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Today, the house took a major step toward initiating the fourth impeachment effnd it laid out where the process proceeds from here. Lisa desjardins begins o coverage. Desjardins it is the rareson ofessional debates, about procedures for the possible impeachment of a president. B i truieve that 100 years from now, historians e ll look back at this moment and judge us by cisions we make here today. This moment calls for more than politics. No matter what is said by the other side today, this is a dark day, and a cloud has fallen on this house. Desjardins this was the house opening a new, far more defined phase in impeachment, voting on the process ahead, and putting lawmakers the record for the First Time Since concerns rose about President Trumps requests to ukraines on this vote, the yays are 232, the nays are 196. Desjardins it was almost a Straight Party split, with the exception of two democrats who broke ranks. The two sides do agree on something the stakes involved. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the times have found each and every one of us in this room to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. What is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy. Desjardins republicans are blasting democrats impeachment process, held behind closed doors so far, as unfair to the president. It is absolutely the caseat t has been a secret process that has denied rights to the minority, that has involved leaking selectively things that the majority would like to have leaked, in which rights have absolutely been denied. Desjardins the resolution toy sets up a twopart process, first with hearings by the Intelligence Committee, led by adam schiff, to gather facts, he say the resolution, from the perspective of the Intelligence Committee, sets out important procedures for how we maen conduct our earings. Desjardins then, if impeachment is recommended, the house judiciary committee, led by jerry nadler, would take it up and, at that point, allow foh president and his lawyers to be involved. But republicans sathat is too late, that initial hearis without that ability will taint the process. The problem im havin, here e resolution before us today is not about transparency, its about control. In desja at the white house, press secretary Stephanie Grisham accused democrats of having an unhinged obsession withhis illegitimate impeachment proceeding. For his part, President Trump turned to his favored retort during the russia investigation, calling the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt. Meanwhile, house investigators heard from tim morrison, the top russia expert on the National Security staff. A day after stepping down from his post. Morrison was repeatedly mentioned in earlier testimony from William Taylor, currethly top diplomat in ukraine. Schifrin and Lisa Desjardins joins me now, with White House Correspondent yamiche alcindor. Welcome to you both. Yamiche, lets start where lisa left off. What did timorrison say behind closed doors, as far as we know, today in the impeachment proceeding. Tim corroborated what willi taylor told lawmakers last week. Essentially, democrats are saying that this was stunning testimony that William Taylor was saying that people were very concerned about what people in the u. S. Government were tellinu ukraine this investigation into the bidens. The way tim morrison fi into this is he was a person who alerted William Taylor. He said he went to them twice. The first time adhe said he h a conversation that said, look, i think gordon sond sondland is gg to the ukraine officials to have investigation into the biden to secure millions of dollars in military aid already appropriated by congress. He goes to taylor a second tie and said i have a sinking feeling because Gordon Sondland said he talked to the president and the president said no quid pro quo and still demanding the ukrainian officials are still opening an investigation into the bidens. So morrison is saying most of what William Taylor told you last week is true. Inside the rooh m, botrties thought he said something that helped them. Them. Schifrin hows that . He said he didnt hear anything illegal per se in the call, and yamiche was talking about something also democrats mentioned. Schifrin godon sondland, u. S. Ambassador to the e789 u, close to President Trump, what is the significance of him in the middle of it the combined stories of tim morrison and acting ambassador William Taylor. Tim morrison gives credibility to what taylor said. First is that tim morrison essentially says i was not concerned that anything illegal was dscussed. Then you have William Taylor who said actually i thought it was crazy military aid was hld for political Means Associated with the president. Two people said we herdahe same thing with you have different takes on what it means icr u. S. Poland National Security. Schifrin what were talking about is the substance of the impeachment proceeding. How did each side rally thetr ps on a real partisan vote . There are not just high stakes but High Pressure for both parties. When you talkbout democrats and how theyre looking about this, theyre thinking about two thin, telling members in vulnerable districts, first, theyre tryi to stress as a process this is not a vote on impeachment, and second theyre seeing