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There were two distinct angles of impeachment being covered by ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News on Thursday. While the later was boasting about how “Democrats have beaten back repeated Republican attempts” to oppose the Articles of Impeachment against President Trump, the former was worried about the “moderate Democrats” in swing districts who might vote against their party.
“As we come on the air tonight, the House of Representatives is moving toward impeaching a president for only the third time in U.S. history,” hyped CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell. “It has been a day of passionate debate in the Judiciary Committee, and Democrats have beaten back repeated Republican attempts to throw out those articles of impeachment.”
Speaking from outside the hearing room, where the debate was still going on, CBS congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes huffed that “Republicans are trying to change these articles of impeachment or strip them out altogether, but the two sides could not be further apart.”
“As the party in power, Democrats blocked every effort today to pare down their charges,” she added during that video portion of the report. A short time later, she suggested the battle between both sides, “highlights the almost surreal divide over basic facts.” Of course, the Republicans were in the wrong according to the narrative.
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