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Articles of Impeachment

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🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg and Harvard Law Professor, Noah Feldman, discuss the three most pressing categories from which the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump may be drawn – corruption, abuse of power, and the violation of democratic norms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man now engaged in a

1:03.1

presidential rebranding exercise. Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Weisberg. So I wanted to

1:10.4

step a little bit out of the immediate news today for a discussion about a big

1:14.8

topic I think we're all going to be talking about as the midterm election

1:19.0

approaches. Impeachment or as Donald Trump might put it, hashtag Impeachment. Impeachment

1:26.1

isn't on the table right now for one big obvious reason. Without control of the house,

1:32.2

Democrats can't even hold a genuine investigation of allegations of collusion between the Trump

1:37.4

campaign and Russia. With a majority, Republicans are just stonewalling everything. But with

1:43.6

a gain of just 24 seats, which is not at all outside the norm for a minority party running

1:49.5

against an unpopular president, congressional committees would be able to investigate

1:54.3

Trump for real. Or they could move immediately to drop articles of impeachment, just as the

2:00.2

house did with Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. There's a strong case for impeaching Donald

2:05.1

Trump. Over the past several weeks, I've been emailing back and forth with my friend Noah

2:09.4

Feldman of Harvard Law School, where he teaches constitutional law. Noah is a very measured

2:14.6

fellow. He thinks like a historian and a legal scholar, not like a partisan Democrat. But

2:20.3

he's come to believe, as I have, that the argument for impeaching Trump is fully grounded

2:25.8

in historical precedent and in an originalist understanding of what high crimes and misdemeanors

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