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CONTINUAC PRESIDENT DID AND COULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO AN OFFICIAL TRIAL IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. FOR THE VERY LATEST, LET'S GO TO GEOFF BENNETT ON CAPITOL HILL. LOOKS LIKE IT IS AS EXPECTED, VERY PARTY LINE. TWO DEFECTORS ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, ONE A SORT OF FORMER REPUBLICAN WHO WE EXPECTED AND THAT IS IT. >> YOU'RE RIGHT. THOSE TWO DEMOCRATSTRUMP-FRIEND DISTRICTS. YES, THIS TAKES THE PROCESS PUBLIC. FOR THE LAST THREE OR FOUR WEEK, YOU'VE HAD THEM DEPOSE WITNESS AFTER WITNESS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. AND THAT PROCESS IS NOW COMING TO AN END AND HOUSE LEADERSHIP MADE THE POINT THAT AS THE PRIVATE PROCESS GROWS PUBLIC, YOU NEED A ROADMAP. SO THIS RESOLUTION, WHAT IT SAYS IS THAT THE INVESTIGATIVE HAVE I LIFTS WILL STAY WITHIN THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, ADAM SCHIFF LEADS THAT COMMITTEE. SO HE WILL BE IN CHARGE. AND THEN WHEN THAT COMES TO AN END, THEIR REPORT WILL GO TO THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND THEN THEY WILL WRITE UP THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT. YOU WILL THEN SEE AT SOME POINT POTENTIALLY ANOTHER VOTE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR ON THOSE SPECIFIC ARTICLES, THAT WOULD THEN SET UP THE SENATE TO HAVE A TRIAL. SO HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY LAYING OUT A CALENDAR THAT HAS NO DATES ON IT. THERE IS NO TIME LINE FOR HOW LONG THIS WILL TAKE. PUBLICLY WE'VE HEARD NANCY PELOSI SAY THAT THE TIME LINE DENI DEPENDS ON THE TRUTH LINE. PRIVATELY, DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN SAYING SINCE AUGUST THAT THEY WANT TO WRAP THIS UP BY THE END OF THE YEAR. THEY FEEL IF IT MOVES INTO THE ELECTION YEAR, REPUBLICANS WILL SAY THIS IS ABOUT THE ELECTION, NOT THE CONSTITUTION. AND SO YOU HAVE A NUMBER RUNNING FOR THE SENATE SO ULTIMATE HAVE ALL THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES HEAR IN WASHINGTON, NOT IN IOWA, NOT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE DOING THE WORK THAT THEY WOULD RATHER BE DOING AS PART OF THEIR CAMPAIGN. >> GEOFF BENNETT ON CAPITOL HILL FOR US. AS FOLKS CAN SEE ON THE VOTE BOARD THERE, JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY HAS VOTED AND THIS IS VERY REFLECTIVE ALMOST OF THE COUNTRY ITSELF, DEMOCRATS ON ONE SIDE OF THE STORY, REPUBLICANS ON THE OTHER. LETTO HALLIE JACKSON. THE WHITE HOUSE HAS TO BE BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF, HOUSE DEMOCRATS A ALL ON THEIR SIDE. BUT THIS IS NOT ON THE SUBSTANCE, ABOUT SO STILL CONCERN DOWN THE ROAD. BUT RIGHT NOW THE PRESIDENT HAS HIS PARTY IN HIS CORNER. >> Reporter: AND SOURCES SAY THAT THEY LIKE THE BLANK SPOT WHERE IT SAYS REPUBLICAN YEA. NO DEFECTORS. WE'VE BEEN TOLD -- >> I'D ARGUE ONE. THERE IS ONE. JUSTIN AMASH CONSIDERED AND INDEPENDENT. SO THEY DID LOSE ONE. >> Reporter: HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE WOULD NO LONGER TOW THE PARTY LINE. AND I WOULD THINK -- >> ON THIS VOTE THE YEAS ARE 232, NAYS 196. THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED WITHOUT OBJECTION. THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID UPON THE TABLE. >> NANCY PELOSI CUTTING YOU OFF. MY APOLOGIES. QUICKLY TEN SECONDS AND WE'LL WRAP THIS UP. >> Reporter: THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T WANT IMPEACHMENT BUT HE HAS IT, THE MOST HE CAN HOPE FOR NOW IS KEEP THE REPUBLICANS IN LINE BEHIND HIM EVEN IF IT MOVES TO SOMETHING. >> I THINK AT THIS POINT HE MAY HOPE THAT MAYBE THE ARTICLES DON'T EVER GET WRITTEN. WE SHALL SEE. SO A DRAMATIC NEW CHAPTER OFFICIALLY BEGINS NOW IN WASHINGTON, A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE TWO CO-EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT AND A PROCESS LAID OUT BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. WE WILL OF COURSE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS STORY AND MY COLLEAGUE LESTER HOLT WILL HAVE COMPLETE DETAILS TONIGHT ON "NIGHTLY NEWS" FROM LOS ANGELES WITH THE LATEST ON THOSE DEADLY

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Length: 233min 33sec (14013 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 31 2019