Fallout after historic House vote to impeach President Trump l ABC News

Take a live look at the White House. President Trump is waking up there this morning as the third American

president

in history to be

impeach

ed. Faced with these headlines in the major

news

papers, you can see it right there on these front pages across the country, those are headlines. The

president

never expected to see, but at a rally overnight, Trump criticized the entire effort as a mark of political suicide for Democrats, the next epicenter of the trial, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now raises questions about the timing and fairness of that trial, as Gresham correspondent Mary Bruce was there on Capitol Hill for this

historic

moment tracing all the consequences now good morning Mary, good morning George months of intense debate reached a pinnacle partisan here last night, but this fight is far from over, all eyes are now on the Senate and the power plays there. that will determine the fate of the president just a few months before the elections it is history overnight in the article of the House of Representatives it is adopted with that blow of the gavel the legacy of President Trump now marked forever with the

impeach

ment only the third president in American history charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress

vote

s along party lines, not a single Republican broke ranks.

Democrats are largely united: only a few opposed impeachment while the House was voting, the president rallied his troops in Battle Creek, Michigan, it doesn't really seem like they're impeaching us, that's how it was. There's nothing wrong and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we've never had before. He insists that Democrats are the ones who will pay the political price through their depraved actions. Today, Nancy Pelosi's crazy House Democrats have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame and attacked Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, who

vote

d to impeach him, going after her husband, Congressman John Dingell, who died at Earlier this year, she may be looking up, but let's assume she's looking down, the congresswoman responding that her hurtful words only made my healing that much more difficult on Capitol Hill.

Republicans agree with the president's inflexibility that he did nothing in Pchable this vote on this day is about one thing and one thing only they hate this president they hate those of us who voted for him they believe we were stupid they believe that We made a mistake They want to take away my vote and throw it in the trash, but Democrats say Trump's actions left them no choice that invited foreign interference in the United States. election by pressuring Ukraine to investigate one of his main political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, he corrupted our elections and compromised our national security so he could maintain power, not power to the people, power to himself.

Democrats say they had to act now because the president presents a clear and present danger President Adam Schiff with a warning across the aisle if he ignores it if he says the president can refuse to comply can refuse a legal process can coerce a ally can cheat in an election because he is the president of our party, you do not comply well with our Constitution, you do not comply well with your oath of office. I'll tell you this. I will fulfill mine. I will vote to impeach Donald Trump. This fight now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate and we hope that later today leaders McConnell and Schumer will do so. sit down and meet to try to come up with a plan for this trial early next year, but the Republican leader has made it very clear that he plans to be in full coordination with the White House and does not expect the president to be removed from office one at a time. time.

One thing that could delay the trial is this idea that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now considering maintaining the hold and sending House impeachment managers to the Senate as leverage in negotiations, as the Senate on the witnesses, George, this game was a bit surprising last night, the speaker after the vote would not commit to sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate for consideration, citing concerns about an unfair trial, now some Democrats have been suggesting that they do this to gain some leverage in a fight over their mandates, including, of course, Democrats' demands that I call certain witnesses Mary Bruce thank you very much hello everyone George Stephanopoulos thank you for visiting the ABC YouTube channel News.

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