A cold job by his democratic rivals will begin on tuesday hello this is aljazeera Adrian Finnegan here with our coverage in doha lets bring in our correspondent joe castro whos on capitol hill right now heidi just explain to us once again what it is were seeing right now. Well sure youre seeing the Senate Members are preparing to receive the articles of impeachment which in minutes time we were told they are to be serum only only walked across the building the u. S. Capitol building from the u. S. House of representatives side which is where all of the impeachment proceedings thus far have unfolded those hearings those votes and those articles would have been printed out they allege that trump abused his the power of this office and. Who did not cooperate with. Investigators in obstruction of congress with the impeachment investigation and those articles will be delivered by hand accompanied by 7 appointed impeachment managers these are the democratic members of the house who have been
Where the house of representatives has begun a session to debate and then vote on whether to send him to a senate trial. Well lets have a little bit of business then hearing the m. P. H. Meant ossicles being read out lets take an injured the interests of the nation President Trump and gauged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means one President Trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States government corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into a a political opponent former Vice President joseph r. Biden jr and b. A discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 United States president ial election 2 with the same corrupt motives President Trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States government condition to official acts on the public announcements that he had requested a the release o
so the congress of the senate taken a recess there briefly after we heard there from mitch mcconnell the republican who s the senate majority leader outlining why he believes president should be acquitted he said that this was an incoherent case and he said that had to be a part of an impeachment it will end today we heard previously from democrat chuck schumer the senate minority leader who said that the president was clearly guilty on abuse of power and obstruction of congress and this is the day when the senators will be outlining which way they re going to vote in what is expected to be an acquittal let s bring in. live for us on capitol hill as who we ve heard from all these senators what their views are and now it s that we will waiting for that moment are they going to recess take us through what s going to happen next. that s right so now very soon we re expecting the chief justice john roberts to reconvene the court of impeachment i haven t the same room where we see