Against the president for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The house will act expeditiously. Thank you. Cnn correspondent manu raju is live for us on capitol hill. Tell us, manu, about this vote and what comes next. A historic partisan vote after weeks of investigation and also several days of contentious fighting in the House Judiciary Committee. Those articles approved along a party line basis by a vote of 2317. Both counts won on abuse of power alleging the president violated his oath of office in his handling of ukraine and pushing investigations into his political rival. An accusation the president used his office to do just that. Also a count on obstruction of congress, alleging the president did not participate in the impeachment inquiry, though democrats say this was unprecedented stonewalling to have a coequal branch of government. Those two now move to the house floor. That house expected to vote in the middle of next week. That vote also expected to be quite partisan, very contentious, also historic. The third time in American History a president could get impeached by the house. Also we are expecting the president to be in lock step with President Trump. We are not hearing of any republican defections, even a handful of moderates remaining in conference tell me theyre planning to vote against those articles. We do expect at least two democrats to defect and vote also against those articles. The question is will more democrats ultimately decide they cant support the articles, but at the moment, brianna, it is pretty clear a majority of the house does support impeaching the president , and thats going to happen in just a matter of days. Brianna . President trump is denying to todays vote, and the democrats are, quote, trivializing impeachment. Kaitlan collin is covering there live for us. When he says theyre trivializing impeachment, something we know privately the president is indifferent to. Listen to how he described this effort and also when he was asked by a reporter, does he want a trial thats long or short . Its a scam. Its something that shouldnt be allowed. Its a very big deal. Youre trivializing impeachment. I tell you what, someday there will be a democratic president and a republican house, and i suspect theyre going to remember it. Do you prefer a short protces in the senate or a more extended process . I heard lindsey talk about quicker, but i can do whatever. Ill do long or short. Lindsey graham said yesterday he doesnt believe there should be witnesses called in that senate trial. Of course, that will be what the senator and the president decide. We should note the president was speaking to reporters after we saw Rudy Giuliani arriving at the white house earlier. He seems undeterred by federal prosecutors who are probing his business. He still went to a trip to ukraine in recent days despite all that. There you see him entering his white house today. Thats the sbaentrance to the w wing where Rudy Giuliani was going in. Despite Rudy Giulianis return, brianna, his plane was still taxiing down the runway when the president called him to ask him what he got, and now he says hes going to provide it in a 20page prourt. We have Julian Epstein many. Hes a cnn legal analyst and our chief Political Correspondent da dana bash. I want to reflect on what we saw today. How would you describe what you saw, this vote in the House Committee to go ho tto the hous . Its a completely different thing when youre actually watching those members of Congress Take those votes. Even the republicans, who were very vocal, screaming at times about their outrage, democrats, too, about the outrage the president took. We saw none of that. They met the history of the moment on both sides. I was struck by the fact that martha robey is retiring. She had her young son in her lap. That it it will. The next step, then, is going to be a full house vote. Manu is reporting they seem to have the votes, there seems to be a majority to push this through the senate t and Mitch Mcconnell had this to say on fox news last night. Everything i do, ill be working with white house counsel. Illen doing this until the senate. Is this how its supposed to work, the majority is working with the white house . Nothing is how its supposed to work in the trump administration. Frankly, what you saw there is the president has broken the modern republican party. Its almost like the pottery barn rule, you broke it, you bought it. His grip is so strong that theyre all acting in a manner where the fear of the angry tweet is driving their behavior, even on this incredibly conscientious of being in the position of allowing in the history of attorneys is well allow house and senate trials. Im curious, julian, when it comes to the clinton impeachment, in the senate you didnt have democrats fully in lock step with president clinton. There was a question is one senator in many ways. It wasnt so clear going in. In 1998, we got along with our republican counterparts. I got along with the republican key at that time. We liked each other, respected each other. The Public Opinion in 1998 was clearly on the side of clinton, clearly on one side. Here its very, very split. One side now seems to be just totally ignoring and boycotting the rules. That was very, very different from what happened in 1998. So its dramatically different. This almost has an alyce in wonderland given the context of a president impeachment. It sort of sounds like politics as usual. Impeachment becomes politics by other means. Americans are very involved in it. It sort of feels like the two sides arent listening to each other, theyre just sort of contentious with each other. One side doesnt have to play by the rules anymore, the democrats are doing what theyre doing to defend the constitution, theres something very disturbing about this one. One side doesnt even feel like they have to participate and play by the rules. Speaking of politics as usual, look at some recent history, right, the clinton impeachment that he would have faced impeachment had he not resigned. Youre seeing three of the four president s either being impeached or facing impeachment, its happens. Axios has an ad this morning saying its more common. There were people who believe joe beb. The last few werent