Trump Impeachment

Democratic House managers addressed the media on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s defense team wrapped up their arguments in the Senate impeachment trial.

President Donald Trump’s legal defense team began opening arguments at the Senate impeachment trial on Saturday. Here are some of the top moments you may have missed.

Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, D – N.Y., addressed the Senate during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Friday. Hear his speech on America’s history of overcoming adversity in times of crisis.

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone addressed the Senate on Tuesday during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Cipollone said he believes senators will find that president “has done absolutely nothing wrong.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited San Francisco Sunday before heading back to the nation’s capital with what she said is the backing of a vast majority of Americans who are demanding a full and fair impeachment trial in the senate.

The Senate trial into whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office over his attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating his main political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, has begun.

Former independent counsel Ken Starr and defense attorney Alan Dershowitz are slated to join President Donald Trump’s defense team when the Senate’s impeachment trial begins next week, according to NBC News. Also expected to join the team are former special counsel Robert Ray and Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general.

The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Dec. 19, 2019.

President Donald Trump is on the cusp of being impeached by the House, with a historic debate set Wednesday on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress ahead of votes that will leave a defining mark on his tenure at the White House.

The historic debate leading up to the vote continues as of Wednesday afternoon. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the details on what’s happened so far.

Vicki Miller is helping to organize one of more than 600 protests planned on the eve of the House’s vote on impeaching President Donald Trump because, for the retired lawyer from Philadelphia, the evidence is clear. “You can’t solicit the help of a foreign government in an election,” she said. For only the third time on Wednesday, the House is...

 Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically. Within weeks, she was recalled from her post. In an interview with The New York Times, Giuliani portrayed himself as directly involved in the effort to oust Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, and he provided...

This coming week’s virtually certain House impeachment of President Donald Trump will underscore how Democrats and Republicans have morphed into fiercely divided camps since lawmakers impeached President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one years ago this Thursday, a Republican-led House approved two impeachment articles against Democrat Clinton. While that battle was bitterly partisan, it was blurrier than the near party-line votes expected this week...

President Donald Trump addressed the media after the House Judiciary Committee sent two articles of impeachment to the full House of Representatives for consideration next week.

Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., announces the articles of impeachment debated in the House Judiciary Committee will now move to the full House of Representatives

The House Judiciary Committee has debated into the evening, moving deliberately toward a historic vote to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Though split sharply along party lines, the panel is expected to send the charges to the full House for it to take pre-Christmas action next week.

As members of the House Judiciary Committee debated the two proposed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Thursday morning, one phrase kept popping up: “I move to strike the last word.”
Why were they saying that?
Turns out, they were using a parliamentary procedure to keep talking longer than a five-minute rule would allow.

Impeachment debate surrounding the next amendment to be introduced quickly divulged into a tit-for-tat involving allegations of cocaine usage and driving under the influence charges....

It began with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introducing an amendment to strike former Vice President Joe Biden from the articles of impeachment as the subject of an investigation Trump wanted Ukraine to launch and replace him...

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., responds to Rep. Steve Chabot’s, R-Ohio, comments that President Donald Trump should not be impeached because there is no evidence of a crime having been committed. Swalwell argues crimes were committed against the Constitution.