and if senator mcconnell deviates from that, it will be pap bli the word unfather is too gentle for what it will be. thank you so much for being with us tonight. i hope you don t mind if we keep you on speed dial. i think the next few weeks we re going to need some grounding in the founding documents in this country in order to find our way here. thanks for being with us tonight. my pleasure. thanks to you. more to come. stay with us. e to come. stay with us mike bloomberg s never been afraid of tough fights,
he s a private citizen. vice president gerald ford has been sworn in to replace him. the country is catching its breath. from this absolutely unprecedented thing, an american president had never been forced from office in the middle of his term by a scandal until this moment. and like a week and a half after that, a week and a half later, there s the judiciary committee, oh, by the way we actually have to finish this. here s our 528-page report on the impeachment investigation. this is the report that would have guided the floor vote on the articles of impeachment against nixon if we d gotten that far, but we didn t because he quit. but still, here s the report. yeah, you ve got to finish it out, right? they did this whole investigation. it occasioned this incredible moment in american history. this is the formal record of what happened, so you ve got to finish it. even though nixon was gone, here it is for the record. but even then, there were still more surprises.
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and again you ve got nadler and collins there. here s the washington post, article 1, abuse of power. article ii obstruction of congress. rancor ahead of historic vote, judiciary panel weighs charges. anger fuels marathon impeachment debate. all the way across the country this was the san francisco chronicle today. house panel on brink of historic vote. other side of the country again, this was the tampa bay times, fierce debate ahead of vote. this was the arizona republic. this is interesting. look at their headline, right, they said partisans hold the line in the impeachment debate but then they focus in on members of congress who are on the judiciary committee who are from arizona. arizona representatives remain united with their parties as judiciary panel argues over articles against the president. so focusing in on members of congress from their state and saying, yeah, they re sticking with their party lines. i just have two more to show
that said, i feel like the universe rescued me a little bit on this because the front pages of today s newspapers around the country were still kind of awesome even if they weren t those headlines that i predicted about them passing the articles. i mean, just to capture the moment of where we are, the front pages of today s papers around the country were kind of amazing. this was the l.a. times front page today, on the brink of impeachment vote. they ve got that two man shot with jerry nadler in his glasses looking very sober and next to him is the top republican on the committee, doug collins. what s he doing? he s like blowing up an imaginary invisible beach ball, making this incredible grimace. this was the arkansas democrat gazette, impeachment hearing rancorous, divided panel moves house closer to vote.