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WATCH: Democrats, Republicans Make Case For and Against Trump Impeachment

Ken Bredemeier

   The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday started debating the
   unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump, with the
   majority Democrats accusing him of inciting insurrectionby encouraging
   what became a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
   WATCH LIVE: House floor proceedings on Trump Impeachment

   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump a threat to "liberty,
   self-government and the rule of law."
   But a staunch Trump supporter, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, said
   impeachment "doesn't unite the country. This is about politics."
   Democrats, he said, "want to cancel the president."
   The thin Democratic majority in the House has enough votes on its own
   to impeach Trump a week before his four-year term ends at noon January
   20 and Democrat Joe Biden is inaugurated as the country's new leader.
   Asmall number of Republicans, however, alsois expected to join in a
   vote that will brand Trump, a Republican, with a singular distinction
   in U.S. history--the first of the country's 45 presidents to be
   impeached twice.
   If he is impeached, Trump would be tried by the Senate, likely after
   his term ends, and a two-thirds vote in the politically divided chamber
   would be needed to convict him. The outcome there is uncertain,but if
   it convicts him, the Senate in a second vote requiring only a simple
   majority could ban him from ever again holding federal office.

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