Barricade | 12
1865
Airship / Wondery
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Eager to be rid of each other, Stanton and Johnson plot each other’s political demise, as the country edges towards a constitutional crisis.
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Starring Jeremy Schwartz as Edwin Stanton.
Also featuring (in order of appearance):
Robert McCollum (Congressman John Bingham)
Sean Hennigan (Secretary of State William Henry Seward)
J. Michael Tatum (Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles)
R. Bruce Elliott (President Andrew Johnson)
William Jackson Harper (John Mercer Langston)
Aaron Roberts (Marshal James McPhail)
Chris Hury (General Lorenzo Thomas)
Brandon Potter (Charles A. Dunham aka Sanford Conover)
Created by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla
Directed by Robert McCollum
Written by Steven Walters
Executive Producer: Lindsay Graham
Co-executive Producers: Erik Archilla, Robert McCollum and Steven Walters
Music and Sound Design by Lindsay Graham
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| 0:00.0 | Impeach! |
| 0:02.0 | Stanton, you want to impeach the president for violating a law you've created expressly so that he would violate it? |
| 0:09.0 | Yes. |
| 0:12.0 | I'll need to discuss this with my counterparts in the Senate. |
| 0:15.0 | I already have. I sent them a copy of the bill this morning. |
| 0:18.0 | Why am I not surprised? Do I have your support, Mr. Bingham? |
| 0:21.0 | If the Senate will back us. Yes. |
| 0:24.0 | Mr. Bingham? I have a moment alone with Mr. Stanton. |
| 0:27.0 | Certainly. |
| 0:28.0 | Gentlemen? |
| 0:33.0 | It's never been done before. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm aware in the history of this country no president has ever been impeached. |
| 0:40.0 | I said I'm aware. |
| 0:41.0 | Maybe there's a reason for that. |
| 0:44.0 | Are you concerned at all about the president you're setting here? |
| 0:47.0 | Article 2, Section 4. |
| 0:49.0 | I forgot to say. |
| 0:50.0 | The president shall be removed from office on impeachment, |
| 0:53.0 | on a impeachment, for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. |
| 1:01.0 | I didn't set this precedent. The framers did. |
| 1:04.0 | So firing you is a high crime and misdemeanor. It is if Congress says it is. |
| 1:09.0 | Are you worried at all about the fallout of all this? |
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