Replay: Wednesday House Impeachment Vote On President Trump

Update: The House votes along party lines to impeach President Donald J. Trump.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives is debating whether to make Donald J. Trump only the third president in the nation's history to be impeached, as Democrats move ahead with two articles of impeachment that charge him with abusing his office and obstructing Congress.

Trump, the nation’s 45th president, faces the prospect of being removed from office by Congress for high crimes and misdemeanors, though, given Republican support in the Senate, that's considered highly unlikely.

The impeachment vote is not a conviction but roughly the equivalent of a grand jury issuing indictments. Senators, in that analogy, will serve as jurors.