House Votes To Impeach, All Eyes On McConnell Amid Concerns About More Violence

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

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House Democrats — joined by 10 Republicans — voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday. Now the process moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he hasn't made a final decision — and that he'll listen to the legal arguments presented in the Senate. GOP strategist Scott Jennings, who is familiar with McConnell's thinking, spoke to NPR about why that might be.

No matter what McConnell does, Trump will not be president by this time next week. But between now and then, there are growing concerns about more violence in Washington, D.C., and in cities around the country, as NPR's Greg Allen has reported.

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0:00.0	Impeachment or not, Donald Trump will no longer be president this time next week.
0:06.0	The clerk will report the resolution. House resolution 24 resolved that Donald John Trump,
0:12.0	president of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
0:16.0	On Wednesday, the article of impeachment was read on the House floor,
0:20.0	opening two hours of debate. And then came the vote.
0:25.0	Have all members voted? Does any member wish to change a vote?
0:32.0	The final vote to impeach the president was bipartisan.
0:36.0	Ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to make Donald Trump the only president ever impeached twice.
0:42.0	On this vote, the eyes are 232. The nays are 197.
0:49.0	The resolution is adopted without objection. The motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.
0:56.0	Next, the process moves to the Republican-controlled Senate, which is required to hold a trial.
1:01.0	On Wednesday afternoon, reports emerge that majority leader Mitch McConnell will not support calls by Democrats to reconvene the Senate early for that trial.
1:10.0	That means they'll be back as scheduled on January 19th.
1:13.0	And the impeachment process will unfold during Joe Biden's first weeks in office.
1:19.0	I think there's a lot of misconceptions about what happened within the Capitol.
1:22.0	And it's going to come into laser focus, I think, over the next weeks and days.
1:26.0	And I think people are going to be shocked with some of the egregious contact that happened within the Capitol.
1:31.0	Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Michael Sherwin, told reporters Tuesday
1:37.0	that the American public does not yet have a complete picture of what happened on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol.
1:44.0	He said, sure, there's the guy with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk, the guy on the House floor carrying zip ties,
1:51.0	and those stories have gotten a lot of play on social media.
1:54.0	What the public isn't familiar with is that the FBI working with the U.S. Attorney's offices across the country
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