Environment. In washington dc, Thejudiciary Committee of the us house of representatives has been debating for around two hours now the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After a spirited discussion theyll most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. The house is dominated by the democrats. If the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate controlled by the republicans in the new year. Our north america correspondent peter bowes joins us now. Talk us through the process here. This is a very political process. And extremely political process did again what is happening right now is that the Judiciary Committee are considering in detail those two articles of impeachment, essentially the charge sheet against donald trump. But it is political because at this stage it is the democrats who have the majority of the Judiciary Committee and indeed in the house of representatives so the end of the day it seems that when they get
In washington dc, Thejudiciary Committee of the us house of representatives has been debating for around two hours now the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After a spirited discussion theyll most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. The house is dominated by the democrats. If the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate controlled by the republicans in the new year. I spoke to our north america correspondent, peter bowes, about what is a constitutional but very political process, an extremely political process. What is happening right now is that the Judiciary Committee are considering in detail those two articles of impeachment, essentially the charge sheet against donald trump. But it is political because at this stage it is the democrats who have the majority of the Judiciary Committee and indeed in the house of representatives so the end of the day it seems that when they get the vote from this Committee Late
In washington, dc, Thejudiciary Committee of the us house of representatives has been debating for around three hours now the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. The house is dominated by the democrats. If the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate, controlled by the republicans, in the new year. I spoke to our north america correspondent peter bowes about what is a constitutional but very political process. Whats happening right now is that the Judiciary Committee are considering in detail those two articles of impeachment, essentially the charge sheet against donald trump. But its political because at this stage its the democrats who have the majority on the Judiciary Committee, and indeed in the house of representatives. So it seems at the end of the day, when they get the vote from this Committee Late on thursday and the full hous
A few moments and they are expected to unveil the exact text of proposals articles of impeachment those would still have to be approved by the fall house is something that could take place in the coming days and we have our White House Correspondent kimberly hocket who is standing by for us also with us. On capitol hill in washington heidi we start with you how do we expect this to play out. Fully there is a caution that these articles are not yet finalized will see them veiled in the minutes that come but the reports are to expect 2 articles of impeachment to be read they will be abuse of power saying on allegations that trump put his own political interests above that of the country when he asked for investigations into his political opponents and the 2nd article of impeachment likely to be obstruction of Congress Based on the president s efforts to not cooperate with impeachment investigators refusing to allow members of his staff to testify and refusing to hand over documents now t
Where a rape victim has been set on fire on her way to court for a hearing. On violent scenes on the streets of paris france is paralyzed by a massive nationwide strike by president mark rounds pension reforms. And arpita service in doha with all the days sport bahrain and saudi arabia will contest the arabian gulf cup final the saudis overcame host nation in a politically charged semifinal in doha. A low very warm welcome to the program and on historic step today the Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the u. S. House of representatives to draft articles of impeachment of formal charges against President Donald Trump she said he had abused his power for his own political benefit by withholding military aid in a bid to get ukraine to investigate his rival Democrat Joe Biden well this move sets off the official process for a vote in the house of representatives which is expected to pass the Democratic Chamber before christmas it then heads to a full trial in the republican dominated senate t