House Judiciary committee approves impeachment articles; full house floor vote next week; House Judiciary committee vote to impeach split on party lines; Dems slam McConnell for coordinating with WH on senate trial

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

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House Judiciary committee approves impeachment articles; full house floor vote next week; House Judiciary committee vote to impeach split on party lines; Dems slam McConnell for coordinating with WH on senate trial; Trump: "I could do a long or short senate impeachment trial"; Trump reacts to vote: "an embarrassment to this country"; WSJ: Trump called Giuliani as he returned from Ukraine to ask "what did you get?"; Giuliani visits WH after returning from Ukraine; Sources: WH further limits how many officials can listen to Trump calls with foreign leaders; Full house nearing vote on impeachment President Trump; GOP Rep. challenges Castro for investigating trump as brother runs for 2020 dem nomination; McConnell & WH lawyers coordinate on senate impeachment trial ; Supreme Court to hear trump pleases to block house subpoena for financial records; Supreme Court will make final decision on Trump financial records ; Judiciary cmte approves articles of impeachment for Trump nearly 21 years to the day after Clinton; Democrats battle over how to unify country post Trump; Biden, Warren, Buttigieg spar over best way to beat trumpTo 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	Only three other people in history have a stain on their legacy like this.
0:06.4	The lead starts right now.
0:08.3	Breaking today, the House Judiciary Committee passes both articles of impeachment against President Trump as the
0:14.4	full House gets ready to vote and the Senate leader works with the White House on
0:18.8	the coming trial. Unite or fight Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, tangling over the best way to beat Trump and move on.
0:27.0	Plus, a murdering mom and a child rapist walking free, thanks to pardons by the former Kentucky governor as he walked out the door.
0:37.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Brianna Keeler and for Jake Tapper and we begin today with the politics lead.
0:44.8	President Trump now facing a full House vote to impeach him next week after the House Judiciary
0:49.4	Committee approved two articles of impeachment against the 45th president of the United States this morning.
0:55.9	All 23 Democrats on the committee voted to impeach.
0:59.1	All 17 Republicans voted against in a strictly party line decision.
1:04.1	And the White House blasted this move, calling it a,
1:06.3	quote, desperate charade, and said the President looks forward to receiving due process
1:11.0	in the Senate.
1:12.0	As CNN's Alex Marquardt reports, the president said
1:14.4	today he wouldn't mind a long trial where the whistleblower could be
1:17.9	called to testify.
1:20.9	History in the making.
1:23.0	Judiciary Committee will come to order.
1:25.0	For only the fourth time in US history, a vote by a House panel to approve articles of impeachment
1:30.4	against a sitting president.
1:32.0	The question now is on Article 1 of the resolution impeaching President Donald J. Trump for abusing his powers.
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