The 7-Minute Vote

Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment, sending them to the full House for a vote.

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0:00.0	The question now is on Article 1 of the resolution impeaching President Donald
0:10.0	day Trump for abusing his powers. The clerk will call the roll.
0:14.4	Mr. Nadler?
0:15.4	Aye.
0:16.4	Mr. Nadler votes aye.
0:17.4	From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment. I'm Steve Kurnaki.
0:21.9	Today is Friday, December 13th, and here's what's happening.
0:25.1	The article has agreed to. The question now is on Article 2 of the resolution,
0:29.4	impeaching President Donald J. Trump for obstructing Congress.
0:33.4	The clerk will call the roll.
0:35.1	Three hours of opening remarks on Wednesday, followed by 14 and a half hours of bitter
0:40.9	partisan debate on Thursday, led to this moment.
0:45.0	The article has agreed to.
0:47.0	The resolution is amended as ordered to report it favorably to the House.
0:50.0	Members will have two days to submit views.
0:52.0	The House Judiciary Committee passed two articles of impeachment against President
0:56.2	Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
1:00.9	The panel met for just seven minutes this morning to cast those two votes.
1:05.0	Today on Article 2, we're asking, what did it take to pass these two charges?
1:10.0	And how does today's vote set the stage for the full vote in the house next week?
1:15.0	Garrett Haake is a Washington correspondent for MSMBC and he joins us now from Capitol Hill where he has been
1:24.1	putting in some serious overtime covering the impeachment process this week
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