House approves sending impeachment articles to the Senate, appoints 7 managers to serve as Senate prosecutors; Newly released letters, texts, notes show Giuliani's push to meet with Ukraine pres; Candidates make final cases to IA voters during CNN debate

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

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Rep. Amash reacts to Pelosi's picks for impeachment managers; Yovanovitch wants investigation into "disturbing" surveillance; New letters: Giuliani had Trump's "knowledge and consent" to request meeting with Ukraine president; Klobuchar: there's a double standard for women in politics, but I can win presidency; Warren-Sanders feud takes center stage at CNN debate; Biden & Sanders spar over Iraq war vote during CNN debate; Candidates make final cases to Iowa voters during CNN debate; WH undecided on including Trump defenders in trial; Trump signs first phase of trade deal with China on the same day house delivers impeachment articles; Dow closes about 29k for first time as Trump signs phase one of trade deal with China; Any moment: Pelosi to sign article of impeachment;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we are back with the breaking news this afternoon. The House of Representatives voted on a pretty much party line vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
0:10.0	But it is unclear how exactly that will go down tonight when the impeachment managers, the Democrats,
0:15.2	seven of them, walk over to the Senate side later this hour.
0:18.3	Senate Republicans are telling us that they're not going to officially accept the articles of impeachment.
0:23.1	They will instead tell the managers, come back tomorrow, then we will formally receive them.
0:28.1	House Democrats are insisting they expect Republicans to accept the articles tonight. Let's chew over all this, I mean this just really
0:35.2	is so emblematic of where we are in terms of the Democrats and the Republicans and they
0:40.9	can't even agree to accept the articles of impeachment.
0:43.8	It's silly and it I think defies the gravity of the moment.
0:49.7	I mean it really is, you know you said earlier in your run up that it really is a historic day the third impeachment trial of a
0:55.8	president of the United States and this is the type of thing that I think the
0:59.8	public should expect that they could work out in a phone call beforehand.
1:04.3	And that's right, it's the third.
1:06.2	The first was Andrew Johnson in 1868.
1:09.2	Then we had to go all the way to 1999 for Bill Clinton.
1:12.1	Nixon was not actually impeached.
1:14.4	He resigned before that could happen.
1:15.5	Donald Trump today.
1:16.6	It's very historical.
1:17.8	It really does seem to bother the president.
1:19.6	And I can certainly understand why.
1:21.2	When Nancy Pelosi says, and I think she's certainly trying to get
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