House Republicans' months-long investigation into President Joe Biden is now backed by a vote for a formal impeachment inquiry.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to open a formal impeachment inquiry for the President.

The second impeachment of former president Donald Trump continues into Thursday. Proceedings are expected to start at noon. If you’re having trouble with the attached video, see the video below:

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Tuesday marked day one of the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Dr. David Richards, University of Lynchburg’s political science chair, said the process may be the same as the first trial, but he expects a speedier hearing this time. Senate Democrats need a two-thirds majority to find the former president guilty. Normal punishment would be removal from office, but of course, that’s not on the table. So, a second thing that they could do to him is to strip his right to run for office again,” explained Richards.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the White House residence after exiting Marine One upon his return on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)WASHINGTON – Senators in Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial have agreed to consider the case, rejecting an attempt by the former president’s defense team and some Republican allies to halt the trial because he is no longer in office. The vote was 56-44 on Tuesday on the question of whether the Senate has jurisdiction and could proceed. Trump is facing a charge of incitement of insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The trial is scheduled to continue on Wednesday at noon.

Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson along with acting House Sergeant-at-Arms Tim Blodgett, lead the Democratic House impeachment managers as they walk through Statuary Hall in the Capitol, to deliver to the Senate the article of impeachment alleging incitement of insurrection against former President Donald Trump, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)On Monday evening, another step in the second impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump happened. At about 6:55 p.m., impeachment managers, led by the House Clerk and the Acting House Sergeant at Arms, held a procession ceremony through National Statuary Hall and the Capitol Rotunda to the Senate to present the article of impeachment to the Secretary of the Senate. During that time, Congressman Jamie Raskin, the lead manager, read the article of impeachment on the Senate Floor.

From left are Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Schumer, Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., rear, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON – Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection for the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8. Under the timeline, the House will transmit the impeachment article against Trump late Monday, with initial proceedings Tuesday. A handful of Senate Republicans have indicated they are open — but not committed — to conviction. McConnell, who said this week that Trump “provoked” his supporters before the riot, has not said how he will vote.

ROANOKE, Va – With just one week until the inauguration of Joe Biden, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The decision comes as several lawmakers claim the president incited the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, denied a request from Democrats to host a special session for an impeachment trial. And so people have discussed, they could wait 100 days and even longer before sending the impeachment out to the Senate for action,” explained Hult. The Senate is currently scheduled to hold its next session on Jan. 19th, the day before Joe Biden’s inauguration.

The House vote on an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” was still underway Wednesday afternoon. During debate before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republicans and Democrats to “search their souls.” Trump would be the first American president to be impeached twice. McConnell called major Republican donors last weekend to gauge their thinking about Trump and was told that Trump had clearly crossed a line. A Capitol police officer died from injuries suffered in the riot, and police shot and killed a woman during the siege. Trump was impeached in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine but acquitted by the Senate in 2020.

(Senate Television via AP)WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving abruptly away from President Donald Trump, telling people that he thinks Trump perpetrated impeachable offenses. McConnell’s thinking emerged as the Democratic-led House moved toward certain approval of an impeachment article accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, an unprecedented second impeachment of his clamorous presidency. The Republican strategist said McConnell hasn’t said if he’d vote to convict Trump when the Senate holds an impeachment trial. The aide called a Senate vote on removing Trump a big risk for Republican senators, with many of them almost certain to face challenges in GOP primaries. So far, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has said she wants Trump to resign and Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has said he would “definitely consider” House impeachment articles.

ROANOKE, Va. – The U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump on the charges of abusing his power and obstructing Congress on Wednesday, as expected. Local lawmakers are reacting and releasing statements in response to the impeachment trial and President Trump’s acquittal:Ben Cline (R), U.S. Congressman representing Virginia’s 9th district“The Senate has finally ended an ordeal that never should have started. “President Trump was rightfully acquitted. Congressman representing Virginia’s 5th districtCongressman Denver Riggleman Releases Statement on the acquittal of @realDonaldTrump: pic.twitter.com/h28Lp2FVQX — Congressman Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) February 5, 2020Mark Warner (D), U.S.

A majority of senators expressed unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. Both Bill Clinton in 1999 and Andrew Johnson in 1868 drew cross-party support when they were left in office after an impeachment trial. After Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine, Trump temporarily halted U.S. aid to the struggling ally battling hostile Russia at its border. When the House probed Trump's actions, the president instructed White House aides to defy congressional subpoenas, leading to the obstruction charge. But a whistleblower complaint of his conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy set off alarms.

WASHINGTON – The Senate rejected the idea of summoning witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Friday, all but ensuring his acquittal. Despite the Democrats singular focus on hearing new testimony, the Republican majority brushed past those demands to make this the first Senate impeachment trial without witnesses. To bring the trial toward a conclusion, Trump's attorneys argued the House had already heard from 17 witnesses and presented its 28,578-page report to the Senate. Trump is almost assured of eventual acquittal with the Senate nowhere near the 67 votes needed for conviction and removal. Chief Justice John Roberts, in the rare role presiding over the impeachment trial, could break a tie, but that seems unlikely.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s legal team is preparing to wrap up arguments in his impeachment trial as Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans wrestle with whether to allow witnesses. The arguments from defense lawyers have jostled for public attention against revelations from a forthcoming book by former national security adviser John Bolton. He says Trump wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it committed to helping with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden. That assertion matters because Trump and his lawyers have repeatedly insisted that he never tied the suspension of security aid to political investigations.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he wants top aides to testify in his Senate impeachment trial, but he qualifies that by suggesting there are “national security” concerns that will keep that from happening. Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday at a global economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. Senate Republicans have for now blocked Democratic motions to immediately call witnesses and subpoena documents. On Tuesday, the Senate approved rules for Trump’s trial on two articles of impeachment. Democrats failed to persuade Republicans to agree to issue subpoenas for documents and witnesses, though those matters can be revisited later.

