New impeachment evidence. And the third impeachment trial in American History begins. We are here today to cross an important threshold in American History. What happens next adds the managers are selected, documents are signed and the senate trial begins. This is a difficult time for our country. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes, and a lot is happening today. All over the world, across the United States and especially on capitol hill. Just hours ago, the house voted to send the two articles of impeachment against president trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress to the senate for a trial. Speaker nancy pelosi named seven house members as impeachment managers. Those are the folks that will act as prosecutors. They are adam schiff, jefferies of new york, jason crow of colorado and Sylvia Garcia of texas. After the speaker signed the articles of impeachment, they walked the articles to the house to the senate. What is to come later this week
Articles of impeachment, they new impeachment evidence. Walked the articles to the house and the third impeachment trial in american his to the senate. What is to come later this week. But todays vote concludes the nearly fourweek period during week Speaker Pelosi held back those two articles, a strategy that drew quite a bit of criticism. It is true that the case for impeaching the president was very strong when they voted to do so last month. But since then, since Speaker Pelosis decision to hold them back, the case has only gotten stronger. We found out the military aid to ukraine was withheld at the president s direction, that the freeze came the day of trumps phone call with the ukrainian president. We learned that mike pompeo, mark esper and john bolton staged an intervention in a meeting with trump to get him to release the aid. And john bolton, who referred to the president s ukraine scheme infamously as a drug deal announced he would testify before the senate if he was subpoen
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