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Impeachment, Explained

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Impeachment, Explained

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Democrats made a strong case against Donald Trump. Republicans are being punished for supporting it. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained I'm Sean Rama's firm.

0:09.1

You may have noticed we took Monday off didn't explain yesterday.

0:12.1

That's because it was a long weekend in the United States Presidents Day weekend a weekend

0:16.2

dedicated to Washington Lincoln and the rest of the guys who have held the country's highest

0:19.8

office.

0:20.8

And this was a Presidents Day weekend to remember because the United States Senate spent

0:25.0

it concluding the second impeachment trial of the nation's 45th President Donald

0:30.2

John Trump.

0:31.2

You ask what a high crime and misdemeanor is under our Constitution?

0:36.7

That's a high crime and misdemeanor.

0:38.9

If that's not an impeachable offense, then there is no such thing.

0:43.5

This was history on history on history, the United States Senate, for the second time

0:48.6

deliberating on whether to convict the former President for wrongdoing this time, for

0:53.5

inciting an insurrection on the United States Senate.

0:57.2

Zach Beechham, senior correspondent of Vox has been covering it.

1:01.0

All in all, basically, the narrative presented by House Democrats was one in which the

1:06.3

President had spent months convincing people that the greatest political scandal in American

1:12.5

history was happening in elections stolen from under their feet.

1:15.2

We have an oil swing states major infractions or outright fraud.

1:19.8

If we are right about the fraud, Joe Biden can't be President.

1:23.6

Then he told all of those people to gather in Washington, D.C. outside of Congress while

1:27.5

Congress was doing basically the last step in certifying the results of the election.

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