Deja Vu: The Trump Impeachment Through the Prism of Past Impeachments

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

With Congress poised to begin public impeachment hearings, the Feds consider the coming historic juncture through the prism of the impeachment investigations of Presidents Nixon and Clinton. Eyewitness participants in those dramas spell out key distinctions that shed light on the Trump impeachment and bring into relief some of the high hurdles facing the House Judiciary committee right now. The episode brings together Judiciary Committee members and players from all 3 impeachment dramas—Elizabeth Holtzman, a Committee member and then the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress; Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment and a senior member today, and Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, the current Vice-Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and a member of the House Committee on Rules. Joining them is Lanny Breuer, former head of the Criminal Division at DOJ and special counsel to President Clinton during the 1998 impeachment trial. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to the first of a very special set of episodes of Talking Feds.
0:13.9	I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General
0:19.8	and a current Washington Post columnist.
0:23.4	We're here in Washington DC this week to tape a series of podcast episodes in front of
0:30.7	a live audience just blocks from the White House.
0:33.8	Thanks to our gracious host here at the George Washington Law School, George Washington
0:39.9	University Law School, thanks to your graciousness for having us.
0:44.6	All right, and of course it's not just any week, but one that's going to be in the history
0:55.6	books that we'll tell our grandchildren about.
0:59.3	All this week we will be talking about impeachment as the House gears up to undertake its grave
1:07.5	constitutional responsibility.
1:09.8	Tomorrow the House will begin impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump only the
1:15.8	fourth time anything like this has occurred in US history.
1:20.2	And the title of this panel is deja vu, the Trump impeachment and impeachment's past.
1:27.4	As it suggests we want in our two short 50 minutes to be drawing contrast and comparisons
1:34.7	between 1974 and 1998 and today and especially from the vantage point of the House Judiciary
1:42.8	Committee because we are incredibly privileged to have members, representatives from that
1:50.1	committee from each of the three impeachments past and we have a phenomenal set of guests
1:58.4	to discuss.
1:59.7	I really haven't seen a show like this and I've been wanting to see it for months so we
2:06.5	decided to do it ourselves.
2:07.9	So first we are really honored to have Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlan who represents Pennsylvania's
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