AS IMPEACHMENT ROLLS ON
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of the House vote, impeachment in the House moves forward. But what power does Congress really have to enforce their subpoenas now that Trump is telling federal employees to ignore them?
In the Senate, is Trump putting his thumb on the scale of justice by raising money for the potential jurors in his impeachment trial? And did Senate Republicans just vote to end health insurance protection for pre-existing conditions?
Despite Trump's impeachment proceedings, will Republicans win anyway by continuing to run a base campaign?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, trick or treat. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, we got a treat. |
| 0:19.0 | Impeach. |
| 0:20.0 | Yep, that's what's going on. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome. Welcome. |
| 0:24.0 | Amazing, the House of Representatives just voted 232 to 196 |
| 0:30.0 | to begin an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump in a relatively public way using a new set of rules, |
| 0:38.0 | which is actually more favorable to Trump than the House rules that were voted on and used against Bill Clinton or against Richard Nixon. |
| 0:48.0 | And the Republicans are all sitting around going, oh, the process is so unfair. |
| 0:54.4 | The process is more fair to them now than the process was against Clinton |
| 0:58.9 | or the process was against Nixon. |
| 1:00.6 | So let's just set that aside. But there's a much larger issue here. |
| 1:08.0 | When the House of Representatives voted to launch an impeachment investigation into Richard Nixon. |
| 1:15.0 | Now this was before they even had the tapes. |
| 1:19.7 | When they voted to launch that inquiry, |
| 1:34.0 | the vote was 410 yes, for no. And those four who voted no were all Republicans. So Nixon had four Republicans, and this is just to open the inquiry, right? |
| 1:38.0 | This wasn't to impeach. |
| 1:40.0 | In fact, they never got to a vote to impeach |
| 1:42.0 | because Nixon resigned before they could. |
| 1:44.0 | Just to open the inquiry, 410 to 4. |
| 1:49.5 | And today we had two Democrats who defected from the Democratic Party, Jeff Andrewson and Colin |
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