For the border wall, 5. 7 billion in return for temporary protected status for the dreamers and refugees in this country. As well as reopening the shutdown. Disruption keeps growing after the standoff over the president s border wall reaches day 30 point we are into the fifth week of the shutdown. We are honored on this very irregular program for the Vice President of the United States, mike pence. Mr. Vice president , welcome. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Chris we were going to have from kevin Court Reviewing within this plan but i will ask you now, what the president offer . A goodfaith compromise to address what is a genuine humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border. And ends the Government Shutdown the senate leadership, connell has agreed to bring this bill to the floor on tuesday. Congress will begin its work. Really what the president did over the last month and notably over the last two weeks was direct our team to meet with rankandfile democrats.
Out. Nancy pelosi says democrats have a spring in their step this morning after those historic votes. What she does not have confidence in is the senates Top Republican. We would hope there would be a fair protcessprocess, just asd hope they would honor the constitution. By the way, i heard some of what Mitch Mcconnell said today, and it reminded me that our founders, when they wrote the constitution, they suggested there could be a rogue president. I dont think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a rogue senator in the senate at the same time. We begin right there with a new chapter for the trump impeachment debate and sharp new salvos from all the key players. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says all democrats today are proud. It seems like people have a spring in their step because the president was held accountable for his reckless behavior. No one is above the law, and the constitution is the framed law of the land. No one is above the law, and the president has been hel
Impeached. Being doing better than ever before. We did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong. And we have tremendous support in the Republican Party. The vote fell down mostly partisan lines. Surprise coming after the voting. That was Speaker Pelosi not sending the articles to the senate. We have legislation approved by the rules committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment. So far we havent seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fair and when we see what that is, we will send it over. No indication this morning when she plans to send and what happens next really anybodys guess. As for the vote here is where it broke down. Article one abuse of power 230 to 197. Tulsi gabbard voted present. Obstruction of congress. Three democrats defecting again van d drew and peterson and jared goldman. Gavin again present and issuing a video statement explaining her vote. When i cast my vote in support of the impeachment inquiry, nearly
Joining us now, david gregory, rachael bade, and jennifer rodgers. David gregory, lets put those four faces back on the screen that the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer says he wants to see in a Senate Impeachment trial. This is the opening salvo from senator schumer in the negotiations with Mitch Mcconnell which will begin soon. And to me what this looks like is schumer trying to put pressure on republicans now. Saying if you dont want to hear from these fact witnesses, from these four people who have first hand knowledge of what transpired, its on you to explain why. Its clear they seem to want more witnesses. They want more of a spectacle for this trial. Its a sign that democrats are trying to keep the investigation going. Lets get closer to the truth with the people who actually know if youre saying were relying on people farther away from the action, give us these witnesses. I think its unlikely to happen. I think mcconnell is unlikely to agree on that. I think the prevailing
Kbrooech grievances that he laid out in a sixpage irate letter to nancy pelosi. It was filled with false and misleading claims along with personal attacks on democratic lawmakers. Pelosi called that, quote, sick. Lets go to capitol hill live and bring in suzanne malveaux. What a day, suzanne. Reporter sbuabsolutely. We are here in the hall to mark this momentous occasion. I covered the impeachment of bill clinton in 1998, that was nearly 21 years ago to the day. But amazingly, it is eerily familiar. The mood here, it is quiet before the storm as president donald j. Trump becomes the third president ever to be impeached. A momentous day in American History as the house holds its vote to impeach President Trump. In just hours, lawmakers will hold a final debate of the articles of impeachment alleging the president pause eabused his and obstructed congress. Last night in a party vote, the rules committee voted to allow six hours of debate before the floor vote giving equal time to both pa