democratic republic. >> the house judiciary committee, as we mentioned, just finished what was for them a late night of formal debate on the articles of impeachment against president trump. the committee is expected to vote on those two articles sometime tomorrow, thoroughly expected to be up or down party line. our own correspondent garrett haake has been working late tonight and joins us from the capitol. so, garrett, sum up just what it was we witnessed tonight. were these set speeches? did they react to each other at all? >> reporter: only barely, brian. you called it formal debate. i think that's actually a pretty good word for it. you had democrats trying to elevate the conversation here a little bit, make this about the constitution, a historical moment, something they didn't want to do but felt they had to. there were a lot of buy graph