End of an Impasse

Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Lawmakers get ready for an impeachment trial in the Senate.

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0:00.0	From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.
0:09.2	I'm Steve Kurnaki.
0:10.0	Today is Monday, January 13th, and here's what's happening.
0:14.0	It's a key week for impeachment, nearly a month after the House voted to impeach
0:17.7	President Trump.
0:18.7	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to send over the articles of impeachment to the Senate where a trial could
0:24.3	begin as soon as this coming week or potentially next week.
0:27.8	It looks like we finally have movement on the Senate impeachment trial of President
0:31.8	Trump. We have confidence in our case that it's Senate impeachment
0:33.5	trial of President Trump.
0:32.0	We have confidence in our case that it is impeachable
0:35.5	and this president is impeached for life
0:38.0	regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell.
0:42.0	Have you reached out to Pelosi and you?
0:44.1	Have you spoken at all?
0:45.4	Not really?
0:46.7	Not really?
0:50.0	But after weeks of this standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate
0:53.8	Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has anything really changed?
0:57.0	What do you think now that this is actually about to get into your hands?
1:01.0	Well, we've been to actually to get started for the last how many weeks it been now we'll get about it as
1:08.3	soon as we can so today an article 2 will explore why this impasse appears to have ended and what it means for the next steps in the impeachment timeline.
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