After Mueller: a dysfunctional White House and impeachment prospects
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Democrats are divided: impeachment now or further investigations? Top aides don’t do what the president tells them. News and social media report on chaos as government workers struggle to follow the law.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump claims he was exonerated by the Mueller report. Others insist it contains enough evidence for impeachment. And Congress, Democrats are agonizing about it. And we'll hear that in the voices of Adam Schiff and Brad Sherman, members from California with somewhat different ideas. |
| 0:16.1 | Meantime, Democratic candidates who want to run against Trump next year are getting this question. |
| 0:22.1 | You have called for impeachment proceedings to be initiated against President Trump. |
| 0:26.6 | What do you say to those Democrats who say, look, this is not the time. It's going to take away |
| 0:30.6 | focus from winning in 2020. So there is no political inconvenience exception |
| 0:37.5 | to the United States Constitution. |
| 0:39.3 | But I think we have very good reason to believe |
| 0:41.6 | that there is an investigation that has been conducted, |
| 0:44.3 | which has produced evidence that tells us |
| 0:47.2 | that this president and his administration |
| 0:49.8 | engaged in obstruction of justice. |
| 0:51.6 | I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment. |
| 0:54.1 | I think that has got to be a thorough investigation, and I think the House Democrats will do it. |
| 0:58.0 | I would very much appreciate if my Republican colleagues in the Senate, who run the Senate, had the guts to do it as well, but I won't hold my breath. |
| 1:07.0 | The impeachment proceedings are up to the House. They're going to have to make |
| 1:11.3 | that decision. I am in the Senate, and I believe that we are the jury. Do you think the House |
| 1:16.4 | should move for impeachment? I think he's made it pretty clear that he deserves impeachment. |
| 1:20.4 | I'll leave it to the... Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg. You can't say |
| 1:31.3 | they've reached a consensus, and neither have Democrats in the House where the impeachment process |
| 1:35.6 | begins. They have a majority, and some insist there's so much evidence. It's time to begin, |
| 1:40.4 | but Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's too soon. The House might be able to impeach, |
| 1:46.1 | which means bringing charges, but the trial would be in the Senate dominated by Republicans who |
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