Donald and the Giant Impeach
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has become the only US president to have been impeached by the House of Representatives for a second time. Emily, Jon and Anthony speak to Republican Representative French Hill on why he believes this was the wrong action to take, and Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on what will happen next when this goes to trial in the Senate.
This episode also contains harrowing details about Lisa Montgomery, the woman who was executed this week in Indiana. Not just about her execution - but our reporter, Hilary Andersson, also tells us about the awful crime she committed and abuse she suffered in her life. If you're affected by anything you’ve heard and require support or advice, you can contact the BBC Action Line - bbc.co.uk/actionline
Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Frankie Tobi, Natalie Ktena, Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | There is an essential fact of journalism. |
| 0:07.5 | All news is local. |
| 0:10.3 | To you and me, Donald Trump may be a property billionaire. |
| 0:13.8 | The president of the most powerful country in the world, you bickwit us everywhere. |
| 0:18.5 | But if you live in airshare, he's just a local golf club owner, and that spawned the |
| 0:24.4 | greatest headline of them all. |
| 0:27.5 | South airshare, golf club owner loses presidential election. |
| 0:33.8 | Well we thought we had to go back and find out what headline they had this time round. |
| 0:38.1 | He's been twice impeached. |
| 0:40.2 | We waited all day for a headline to come, and finally we called them. |
| 0:44.2 | And this is you and who works on the newspaper. |
| 0:46.8 | Basically, so there's a golf club owner gets impeached for the second time. |
| 0:52.4 | You know, it's as simple as that. |
| 0:56.0 | To be honest with you, we were never really politically motivated when we gave away the |
| 1:01.1 | first headline. |
| 1:02.4 | It was purely because he's on her patch, he's local, he's airshare, and we always follow |
| 1:08.9 | what's going on with it because of that. |
| 1:11.5 | We never really expected it to go as far as it went. |
| 1:14.7 | We wanted to be a wee bit tongue in cheek. |
| 1:18.0 | There was no malice from it. |
| 1:19.9 | It was just meant to be quirky. |
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