Iowa Democrats accept released a few more results from the caucuses. With 92% of precincts reporting, the ordering hasn't changed. Pete Buttigieg maintains notwithstanding the highest count of state delegates, with Bernie Sanders trailing shut behind. Sanders even so leads the popular vote.
Sanders' Iowa entrada manager has plainly sent a memo to aides, saying they "have a viable path" to overtake Buttigieg.
Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein)
Bernie Sanders' Iowa country manager sent a memo to aides tonight that says they "have a viable path forwards to attain a make clean sweep and retake the lead in country delegate equivalents and national pledged delegates." She also says staff have been working to confirm results. pic.twitter.com/QGk5i7tVuU
February 6, 2020
Information technology's nonetheless unclear when we'll accept results from all the precincts. The Guardian is continuing to track the results as they come up in.
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01:27
Summary
The Senate voted to acquit DonaldTrump on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, almost entirely forth party lines.
Senator Manus Romney of Utah was the simply Republican to bandage a "guilty" vote, denying the president his talking signal that Republicans were united behind him.
Shortly after his acquittal, Trump tweeted a video that cast Romney as "slippery". Trump's son Donald Trump, Jr. called for the Utah senator and erstwhile Republican nominee for president to exist "expelled" from the Republican party.
All the Democrats cast "guilty" verdicts on both articles.
Democratic leaders have promised to keep investigating Trump and his conduct toward Ukraine, though leaders say they're still weighing how to proceed.
The president and his supporters rejoiced at his amortization. Vice President Mike Pence said, "It'south been an incredible week." Trump tweeted a meme nigh never leaving office.
Trump said he would publicly discuss his acquittal at the White House tomorrow at 12 pm ET.
The full results of the Iowa caucuses still haven't been released. With 85% of precincts reporting, Pete Buttigieg has maintained his narrow lead over Bernie Sanders. Sanders, however, leads in the popular vote.
01:02
Will Democrats keep investigating Trump?
Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler listen to President Donald Trump deliver the Land of the Marriage address in the House bedchamber on February four, 2020. Photograph: Puddle/Getty Images
The impeachment trial has ended in acquittal, but Congress tin can go along investigating the president'due south behave toward Ukraine, fight to access his financial documents and hear testimony from witnesses that the Senate chose not to question. Democrats have promised to hold the president to account, though Democratic leaders are withal weighing how to continue, according to Politico:
"We haven't made whatsoever decisions virtually what comes next," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the House's lead impeachment prosecutor, said in an interview. "Nosotros wanted to get through the trial, and so we'll accept those conversations among our caucus, within leadership. Right now we're just trying to take stock of what but took place."
Pelosi did not reply to a question belatedly Wed about her plans for the Ukraine investigation. Just in a argument she more broadly foreshadowed connected efforts to investigate Trump — ones that also center on Trump's finances and allegations of self-dealing.
"The House will continue to protect and defend the checks and balances in the Constitution that safeguard our Republic, both in the courts of law and in the courtroom of public opinion," Pelosi said.
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00:37
How did Donald Trump escape impeachment? The Guardian's Tom McCarthy reviews the many factors that that all but guaranteed Trump's acquittal.
00:09
Nancy Pelosi rips a copy of Donald Trump's speech after he delivered the State of the Union address. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
House Republicans have introduced legislation to register disapproval of Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she ripped upward a copy of Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.
"Whereas, the conduct of Speaker Pelosi was a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the articulation session to the ignominy of the Business firm," the resolution reads. "Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior of Speaker Pelosi during the joint session of Congress held on Feb four, 2020."
The resolution, introduced by Texas Representative Kay Granger is unlikely to get anywhere — Representatives are expected to vote to table it tomorrow.
23:35
Donald Trump'south campaign sent a fundraising nail soon after the Senate voted to acquit him. "We are STRONGER THAN EVER," the email reads:
Todd J. Gillman (@toddgillman)
Trump raising $ off #impeachment verdict: "The biggest Witch Hunt in the history of politics is finally over and ...we are STRONGER THAN Ever BEFORE...Nervous Nancy, Adam Shifty Schiff, Jerry and Cryin' Chuck accept been LYING to the American People" in order to steal the election. pic.twitter.com/4MbCikXxW2
February 5, 2020
The White House has claimed "total vindication and exoneration" following the acquittal.
Trump, meanwhile, has tweeted a video casting Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator to vote for an article of impeachment, equally "slippery". The president's son, Donald Trump, Jr. has called for Romney to be expelled from the Republican Political party.
