32: Guilty! Al Discusses Impeachment with Harvard Law Professor, Nancy Gertner and Max Bergmann, Not a Harvard Law Professor

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🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Al concludes that Trump is guilty, yes,guilty!, of high crimes and misdemeanors and so is AG Bill Barr after discussing facts with Harvard Law Professor Nancy Gertner and Max Bergman, director of the Moscow Project. They make the case that assuming Trump will be acquitted in the Senate is a mistake. Al concludes that "When you assume, you 'Make an Ass out of Uma Thurman.'" Uma discusses Pulp Fiction.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:09.6	You know, normally I don't talk about today's news. I kind of go into issues.
0:16.7	For example, one of our guests is Nancy Gertner, a professor at Harvard Law, a position she
0:21.7	got because she's 100% Ashkenazi Jew.
0:26.5	And we did one after Kavanaugh, and we did it on the Federalist Society.
0:33.8	So we did something that wasn't right on the nose, okay?
0:37.6	And by the way, this isn't going to be today's news because this is an air in a few days.
0:42.4	So it'll be outdated.
0:44.9	But no, we have two great guests, as I said, Nancy Gertner, professor at Harvard Law School,
0:52.4	and also a federal judge for 12 years, Nancy?
0:57.1	11 years.
0:58.3	And also with us is Max Bergman, who is director of the Moscow Project at the Center for American
1:06.7	Progress, and the Moscow Project has been doing a deep dive into Russian interference into
1:14.4	our election, if there was any.
1:16.8	And Judiciary Committee in the House met and many of the Republicans don't think
1:22.7	there was interference.
1:26.2	Is that right?
1:27.1	Yeah.
1:27.5	Yeah. On the committee today. Ukraine did it. Ukraine that right? Yeah. Yeah.
1:27.9	On the committee today.
1:29.3	Ukraine did it is the line that is still emanating for many of them.
1:33.2	That's so crazy.
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