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Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on a resolution proposing next steps in the impeachment process - the first time the House will take a vote on the inquiry so far. The resolution formalizes the continuing inquiry, outlines the role of the White House, and opens the next phase to the public. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists it is not designed to authorize the inquiry, since the Constitution doesn't require a formal vote. Kelly O’Donnell, White House Correspondent for NBC News, reviews the resolution text and the political calculations of Democrats and Republicans moving forward with the inquiry. Questions about the impeachment inquiry? Email us at [email protected]. For a transcript, please visit https://www.nbcnews.com/articletwo. Further Reading: House to vote on resolution laying out next steps in impeachment inquiryRead the full text of the House resolution on the impeachment process

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0:00.0	From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.
0:09.4	I'm Steve Kurnaki.
0:10.4	Today is Wednesday, October 30thth and here's what's happening.
0:14.0	The Rules Committee will come to order.
0:17.0	This is a sad day when our founders drafted the Constitution more than
0:21.0	230 years ago.
0:23.1	They included a process that could lead to removing a president from office
0:26.9	if he or she abused their power.
0:28.9	The House is gearing up for its first vote
0:31.8	on the impeachment inquiry.
0:33.3	The Rules Committee met this afternoon
0:35.5	to debate and to mark up the eight-page resolution
0:38.5	that lays out next steps in the process.
0:41.3	As we entered the public facing phase of the inquiry, I introduced a resolution yesterday
0:46.7	to ensure a clear path forward.
0:49.0	The full house will vote on the resolution tomorrow, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists this is not a vote to authorize the inquiry.
0:56.4	We have you talk about the impeachment resolution?
1:00.8	It's not an impeachment resolution.
1:03.0	Pelosi says the impeachment proceeding is already valid, but the resolution does address
1:08.0	some of the Republican criticism of the inquiry.
1:11.8	This process, determining whether he should be impeached will be open to the public view
1:16.0	just as it should be.
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