polling moving in the airection of impeachment. In fact the mjority of americans in the polls want an impeachment inquiry to move forward. At what democrats feel good about in terms of what theyre doing. T they only loo vulnerable democrats, both in major trump districts, but thats two democrats who feel the process may be unfair. For the repnsublithe pressure, message, all of it is coming from the white house, something yamiche knootws a about. President trump mewith some of the republicans yesterday from the house and basically frm someone who was there he said it was a very relaxed message because he said were nothi confident ins process and we are where the president is now. Schifrin where is thewh president now is the message coming out to have the white house and the republicans and how does that differ from ae cof the previous messages . Tay was a huge moment in the president it presidency. S really now him looking forward and saying i am looking at a formal impeachment inquiry process and i need to really get my strategy together. Essentially the president s message today to the president and republicans who gathered at the white house yesterdaand today is this is a total sham, no matter what democrats do from here forrd, all of this is unfair to me. That is an issue because ths has been an evolving message. First republicans said the president didnt pressure ukraine, then they said this is all secondhand knowledge, then they said we neea house floor vote on the impeachment inquiry theyve had to adjust their messages becausef all the things were talking about. There was a vote, a call memo came out, people on the call saying i had issues from the moment i heardtr presidenp talk about joe biden in relation to this military aid. Schifrin rev he republicans all day challenging the rules set today as different from those rules during the inton impeachment hearin are they different . If you come away with one thing from thessro understand the difference is theres a two step process the hous house intelligence come will have public hearings, we didnt see that in watergate and clinton because there were previous investigations leading into impeachment. Here the Intelligence Committee is doing a first investigation. Republics are right, in that portion of it the president does not have a right to question testimony or witnesses. But theres the second part of the process which is house judiciary committee, suld impeachment move forward, and that process is almost exa tly parallwhat weve seen in b impeachmenefore. Schifrin i want to come back to a thing smany people have talked about today. Freslan democrat katy hil of california resigned and gave an incredible speech. Lets listen to a brief part of it. His is bigger than me. I am leaving now because of a i am leaving beause i no longer want to be used as a baringa chip. Im leaving because i didnt want to be pedal by papers and blogs and web site used byop shamelesratives for the dirtiest gutter politics ive ever seen. Schifrin w are people talking about this . This congress is younger than before, two dozen in 2s and 30s now, this is a new lnerability you have where pictures you took in private on your iphone used against you, its a new kind of scandal. Her defense is new, its a more personal and assertive defense than ever seen in a departing member of congress. Sch Lisa Desjardins, thank you so much. Thank you. Schifrin in the days other news, Southern California faced another assault by wildfires driven by major winds. And now, firefighters are battling new flames. Heres stephanie sy. Reporter before dawn in san bernardino, santa ana winds sent a blowtorch burning through half a dozen homes. Flames raced downhill, driven by gusts of up to 70 miles an hour, and with little warning. Ou i smell smoke. People started screaming down the street and everything else, so we came out and started wetting things down. And ings kind of went downhi from there. Reporter crews battled to turn bk the fire, but the fierce wind made it difficult, and dangerous. In short order, ficials ordered some 1,300 residents to evacuate 500 homes, as the fire kept spreading. This fire moves so fast a continues to have the potential to move so quick that if folks dont evacuate when we ask them to, it will be very difficult to try to get them out. Reporter in northern californias wine country, most mandatory evacuations for the kincade fire have now been lifted, and Pacific Gas Electric has moved to restorewe poto hundreds of tusands of people. Some had been in the dark since the weekend. Residents at this lowincome senior facility in the san francio bay area say they were trapped for two days. It was total darkness in every hallway, every stairwell and all three of the buildings. Outside assistance wasnt he at all. We were left on our own. Reporter fire conditions i have nowmproved in the north, as the wind dies down, and Officials Say the winds in Southern California should ease tonight. For the pbs newshour, im eaephanie sy. Schifrin theers strike in chicago is o the Teachers Union agreed today to go back to work, after the eed to make up five of the 11 school days lost to the strike. The two sides had already reached a tentative deal with. Pay raises over five yea mayor Lori Lightfoot welcomed the outcome. Enough is enough, a so in a spirit of compromise we agreed. It was a hardfought