#DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Krista from Harvard Law School Class of 1994. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm calling from Thailand where I've been up all night watching the impeachment hearings, |
| 0:08.8 | but I keep dozing off to sleep while listening to some of the congressmen drone on and on. |
| 0:15.4 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:17.6 | It's 310 Eastern on Thursday, December 5th. |
| 0:20.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:23.6 | but I'll never forget waking up to see my classmate Paul Taylor |
| 0:27.6 | sitting in the Republican Council chair interviewing Professor Jonathan Turley. |
| 0:32.4 | All right, here's the show. |
| 0:37.1 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro, I cover the campaign. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm Usma Khaled, I also cover the campaign. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Wanna Summers, I cover Demographics and Culture. |
| 0:45.4 | Okay, so we're going to talk a lot about the campaign today, but first, noting it, |
| 0:48.8 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official today. |
| 0:51.9 | The House of Representatives is going to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Trump. |
| 0:56.6 | The President leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt once again |
| 1:03.6 | the election for his own benefit. |
| 1:05.8 | So no big surprise there. |
| 1:07.4 | A historic moment, nevertheless, we're looking at an impeachment of the President on the House floor |
| 1:12.4 | for maybe just the third time in US history in the coming weeks. |
| 1:15.8 | But Wanna, as all of this was happening, you were driving across Iowa and as I hear |
| 1:22.7 | a swerving out of the way of dear carcasses. I wouldn't maybe go that far, but it's been quite a busy |
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