Anarchy In The GOP
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The House is expected to send the article of impeachment to the Senate today, with the trial set to begin the week of February 8th. There’s a distinct lack of harmony right now in the GOP, with House members who voted to impeach Trump facing backlash from local party officials, and national Republican leaders trying to hold things together.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 25th. I'm Healey Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day where we are calling on Godzilla and Kong |
| 0:13.1 | to put aside their differences and work together to fight COVID. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, if you all want to fight, do it like the rest of us on Twitter at a distance from home. |
| 0:20.7 | Right. Do epic clapbacks at each other and one of you will win. |
| 0:24.8 | Yes. |
| 0:34.8 | On Today's show, How the World is Approaching New Coronavirus Variants, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.9 | But first, the house is expected to send the article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate |
| 0:43.3 | today. So that means dramatic photos and video of speaker Pelosi sashing to the chamber. |
| 0:48.0 | And it also means it's time for another impeachment news blast. |
| 0:51.4 | Another one. Oh, yes. Thank you, Khaled for bringing us in. |
| 0:59.9 | Yes. Yes. I'm glad to have them in the room with me. |
| 1:03.4 | So when we last left off, we said that once the articles were sent to the Senate, |
| 1:07.2 | a trial must begin the next day, but Senate leaders have changed things around this time. |
| 1:10.7 | So how is this actually going to work? |
| 1:12.4 | Right. So the actual official impeachment trial in the Senate won't begin until the week of |
| 1:16.8 | February 8th. So if you want to mark your calendar, do that. |
| 1:19.6 | Um, but that's to give the House managers who will be acting as the prosecutors and the former |
| 1:24.6 | president's defense ample time to draft their legal briefs. And this is all due to an agreement |
| 1:28.9 | between both Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. Incidentally, it also gives the Senate more time |
| 1:33.9 | this week to confirm Biden's cabinet members. So get on it. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah, they have a lot of work to do. So both sides are going to be preparing for this. |
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