impeachment moves forward, but what if there's no cover-up and no quid pro quo?

Plus, President Trump calls a whistleblower, a spy.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

All righty, so let's start with the latest developments, according to EnM News, which I have not heard of,

but they are, in in fact reporting that Democrats

are aiming for a fast focused impeachment inquiry. They want to get this thing done before the

end of the year. According to Enm News, a crucial cache of evidence in hand. House Democrats

moved quickly on Thursday with an impeachment inquiry, they said would be focused tightly on

President Trump's dealings with Ukraine using an incendiary whistleblower complaint as a roadmap for their investigation.

The complaint landed like a bombshell on Capitol Hill Thursday morning after its release by the House Intelligence Committee.

Democrats quickly seized on its narrative of allegations against Mr. Trump chocked full of potentially damning detail, intriguing threads and characters who could become witnesses in the

nascent's inquiry as an outline for their work. After months of plotting investigation to determine whether

they had grounds to impeach Mr. Trump, Democrats were working feverishly to build a case on the Ukraine

matter, with some lawmakers saying they could move within a month or six weeks, possibly drafting

articles of impeachment by the end of October. So in a second, we're going to go through the actual allegations because, as I have been saying

all along, there are only a few theories of impeachment that even theoretically work.

One is quid pro quo, right? That's an actual theory of impeachment. The president committed

some sort of actual crime of bribery in which he held back Ukrainian military aid.

It made clear to the Ukrainians

that this was unless they investigated his chief political rival in the 2020 election as he saw it,

Joe Biden. That'd be the quid pro quo argument. Then there was the cover up argument. That was the

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