell atory operation yemenis in fact carried out a legitimate defense of themselves against a priss that killed their children the reality is that america and its allies in aggressors against palestine and yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repudiation of america and its allies is declining. And within the past hour or so President Trumpet said that the us has now expanded its sanctions on iran to include the in rainy and National Bank right now we can speak to not only his director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver we are lucky enough to have him here with us here in doha thank you for joining us at this point then we have saudi arabia a
Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet
Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c