VOA常速英语:民主党开始起草弹劾特朗普的条款

Good morning. House Speaker Pelosi made the historic announcement at the Capitol.
With allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America,
today I am asking our Chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.
The House Committee on the Judiciary will come to order.
The move comes after weeks of House hearings on allegations that the president abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to announce an investigation into political rival Joe Biden.
The leading Democratic presidential contender:
Our democracy is what is at stake.
The president leaves us no choice but to act,
because he is trying to corrupt once again, the election for his own benefit.
Republicans remain loyal defenders of the president including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
This is the day the nation is weaker
because they sheerly cannot put their animosity or their fear of losing an election in the future in front of them—
all the other things that the American people want.
Trump has returned from the NATO summit
where he kept up his attacks on the impeachment effort.
The impeachment hoax is going nowhere.
The Republican Party has never been so unified as it is right now.
I’ve never seen such a scene like it.
Public support for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office has grown since the probe began in September and remains at about 50 percent.
Overall the country remains split on whether to remove the president from office with passionate views on both sides.
He’s guilty, he should be out.
This is … and he should have been impeached a long time ago for everything else he did.
I am against the impeachment, I think it’s ridiculous,
I think they’ve been going after Trump, ever since before…he can not impeached.
Can you remark?

Analysts note that the recent weeks of public hearings have done little to shift public opinion,
including Vanderbilt University expert Thomas Schwartz.
What I have observed is that there’s no real detectable change in the public opinion polls as to the president’s favorability or his job approval,
and so it doesn’t seem to have as as the cliche goes moved the needle at all on his overall standing.
I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
In 1974 then President Richard Nixon resigned from office after many Republicans deserted him over the Watergate scandal,
but given the deep-seated political polarization in the U.S. today, building a bipartisan consensus is difficult, says Susan Low Block.
Well, it’s definitely a very polarized age and the other thing that’s different from Nixon is we have polarized networks,
so we have not everyone believes the same facts.
The public is divided as to facts and that’s a very serious problem.
Democrats are moving to hold an impeachment vote in the house by the end of the year.
That would lead to a trial in the Republican held Senate
where a two-thirds majority vote is required for removal from office.
Prospect analysts find unlikely at the moment.