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23:20
House managers: 'The president will non be vindicated'
In an op-ed published in the Washington Postal service, the House managers who argued the example against Donald Trump over the past ii weeks once more condemned the president's actions, and the Senate's decision to conduct him.
"If left in office, the president will non stop trying to cheat in the adjacent election until he succeeds," they wrote, adding that the only option was to vote him out of office.
Considering of the impeachment process, voters tin can at present stand up forewarned of the lengths to which the president volition go to endeavor to secure his reelection, violating the law and undermining our national security and that of our allies.
Past denying the American people a fair trial, Senate Bulk Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also deprived the president of something that he desperately sought — exoneration. There can be no exoneration without a legitimate trial. Out of fear of what they would learn, the Senate refused to hold one. The president will not be vindicated, and neither volition the Senate, certainly not by history.
23:08
In case any representatives missed the big news...
Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan)
Firm just received the following message from the Senate that President Trump was acquitted on the ii manufactures of impeachment:
"I have been directed past the Senate to inform the House of the judgement of the Senate in the case of Donald John Trump." pic.twitter.com/UfuAO0vckY
Feb v, 2020
Congress was formally notified of Donald Trump's amortization.
23:01
Evening summary
That'southward it from me after another historic twenty-four hours in Washington. My west declension colleague, Maanvi Singh, will take over the blog for the next few hours.
Here'south where the 24-hour interval stands:
As expected, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstacle of Congress.
Republican senator Mitt Romney broke ranks to vote for conviction on the first article of impeachment, abuse of ability, although he voted for amortization on obstruction of Congress. The stunning motion robbed Trump of his cardinal talking betoken that Republicans were unified in opposing his removal from office.
Every Democratic senator cast "guilty" verdicts on both articles of impeachment, pregnant Senate Democrats were actually more unified than their Republican colleagues on the impeachment vote.
Trump said he would addess the acquittal in a public statement at the White Firm tomorrow at 12 pm ET.
More results are trickling out from the Iowa caucuses, merely Pete Buttigieg has maintained his narrow lead over Bernie Sanders.
Maanvi volition have more updates and analysis coming, and then stay tuned.
22:53
Speaking in Pennsylvania at a "Women for Trump" event, vice president Mike Pence praised Trump's State of the Union address and celebrated his amortization.
"Terminal nighttime I had a real good seat at the Country of the Matrimony," Pence said to cheers. He and so made a veiled reference to Firm speaker Nancy Pelosi tearing upward her copy of Trump's remarks. "I get the feeling the woman sitting adjacent to me didn't like the spoken language as much as I did," Pence said.
He and then turned his focus to the Senate amortization vote. "After a sham investigation and partisan impeachment, it's over, America," Pence said. "It's been an incredible calendar week."
22:51
House speaker Nancy Pelosi has issued a argument denouncing the Senate's vote to deport Trump and reiterating that he will be impeached "forever."
Alana Abramson (@aabramson)
Lengthy Pelosi argument on articles of impeachment picture.twitter.com/cuhqnHnQdO
February v, 2020
"Today, the President and Senate Republicans have normalized lawlessness and rejected the arrangement of checks and balances of our Constitution," Pelosi said.
The speaker once again lamented the Senate's determination not to hear from new witnesses, arguing the lack of evidence delegitimized Trump's amortization.
"The President will boast that he has been acquitted. There can be no acquittal without a trial, and there is no trial without witnesses, documents and prove," Pelosi said. "The President has been impeached forever."
22:38
In a letter to the Secret Service requesting Hunter Biden's travel records, Republican senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson said they were "reviewing potential conflicts of interest posed past the business organisation activities of Hunter Biden and his assembly during the Obama assistants, particularly with respect to his business activities in Ukraine and Prc."
Grassley, the chairman of the Senate finance commission, and Johnson, the chairman of the homeland security committee, wrote, "We write to request information well-nigh whether Hunter Biden used government-sponsored travel to help acquit private business, to include his work for Rosemont Seneca and related entities in People's republic of china and Ukraine."
It's worth noting that Republicans controlled the Senate for the terminal 2 years of Barack Obama'south presidency, when Hunter Biden was serving on the lath of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. They could have launched the investigation then, merely they just raised concerns nigh Biden's business activities after Trump's allies tried to force per unit area Ukraine to look into the affair.
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22:34
Republican senators asking Hunter Biden's travel records
Moments subsequently Trump's acquittal in the impeachment trial, ii Republican senators indicated they intend to proceed investigating Hunter Biden's business activities in Ukraine.
Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge)
Breaking: from their printing office -
"Good afternoon, Senators Grassley and Johnson today requested Hunter Biden's official travel records from the U.Southward. Clandestine Service equally a part of their ongoing probe into potential conflicts of interest.
