Conway on the Constitution in Crisis
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the immediate aftermath of Trump's acquittal by the Senate, George T. Conway III joins Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman to discuss the impeachment trial, the attempted overthrow of constitutional democracy in America, the future legal battles for Donald Trump, and the unravelling of The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln), of which Conway was a co-founder.
GUEST:
- George T. Conway III (@gtconway3d), Contributing Columnist, Washington Post
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Impeachment audio, C-SPAN
- "Former president, private citizen, and perhaps, criminal defendant: Donald Trump's new reality" by George T. Conway III, Washington Post (Jan. 22, 2021)
- "In Georgia, a New District Attorney Starts Circling Trump and His Allies" by Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset, New York Times (Feb. 13, 2021)
- "The Predator in the Lincoln Project" by Miranda Green, New York Magazine (Feb. 12, 2021)
- Full text of Donald Trump's statement on his second impeachment acquittal
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| 0:00.0 | The years are 57. The days are 43. Two-thirds of the Senate is present not having |
| 0:10.9 | fully guilty. The Senate judges that the respondent Donald John Trump former |
| 0:16.3 | President of the United States is not guilty, has charged the article in impeachment. |
| 0:21.4 | And with that, it was over. For the second time in a little more than a year, Donald |
| 0:26.5 | Trump was acquitted in an impeachment trial in the United States Senate. This |
| 0:31.3 | time by a vote of 57 guilty, 43 not guilty, 10 short of the magical 67 needed for |
| 0:39.3 | conviction. Although expected, the final day was a crushing anti-climax coming |
| 0:44.3 | after a wild morning in which the Senate first voted to allow the calling of |
| 0:48.7 | witnesses, and then after a furious behind-the-scenes debate and a |
| 0:53.3 | veritable freak out about what that could mean, the whole idea of developing |
| 0:58.1 | actual new and potentially damning new evidence was scrapped. The decision to |
| 1:03.4 | effectively punt on the witness question will be debated for years, but it hardly |
| 1:08.5 | means that Trump's legal troubles are over. We'll discuss the trial and what |
| 1:13.1 | can still be in store for the former president, with veteran litigator |
| 1:17.1 | turn legal pundit George Conway on this episode of Skolduggery. |
| 1:26.2 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. |
| 1:31.2 | I will to the best of my building. Reserve, protect and defend. Constitution of the United States. |
| 1:37.2 | So help me God. So help me God. So help me God. So help me God. |
| 1:44.8 | I'm Michael Isikov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:48.1 | And I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor in Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 1:52.1 | And we are joined for his second appearance on Skolduggery after several years of absence. |
| 2:00.3 | The aforementioned Mr. Conway, welcome back to Skolduggery. |
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