discussion. Took us a lot of time to get there. But i think this is the right thing ultimately for our city, and im glad that this phase i over. Schifrin the end of the strike means more than 300,000 students cano back to class tomorrow. The Islamic State group todayat confirmed the of its leader, abu bakr albaghdadi, and vowed revenge. He died in a u. S. Raid last weekend, in syria. An isis audio statement named his successor as abubrahim alhashimi alqurayshi, but gave no details. U. S. Troops have returned to northeast syria, weeks after withdrawing from the region. Armored vehicles flying american flags patrolled today just four miles south of the turkish. Border an iraqikurdish tv network showed them visiting oil faciliti. President trump ordered the withdrawal earlier this month, but he said later some troops would stay to secure oil sites. The kurds say that, in theri in Turkish Forces have killed some 700 kurd fighters, who were u. S. Partners. The president of iraq called today for a w election law, with early elections to follow, amid antigornment protests. He said Prime MinisterAdel Abdulmahdi is willing to resign if political leaders agree onac his reent. But in baghdad, students clogged a major bridge and clashed with ealice, leaving one person and 60ounded. They said the Prime Ministersd resignation wot be enough. translated we want a total change of government. We dont want the firing of onea or two officia replacing them with another corrupt one. We want the government to be uprooted totally. They think that we will protest for one or two days and then go home. No. We are staying here until the government is totally uprooted. Schifrin iraq has seen waves of mass protests this month over corruption and economic want, with at least 250 people killeda in pakis fire engulfed a train in punjab province, killing at least 74 people. Officials said a gas stove explodo flames, and theblaze que some passengers jumped out the windows to escape. More than 40 people were injured, including many with serious burns. North korea fired two more projectiles into the sea today. Japan said they appeared to be ballistic missiles. South korea said they flew about 230 miles. The testing came after north pace of nuclear tath the slow u. S. Back in this country, general tors announced a recall 638,000 s. U. V. S and pickup trucks. The co sensor could fail and cause sudden, unexpected bctking. The af vehicles include chevrolet suburbans, tahoes and silverados, plus g. C. Sierras, going back to the 2014 model year. Stocks fell on wall street toy, led by losses in the Banking Sector and lingering trade concerns. The dow jones industrirage shed 140 points to close at 27,046. The nasdaq lost 11 points, and the s p 500 slipped nine. And, the Washington Nationals are celebrating their first world series tle. They won it last night in houston, beating the astros 6to2, in game seven. The capital citys streets erupted in celebration with dancing and cheering crowds. No Washington Team had won a world series since 1924. Well have more on the nats, later in the program. Still to come on the newshour the u. S. House votes, and the inquiry begins. H why twitter is banning all political ads on the platform. After 39 migrants are found dead stem human trafficng int take to europe . And much more. Schifrin now that the u. S. House ofepresentatives approved rules for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, what happens now . Hi democrat adam of california is the chairman of the house intelligench committee, ws playing a central role in the impeachmt effort. Chairman schiff, tha. You very mu welcome wack to the newshour. Todays vote was entirely along party lines. How do you convince the pubc that this is not a partisan attempt to, as the president says, overturn the election . Well, i think by letting the public hear from the witnesses themselves at the end of the day, this is all about the facts, what are the facts, and i think the American People ll see that there are very Serious Problems with the esidents conduct, grave problems in terms of his abuse of the powers of thatof ce, his sacrificing of u. S. Interests, our National Security interes in favor of personal and political interests. So i think the best way tohow the American People why we had to take this serious step of moving forward with our impeachmt inquiry will be allowing the American People to hear firsthand from those that were eyewitnses to this kind of abuse of power. Schifrin republicans call your effort a parsan crew said against the president youve never liked. You yoursf for years have been criticizing many of President Trumps National Security decisions. Do republicans have a point . Are you going after a president that you havent liked long before ukraine became an issue . Well, it is certainly true that i take serious issues with the president on matters of licy, on matters of character for falsehood, but my republican colleagues conveniently forget the fact that, for a long time, i was one othe relatively few senior members who was urging us not to move forward with ap formal ieachment proceeding, that we should take the process one step at a time, learn the facts, that we should not rush to embrace this extraordinary remedy. It was only when this most serious conduct came to life that i felt like we had no choice. Schifrin of course, there ar