It started with a whistle blowers, complain about president trumps contact with a foreign leader at a perfect phone call with the President of Ukraine, like I've made perfect today, I'm asking our chairman to proceed, with Eichel impeachment. I now call on the house reservation: seven. Fifty five impeaching Donald John Trump Present, the United States. I grimes misdemeanours, juniors woman, said Nicholas my wonder: how does a neck hey? It's Nick vandals congressional report for the New York Times. I just got back from Capitol Hill there's a bit of news over there this morning, after some drama and away mister. Neither I, Mr Mather votes. I miss laughter. I the forty members of how she d Sure Committee have voted along party lines to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Mr chairman, there are twelve.

Three eyes and seventeen is basically what they ve done now is finalize what the president's going to be impeach for abuse of power and obstructing commerce, and they ve now voted out of committee resolution is amended, is ordered, reported favourably to the house, so that sets up an impeachment vote of the full house next week without objection. The committee is adjourned, but the latest what I've been attended, do these last few days is what these committee members said in their final arguments in the lead up to that vote. Hurting Wednesday night, all through the day and night on Thursday and up until the vote Friday morning. Do you believe that we should allow this to go on a What the president did. Ostensibly, what was there we to say right after two months, Inquiry weeks of debate, the committee that comprises some of the most ardent members of each party, they ve all made up their minds long

but in these last moments, let's be honest, this is about our conscience, the conscience of the nation, the conscience of my friends on the other side of the iron. They called on one another, a reconsider their votes, and many of them did so by appealing to one another's conscience, less keep our own. What really happened in this case and whether or not our conscious consciences dictate that we do something about it. We can't let it go on addressed. Democrats appealed to the Republicans to consider their better angels, and I ask my leaks to let your conscience be a guide to put party aside and think about this moment in history, reach deep within yourselves to find the courage to do at the evidence requires, and the constitution demands to put your our country above your party and the Republicans, and I appreciate that Mr Sicily and I was gonna make a request of my colleagues and friends.

The other side as well to put two but country ever Party also were essentially making the exact same appeal back to Democrats. We're looking at this same set of facts with two totally different ways. The founders of this country warned against a single party impeachment. Put aside, your partisanship reconsider your vote because they feared it would bitterly and Peru Irreparably divide our nation vote where everyone knew the outcome, we're not in person in the room was gonna reconsider their vote. Mr chairman, there are twenty three eyes and seventeen knows so. Here's what I think is on the members of the committee were really speaking to one another over these last few days. They speaking to a small handful of democratic colleagues, maybe republican or two in the full house who don't yet no they're gonna vote or we save it they're other gonna vote next week. These are people like us Slack and of Michigan Jeff Andrew of New Jersey. The democratic, moderate and swing districts are trump districts. The coupled Democrats, who never came around us

during an impeachment inquiry. They now have to decide whether or not their going to impeach and that's a very, very risky proposition and to be this isn't about needing the votes in a number since, by all accounts, the Democrats have the votes. They need to pass this on the house for its about wanting every single Democrat to vote to impeach, because that's another kind of message, one to the voters who are unsure how they feel about impeachment the same people who have to decide whether to give a was slacken, our Jeff, Andrew and other term and twenty. It's a message to them that all the Democrat, even the moderates, even the ones for whom this is politically inconvenient, are united on this front, and they hope that moderate Democrats, taking a tough vote, that my costs in their jobs will signal to Americans that it was the right thing to do so that's the way it is from Washington. We expect the full house to take its vote next week, probably on Wednesday,

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