Of todays debate on impeachment. It begins with the reading of the articles. In the name of itself and of the people of the United States of america against donald john trump, president of the United States of america in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and iss demeaners. Article 1, abuse of power. The house of representatives should have the soul power of. Mpeachment in his conduct of the office of president of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of president of the United States and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial elec
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
N is recognized for one minute. Leages, this ar is a moment you will reard about in your history books. Today, i will vote to impeach the president of the United States, and i want you to know why. He broke our laws. He threatened our security. He abused the highest, most Sacred Office in our land. I want you to know that it does not feel good. I cant stop thinking about the cost to our country. Not just the impeachable offenses but the Collateral Damage of a president who uses power like a weapon against his own people. It erodes our decency, degrades our dignity. I dont yet know how they will tell the story of this era, but i want to tell you the story of this day. Let the record show that today justice won, that we did our job, that we kept our word, that we stood our sacred ground. Let the record show that we did not let you down. I love you. Listen to mom. Ill be home soon. The speaker pro tempore the day. My colleagues, this morning and every morning when we come together, member
London and she can walk us through what transpired here in the last several hours. Its just been a remarkable turn of event. As you say President Trump cancelling a planned press conference. Hes going to hold a few more meetings and then head home early. He wanted this nato trip to be a chance for him to show leadership on the world stage to try to turn the page at least temporarily from the impeachment hearings back at home and yet he has been beset by new controversies. Let me read you the tweet and then give you the broader context. The president tweeted when todays meetings are over, i will be heading back to washington. I wont be doing a press conference at the close of nato because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all. Now this comes after a stunning piece of video emerged overnight showing some of the president s closest allies. The Prime Minister of canada, justin trudeax, the Prime Minister of the u. K. , Boris Johnson appearing to mock President Trump al
Jonathan turley, George Washington university, who usually sits with us at the table who is a cbs news analyst but testifying in congress today. This hearing follows a Party Line Vote yesterday where the House Intelligence Committee approved its final report on impeachment, and that report is really a sweeping indictment of the president. Concluding the president s efforts to investigate ukraine for political rivals sought to undermine the integrity of the u. S. President ial election process and endangered u. S. National security. Bottom line, abuse of power is what theyre saying. Republicans on the Committee Say the president did nothing impeachable. This could be fiery because of the republicans and democrats who sit on the Judiciary Committee, so somewhat of a circus this morning and a little bit of a constitutional cram session. If you love the law, if you Love Learning about impeachment, this is the place to be because well be talking about it. We have a team of correspondents, n