A Political Firestorm: Senator Phil King's Perspective on the Paxton Impeachment Trial
The WallBuilders Show
Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the intersection of faith in the culture. It's wall builders where we take |
| 0:14.8 | on the hot topics of the day from a biblical historical and constitutional perspective |
| 0:19.1 | speaking of a hot topic. An impeachment is a very hot topic. First one in something like |
| 0:24.8 | a hundred years in Texas and our good friend Phil King actually your state rep David and |
| 0:31.1 | Tim. He's our state senator. I'm sorry. He used to be your rep for years. Now your |
| 0:35.0 | state senator and so he had to sit through this whole impeachment trial. He'll be with |
| 0:38.3 | us in a few minutes to talk about his perspective of what happened. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah. This is a state impeachment trial. It's garnered national attention. Prison Trump's |
| 0:45.2 | been tweeted about this. Ken Paxson is one of the more conservative attorney generals |
| 0:49.7 | in the country has been very aggressive and going after unconstitutional things with |
| 0:54.0 | Biden administration. So that's why it has national focus. But at the same time an impeachment |
| 0:59.0 | trial is not a criminal trial. You're not necessarily trying to see if there's a crime. |
| 1:03.3 | It can be a political trial in the sense that you may have committed things in office that |
| 1:08.7 | don't rise to the level of a crime, but they're worth getting you out of office. So this |
| 1:12.4 | is a way of protecting office. They don't happen all that often. And this has been a |
| 1:16.9 | significant one. It ran for a couple of weeks here in Texas eight, ten hours a day in |
| 1:21.0 | the Senate. And so it's been a long thing. They've finally reached a conclusion on it. |
| 1:25.0 | And our good friend Phil King that you mentioned, he was right in the middle of that. He helped |
| 1:28.0 | set up the rules for the impeachment in the Senate. He's one of the leading guys on that. |
| 1:31.8 | And so it'd be real good to get his perspective on this national event. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, he's dialed in right now. Phil King, state senator from Texas. Phil, thanks for joining |
| 1:39.6 | us today, man. Well, thanks, Rick. It's always good to talk to you. Well, man, I'm hoping |
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