came, there was a lot of politicking and debate. you think about to immigration, over spending, over war, over the financial crisis, over keeping government open. i was a former congressional reporter so i was down on the hill to see what was the mood like yesterday on the hill? unlike many of those other votes when the debate was going up and there was arm twisting going on, sometimes the floor itself during the debate, yesterday it was totally a foregone conclusion. i m reminded of things like the medicare expansion debate. it was only a vote held open for three hours in the middle of the night to get final vote. or even sort of during the trump administration some of these votes been very consequential to the last minute. we didn t know that brett kavanaugh was going to be confirmed to the supreme court until susan collin gave her speech just hours before the final vote. and remember the big one on the repeal of the affordable care act, we didn t know how that was going down until t
the republicans are in complete control. arguably, it s potentially possible that they could make a motion dismiss in the first few minutes of this senate trial. that s how much power the republicans have, once it gets to the senate. they create the rules. in all likelihood, what we saw in the clinton impeachment trial was that the, you saw senator kennedy, and senator trent lott get together and hammer out the rules. i expect it to be a lot more contentious this time around. and i think when we get to the trial in the senate, it s going to be less heated, and less debate than we saw in the house, but i think it is going to be a lot faster because republicans are not going to let it get out of hand. let s talk quickly about nancy pelosi s decision and her play to kind of force mitch mcconnell here to make some concessions to make this a fair process if at all possible. what is the risk, if in fact, this stalls too long, and there is no movement by the house speaker to the senate side
divided. my vote today is a vote for much needed reconciliation and hope that together, we can heal our country, to usher in a bright future for the american people, our country, and our nation. still ahead, we are taking a look at some of the top moments from yesterday s historic impeachment debate including a fight that erupted after chairman jerry nadler accused a republican congressman of spreading russian prop dan ga. two weeks ago, invoking barron trump and then the president did it himself at the michigan rally. those stories when we come back and a check on weather. when we and a check on weather [ suspenseful music ]
quite a 24 hours or so. it is thursday, december 19th. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. president donald trump is now the third u.s. president to be impeached by the house. the first article against him, obstruction of justice, was adopted shortly after 8:30 p.m. last night following 12 hours of debate, the second article of, obstruction of congress, came less than 20 minutes later. two democrats voted against the first article, three voted against the second. republican turned independent justin amash voted to impeach on both counts. while congresswoman tulsi gabbard voted present on both. here is how speaker nancy pelosi called the vote, and keeping her caucus in line. watch this. on this vote, the ayes are 230, and the nays are 197. present is one. article one is adopted.