that s very substantial because it looks like preview of what the overall impeachment vote was going to look like. matt s point there is great that republicans have been attacking the process for being behind closed doors, for not having enshrined due process rights. all of that exists in the resolution they voted on today which they all voted against. it strikes me also, sheryl, that everyone here is kind of in for a penny, in for a pound. this vote might not be the impeachment vote but everyone understood what the vote is t today, and no one s really going to get away with separating out the different procedural votes and the eventual vote. i think that s exactly right. this vote was tantamount to an impeachment vote or a vote that said you re for this process or you re against this process. r and i think that s why republicans really held together. it was very important to president trump, frankly, that not a single republican voted in favor of this.
care, protecting people with pre-existing conditions and ot trying to protect people from being sold junk plans. two weeks ago it was pensions. we are every week focused on something that the american people that they want us to be focused onto make their lives better. thank you very much. joining me now two reporters who have been covering today s historic vote. sheryl, this was not always a fait accompli and by the time the vote was taken it felt like that, but what was the mood on the hill today? i think the mood was very somber, i think it was freighted, you know, with the weight of history. we saw in the debate a very impassioned debate. speaker nancy pelosi quoted from the constitution, kevin mccarthy the republican leader quoted
it s pretty marshy back there. it says it s tough to get through. it s chalking. cops, deputies, volunteer firefighters. . maybe some clues. any type of grounded or submission loo that. everybody waiting for something to the detectives. a lot of pressure. bens pressure. we d work on it every single day. new leads coming in. he just kept checking a way at a. sprfs cleaning time. a woman called in and had found something on the edge of her property. how far was this with. 2.3 miles. that s a route that many people leaving the party would have taken. sheryl, this is her. she told the detectives she was cleaning up a winter s r worth
election for the president s own personal benefit. and it s not something that happened in the past. this is not 2016 and candidate trump and russia yeah, it is a confined incident. this is something that s happened right now and it s a national security issue, democrats say. and it s an issue of election security. and they have a constitutional obligation to investigate it s interesting, sheryl. sorry to cut you off because the president has tweeted in the past couple of minutes about the whistle-blower saying he feels that he should be allowed to meet the accusers, he refers to them. especially when this accuser, the so-called whistle-blower represented a conversation with a leader and also then goes onto say in addition i want to meet not only my accuser who presented second and thirdhand information but also the person who illegally gave this
that showed a majority of democrats favor the decision to open an impeachment inquiry. and what pelosi said to her colleagues was this is a very solemn time and our tone must be respectful, it must be solemn. and that is the message that democratic leaders have sent to their rank and file as the lawmakers go out to their districts this week and next. the message that they want their constituents or their colleagues rather to give is one of president trump abused his oath of office and we will follow the facts. and they you know, they realized that this is a very, very grave moment. this is the most solemn undertaking that any congress can engage in. so there s no doubt, sheryl, this was triggered by the whistle-blower complaint specifically. the whole issue of ukraine, it is coming as we just outlined on