Big Tapper and I'm here with Wolf Blitzer and our panel and we're talking about this moment in history.

We are expecting any moment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring up the articles of impeachment.

We assume as of now that there will be a vote to acquit President Trump.

As of right now, it looks as though the votes are basically 52 Republican senators will all vote to acquit

President Trump and 47 Democratic senators and one Republican senator,

Mitt Romney, will vote to remove President Trump from office.

That's on the first article of impeachment.

Mitt Romney will be the first US senator in the history of the United States

to vote to remove from office a president from his same party.

And let's bring in our panel. Jeff Tuben, before we heard from Mitch McConnell,

we were wondering how the Democrats, there were two Democrats that

had not announced how they were going to vote.

Kirsten Cinema from Red, Arizona and Joe Manchin from Red, West Virginia, how they were going

to vote, and they are both voting to

convict and remove President Trump are you surprised? Well yeah I am a little surprised

actually and I'm certainly surprised by the way Mitt Romney expressed himself.

I think if you compare the three impeachment processes of our lifetime,

in the 70s with Nixon, the Clinton in the late 90s and now you see the decline the

rise of partisanship the in each of the of the impeachments you have fewer defections from one party to the other I mean it was in the house in the house and you saw it was Republicans who essentially forced Nixon's

resignation the famous meeting where Barry Goldwater Hugh Scott and John

Rose went to the went to the president.

Here we are talking about bipartisanship

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