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House judiciary committee releases impeachment report
Good morning, dear Friends!

This will likely be a historic week in Washington, as the House is expected to vote to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Trump would become only the third president in US history to be impeached, along with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. (Richard Nixon resigned before his pending impeachment.)

House leaders appear to be on schedule to hold their Wednesday vote, with the judiciary committee releasing its report this morning on the two articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

In the 658-page report, Democrats on the judiciary committee accuse Trump of committing constitutional and criminal bribery by trying to press Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and the 2016 election as the country’s military aid was held up.

“Applying the constitutional definition of ‘bribery’ here, there can be little doubt that it is satisfied,” the report reads. “President Trump solicited President Zelensky for a ‘favor’ of great personal value to him;

he did so corruptly; and he did so in a scheme to influence his own official actions respecting the release of military and security assistance and the offer of a White House meeting. Although President Trump’s actions need not

rise to the level of a criminal violation to justify impeachment, his conduct here was criminal.”

Republicans on the judiciary committee wrote a dissent to the report, arguing their Democratic counterparts had committed a grave misstep that could jeopardize future presidencies.

The starkly different perspectives on Trump’s actions toward Ukraine likely foreshadow the Wednesday impeachment vote, which is expected to fall almost entirely along party lines.

Trump will have lunch with vice-president Mike Pence and participate in a roundtable discussion on the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation. He and the first lady will later speak at two Christmas receptions.
Defense secretary Mark Esper is leading a US delegation

to ceremonies commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg and Belgium.
The front runners in the Democratic presidential primary are spread out across the country today – with Sanders campaigning in California, Warren in Iowa and Biden in New York.

White House reviewing Schumer's impeachment letter
The White House is reportedly reviewing the letter sent by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer....
@SpeakerPelosi
Please don't send the article of impeachment to the US Senate after the vote sit on it until the elections