But McConnell's plan on witnesses lines up with the organizing resolution that set the structure of President Bill Clinton's trial in 1999. ___DRAWING THE CURTAIN“At all times,” according to Senate rules, a majority of senators present can vote to close the proceedings and debate in private. Senate rules say the trial must proceed six days a week — all but Sunday — until it is resolved. But here again, there's precedent for Trump to consider: Clinton delivered his State of the Union speech in the midst of his Senate trial. 51: The number of senators who must agree on almost anything to make it happen during an impeachment trial.

No matter what happens in this year’s election, President Donald Trump has already made history in one way. While Trump is the third president ever to be impeached by the House of Representatives, he likely will be the first impeached president in history to be nominated by a political party to run for re-election. In short, the ability of Trump — or any president who gets impeached, for that matter — to seek re-election while impeached is entirely up to the Senate. This was never a scenario for the previous two presidents to be impeached by the House, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Clinton was impeached in 1999 during his second term and wasn’t allowed to run for president again due to term limits.

WASHINGTON, DC – The impeachment process is on pause and will likely remain so until the start of the new year. President Trump, at a weekend event in Florida, blasting the house for impeaching him. The matter’s at a stalemate for now since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t sent the articles of impeachment to the Republican-led senate. She’s crazy," said President Trump. “President Trump, release the emails, let the witnesses testify, what are you afraid of?,” said Sen. Schumer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 8:55 p.m.No Republicans voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Conservative Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the GOP to become an independent, voted to impeach Trump on both charges. Those were the words spoken by President Donald Trump as he opened a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan, on Wednesday night. The New York Democrat explained that it's Vice President Mike Pence who'd become president if the House voted to impeach Trump and the Senate voted to remove him from office. The House has approved rules that allow six hours of floor debate on historic votes to impeach President Donald Trump.

ROANOKE, Va. – 10 News political analyst Dr. Ed Lynch said Tuesday it’s a surprise Democrats did not include a bribery charge in their announcement of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Lynch thinks that the abuse of power charge is the most likely to get passed by the House and lead to a discussion in the Senate. He said that, in a potential Senate vote, public support for the president’s removal will have to increase to convince Republican senators to vote against him. Public opinion polls show Americans are basically split over whether they believe the president should be removed from office, and some data shows support for impeachment has not increased since the start of the Congressional hearings. Lynch said a key for Democrats will be to convince Senate Republicans that the fate of the GOP is not linked to the fate of Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would deliver an unusual public statement on the status of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Across the Capitol, the polarizing political divide over impeachment, only the fourth such inquiry in the nation’s history, was on display. He said the Democrats were bringing a "slipshod impeachment" case against the president, but he didn't excuse Trump's behavior. “It is not wrong because President Trump is right," Turley said. Democrats could begin drafting articles of impeachment in a matter of days, with a Judiciary Committee vote next week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump next week, scheduling a Dec. 4 hearing on the question of “high crimes and misdemeanors” set out in the Constitution. The hearing, announced Tuesday, will feature legal experts who will examine the constitutional grounds for impeachment. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said that it will “explore the framework put in place to respond to serious allegations of impeachable misconduct.”The Judiciary hearing will come as the House intelligence committee is expected to submit a report compiling evidence of its probe into Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Trump and his lawyers are invited to attend the hearing and make a request to question witnesses, according to Democratic rules approved by the House last month. The Judiciary panel gave the White House until Dec. 1 to decide whether Trump or his lawyers would attend.

(Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was another major day on Capitol Hill in the ongoing House impeachment inquiry into President Trump, as several more key witnesses are set to testify. Alexander Vindman, Jennifer Williams, Kurt Volker, and Timothy Morrison all answered questions under oath in the latest chapter into this inquiry.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly. And he should allow all those around him to come to the committee and testify under oath,” Schumer told reporters. Multiple witnesses overheard a phone call in which Trump and Sondland reportedly discussed efforts to push for the investigations. In her CBS interview, Pelosi vowed to protect the whistleblower, whom Trump has said should be forced to come forward despite longstanding whistleblower protections. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said Trump “communicates in ways that sometimes I wouldn’t,” but dismissed the significance of the attacks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was targeted by the president’s allies in a “smear” campaign now central to the inquiry. “Quid pro quo: Bribery,” Pelosi said about Trump’s July 25 phone call in which he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a favor. In the phone conversation, Trump asked for a “favor,” according to an account provided by the White House. Still, Trump’s reelection effort raised more than $3 million on the first day of public impeachment hearings, and campaign manager Brad Parscale announced it now hopes to raise $5 million within a 24-hour span. “We’re in Chapter One of a process,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., a member of the Intelligence Committee conducting the inquiry.