Ep. 159: Once More With Feeling

The TPM Show with Josh and Kate

Talking Points Memo

Republicans, Politics, Government, News, Democrats

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Josh, Kate and David discuss the opening day of Trump’s second impeachment trial, along with the glut of Republican retirements and what it means for the 2022 midterms.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.
0:07.8	We are on the second day of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump today.
0:16.3	It's funny yesterday I was running quick errand and while I was in the car but not actually
0:24.8	driving, it took my cell phone and I was seeing if I could find a live feed of what was
0:29.4	going on in the impeachment trial.
0:31.9	I figured Trump, impeachment, video feed, and with Google basically, in so many words,
0:38.2	which one?
0:39.6	Which trial, right?
0:43.0	It's one of these things about Donald Trump, which is not the impeachment trial of Donald
0:48.6	Trump.
0:49.6	Which one are you talking about?
0:50.6	Which time when he was put on trial?
0:56.3	It's funny.
0:58.3	In some ways, you know, the whole thing, you know, first time is tragedy, second time is
1:02.0	farce.
1:03.0	But here, obviously, the first impeachment trial is basically a farce.
1:08.3	Although this one somehow more so if only because I guess the first time sort of, you
1:20.1	know, kind of putting the Senate through its motions, putting the Republican majority
1:24.2	through its motions, do you really not care at all that this happened?
1:28.2	Not at all, right?
1:31.4	And now we know, right?
1:32.8	I mean, we know that quite literally they do not care.
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