obstruction of congress one republican broke ranks but it wasn't enough to see trump removed from office heidi jocasta reports from washington d.c. . it is therefore the outcome was as expected donald john trump b. and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles donald trump only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached now also the 3rd u.s. president to be a quick.

would prohibit the government from denying equal rights to a person on the basis of their gender heidi jocasta reports. it's been 100 years since american women got the vote almost 50 since they gained access to abortions but as for getting equal rights protection under the u.s. constitution the clock is still ticking why has it taken this long. you know it's a great question i find it very interesting heidi schreck is a pulitzer nominated playwright i thought i had just been left out of this document from the beginning her work what the constitution means to me tells the history of domestic violence in her family for their benefit the rights and i met when i was 1st was i guess what kinds of music oh. i believe that the law was related to domestic related to sexual assault and. would have been. i believe that. the men in my family would not have needed to suffer the way they did the proposed equal rights amendment was drafted in 1923 it took 50 years for its language to clear congress but it wasn't ratified by 2 thirds of us states which is required by the constitution until the year 2020 in

for president trump so he is for me acquitted about 1st charge of abuse of power let's bring in heidi jocasta. struve you know that's right and that was the definitive vote from senator jerry moran of kansas now this is obviously not a surprise given that you need that 2 thirds bar to vote guilty on any article of impeachment and there's also it's also not surprising because the context of all of this morning is that this was so much worse than just a question of whether or not president trump is guilty of these charges in fact we just heard mitt romney that soul republican who voted guilty on the use of power the calculation though for senator romney's republican colleagues wasn't just that if democrats proved their case back there's been a handful of moderate republican senators who say they believe the democrats case and they thought what trump did was wrong and inappropriate the bigger question is though it was whether that was worthy of removing him from office was unlike any other trial in a criminal justice system in the united states an impeachment trial is political and there is only