The Latest: The Rules

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

House members are preparing for a vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, while their counterparts gear up for the next phase: a trial in the Senate. As the impeachment process moves from a Democratic-controlled chamber to one dominated by Republicans, the rules of engagement are changing — and party leaders are battling over who gets to decide them. “The Latest” is a series on the impeachment inquiry, from the team behind “The Daily.” You can find more information about it here.

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0:26.0	It started with a whistleblowers complain about President Trump's contact with a foreign
0:37.0	leader.
0:38.0	Had a perfect phone call with the president of Ukraine.
0:41.1	Like, I mean perfect.
0:43.0	Today I'm asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.
0:48.9	This week Democrats are expected to approve two articles of impeachment on a straight
0:53.1	party line vote.
0:54.8	Starting up a Senate trial early next year.
0:59.0	It's Julie Davis in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times.
1:01.8	The news from here is all about the rules.
1:06.0	The rules committee will come to order.
1:07.8	House Democrats are spending Tuesday figuring out the rules for the impeachment vote Wednesday.
1:12.0	They are a cameras president and that means members of Congress are taking the chance
1:15.4	to speech a fire a little bit.
1:16.8	You know, when I think back to the founders of this nation, they were particularly concerned
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