A total news release is forthcoming"
Feb v, 2020
During the trial, Republicans repeatedly tried to deflect attention away from the allegations against Trump by raising concerns about the concern activities of the former vice president's son.
But US and Ukrainian officials accept said in that location is no prove Joe Biden or his son violated whatever corruption laws when Hunter was serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
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22:29
White House claims 'total vindication and exoneration' subsequently acquittal
In a new statement, White Firm press secretary Stephanie Grisham lambasted "the sham impeachment try" and claimed Trump had been completely vindicated later on the Senate voted for his acquittal.
Michael D. Shear (@shearm)
BREAKING — Statement from the White House press secretary on what she calls "the sham impeachment effort." film.twitter.com/wGxKkWnIXt
February 5, 2020
"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," Grisham said. "Every bit we accept said all along, he is not guilty."
Grisham also took aim at Hand Romney, who voted to convict on the first commodity of impeachment, in the statement: "The Senate voted to reject the baseless articles of impeachment, and simply the President's political opponents – all Democrats, and one failed Republican presidential candidate – voted for the manufactured impeachment articles."
22:fourteen
Maanvi Singh
As senators were voting in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, more results trickled out of Iowa. Merely something seemed off.
Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn)
information technology seems the new results have entered many likely Sanders results in Polk County equally Deval Patrick or Steyer.
February five, 2020
Every bit the New York Times' Nate Cohn pointed out, it seemed as if SDEs for Bernie Sanders had gone to Deval Patrick or Tom Steyer. SDE'due south owed to Elizabeth Warren may take gone to Steyer as well.
The Iowa Democratic Party noted the error, and issued a correction soon afterwards. Sanders' delegates from counties he'd conspicuously won were restored.
Iowa Democrats (@iowademocrats)
In that location will be a pocket-sized correction to the terminal batch of results and we will exist pushing an update momentarily.
February five, 2020
Per the latest numbers, with 85% of precincts reporting, information technology appears Pete Buttigieg has maintained a narrow lead.
22:12
Trump to addresses amortization in public argument tomorrow
Trump said in a tweet that he would accost his acquittal in the impeachment trial in a public statement at the White House tomorrow at 12 pm ET.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
I will be making a public statement tomorrow at 12:00pm from the @WhiteHouse to talk over our Land's VICTORY on the Impeachment Hoax!
February 5, 2020
Because Trump'south first response to the amortization was to tweet a meme about his presidency lasting "4EVA," information technology seems unlikely he will be particularly contrite in the statement.
In comparison, when Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in 1999, he reacted past telling the American people that he was "greatly deplorable for all I have done wrong in words and deeds."
CSPAN (@cspan)
Feb 12, 1999 – President Beak Clinton following acquittal past the Senate: "I want to say over again to the American people how profoundly sad I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people." pic.twitter.com/ZfnL4CkxHs
January 31, 2020
22:08
Trump's allies, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, are boasting that the president has been "acquitted for life" following the Senate's impeachment vote.
Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani)
Acquitted for life!
February 5, 2020
Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader)
Acquitted for life. flick.twitter.com/HgqBXwpoWK
February 5, 2020
The phrase seems to be a jab at Firm speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has said that Trump'due south legacy will forever exist marred by the impeachment.
"I think that we have pulled back a veil of behavior totally unacceptable to our founders, and that the public volition see this with a clearer middle, an unblurred eye," Pelosi told the New York Times before this week. "Whatever happens, he has been impeached forever."
22:02
Speaking to reporters after the acquittal vote, Senate bulk leader Mitch McConnell said vulnerable Republicans facing difficult reelections have been politically aided by the impeachment trial.
"I tin can tell yous every bit a poll watcher who's looking at polls in certain Senate races, every one of our people in tough races … is in amend shape today than they were before the impeachment trial started," McConnell said.
The majority leader added he was "surprised and disappointed" by Manus Romney's conclusion to convict on the first commodity of impeachment, merely he did not seem to give any credence to the far-fetched idea of expelling Romney from the Republican briefing.
Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake)
I asked @senatemajldr if in that location's room in the Republican political party for someone who voted to captive President Trump. He said he was "surprised and disappointed" past Romney'south vote- but Romney continues to piece of work with GOP on vast majority of issues pic.twitter.com/2euvyj729f
February 5, 2020
McConnell too repeatedly dodged a question about whether it was appropriate for the president to enquire Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
"I'm here to talk most the political impact of this," McConnell said.
Alana Abramson (@aabramson)
Michael D. Shear (@shearm)
Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader)
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