important to to accept what's happened here miss greenberg thank you so much for your analysis karen greenberg live in new york thank you. well i mean as a product and this is the news out live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes on this vote the yeas are 230 the nays are 197 present is one article one is adopted. donald trump is impeached he'll face a trial of the senate after the house of representatives indicted him on 2 charges . well president trump divides the impeachment process as an assault on america and his republican party. for only the 3rd time in u.s. history a president has been impeached following a heated debate the democratic controlled house of representatives voted to formally charge donald trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congress the yes our 230 the nays are 197 present is one article one is adopted. well democrats and republicans made their case for more than 8 hours about whether trump violate the constitution it paves the way for a trial in the senate where a republican majority is expected to block trump's removal from office with today's illegal un

your expertise that is alan baron we're going to talk to another guest now we're bringing in karen greenberg she's the director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law and she's joining us live from new york very good to have you with us on algis there on this historic day thank you very much for staying with us and we're looking at the vote on the 2nd article of impeachment that is obstruction of congress and interestingly we've had a few. just one more i think democrats voting against this article i think we had 2 democrats voting against the 1st awful of abuse of power but we've had 3 voting against peaching the president for obstruction of congress. yeah i still think that this is a very strong win for nancy pelosi those numbers are very low again we still have to wait for the 2nd vote to be completed as far as i can tell but the president has already been impeached on one count and he will be most likely impeached on this 2nd count and there are a number of takeaways from today and to have the run up to this vote happened the 1st is that we have a real div

shortly but 1st we're joined by karen greenberg who's the director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law and she's joining us live from new york ms greenberg very good to have you with us on the on al-jazeera so 6 hours and it's less of a debate as and than the house members of the house of representatives reading their statements and from what we've heard so far i mean it's completely along partisan lines as were expected. yeah it's very much a partisan lines and it's very much the arguments that we expected to hear and that we've heard before basically the republicans are saying this is a sham process that it's about disliking the president that it's about reversing the election and minimizing any talk about ukraine and when they do talk about ukraine and selenski and the phone call they basically rely on the he didn't actually do it therefore there's nothing here to fort for us to impeach him on in terms of abuse of power the democrats are sticking to the line of abuse of power of talking at sometimes in depth about what happened in ukraine and inte