called because those articles of impeachment werent serious. So the simple fact that more people are being impeached over time doesnt change the fact th that obama or bush or clinton didnt change in recent history. My brief theory is if you go back, nixon, the notion of televised hearings was a relatively new thichblgt. And mathen fast forward to clinton. People were pretty engaged in her news. Fast forward to trump where people can rangel up the base. To just tease it out a little bit, when john dean testified in the summer of 1974, 80 Million People tuned in. When we were going through the clinton impeachment in 1998, we had about 30 Million People tuned in. We are directed by the twitter movement and the culture wars. A question i have, is there a Public Square thats left . Is there a place where the country comes together, has a conversation about an important issue, other than an election every four years, do they make a decision . It certainly happened in 1994, certainly sided with trump now. If youre the 47 who likes trump, youre for impeachment. If youre not, youre not for trump. Lets keep clinton out of this, but again, what were talking about here is the inviting of foreign interference in american lives. Youre making a constitutional argument which i agree with and i think the democrats are doing the right thing. Dana and i are doing a different thing that figurine theical te a decision in clinton that it was wrong. 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There are cracking down on the number of white house personnel listening to the phone calls. It began early in this administration to limit a number of people with inside information about those conversations. After a career stopper, they raised questions about the president s call with the ukranian leader. Their roles included taking notes and providing evidence to the transcript of the conversations meant to clarify what was said. Now only a handful of political officials listen in, these sources tell us. One source jokingly called this the vindman rule, referring there to alex vindman. The president actually spoke about alex vindman in the oval, seeming to mock him, saying he was another beauty. He also said he was able to confirm that transcript. Now, we do know he said it was substantially correct. Brianna . Alexander vindman is a patriot, right . Hes in the military, he has a purple heart. Just want to be clear as the president critiques him. So, alex, i wonder what the effect of this is, because when you look at the people who testified, some of whom had access to this call or listened to this call, you wonder what the effect is. Does that mean that if Something Like that happened again that there would be no one there to attest to wrongdoing . Essentially this is an effort to reflect the fear and paranoia in the white house. Fear that there are leaks, paranoia about the socalled deep state. And what pam hit on right there about the vindman rule, that basically sums it up. They are stripping out the careerist, the policymakers. As one told me, the effect is a small circle of loyalists in policy decisions. What youve now got are these phone calls where people who, on a daytoday basis, are talking to, dealing with, forming policy around this country or these regions. They are no longer participating, and oftentimes they are no longer seeing these transcripts. So essentially youre setting up a situation where you can have the president and his inner circle who are pushing a position, pushing a policy, and then the daytoday professionals, those midlevel careerists, they might be working on the more normal level of policy. Right. Instead youve got two hands that arent talking to each other, so that sets up things for a very incoherent foreign policy, and thats exactly what we saw when it came to ukraine. It sounds like a disaster. This is great reporting. Thank you both very much. The articles of impeachment accident sent to the house floor who will be voting in the canex. Im going to speak to one who will be voting. A slew of violent criminals, including convicted murderers and reportedly a child rapist being pardoned. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin thats my new plan. Nothing is everything. Keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months. 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He also told me of another case in Kenton County of a person impersonating a Police Officer who made traffic stops on women. He said the only way he would be stopped is to propose guns again. Were trying to see if we can reach him or his former staff. Heres what we know. He told the Washington Post this. He said, im a big believer in Second Chances. I think this was a nation that was founded on the concept of redemption and Second Chances and new pages in life. So, brianna, we are trying to figure out more details about the specific cases, but right now a lot of victims families are in shock. Its understandable they were in shock, right . Because they didnt see this coming. They werent actually told these criminals were going to be pardoned . At least, thats what were hearing from another prosecutor in kentucky who told the Washington Post that he saw these reports in the media and rushed to tell some of these families who may not have known yet. So this is really difficult. We heard from the mom of a girl who was raiped and she said, ths is like a slap in the face, like were living this trauma all over again. I want to mention the prosecutor i spoke with in Kenton County said prosecutors across kentucky have been trying to get a complete list of the people pardoned and whose sentences were commuted since tuesday, and they havent been able to get that. So they had to file an open records request to get the whole list to see who all has been pardoned. And we know now that some state lawmakers have told the louisville currier journal that they want to see an investigation from an independent prosecutor into at least one of these cases, brianna. Natasha, thank you for following this story. We appreciate it. It is an historic day here in washington as the House Judiciary Committee moves articles of impeachment to the house floor for an expected vote next week. 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