Donald Trump Impeached On Charge Of Inciting Insurrection
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Kelsey Snellick, I cover Congress. |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm Franco Ordonia as I cover the White House. |
| 0:12.0 | The time now is 5.34 pm on Wednesday, the 13th of January 2021, and President Donald |
| 0:21.2 | Trump has been impeached for a second time. |
| 0:25.3 | On this vote, the eyes are 232. |
| 0:29.9 | The nays are 197. |
| 0:32.1 | This time on one charge of incitement of insurrection. |
| 0:36.6 | Donald Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government |
| 0:42.2 | of the United States and that. |
| 0:43.9 | The clerk began the debate over the article of impeachment by reading the charge. |
| 0:47.9 | Donald Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the national |
| 0:52.9 | security democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office and has acted |
| 0:59.0 | in a manner grossly incompatible with self governance and the rule of law. |
| 1:03.3 | Kelsey, we had a day of debate in the end. |
| 1:06.8 | How did the vote break down? |
| 1:08.5 | It was 232 to 197 with 10 Republicans voting with the Democrats. |
| 1:15.5 | That is a significant number, something that we've been talking about here. |
| 1:19.0 | 10 is much larger than the last time, and it shows that the split that we have been |
| 1:24.5 | talking about between Republicans and the president is actually showing up in the way |
| 1:29.9 | they vote, not just what they say on background to people. |
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