Hi, this is Newt, due to the virus I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference in audio quality.

On this episode of Newt's World, the Democratic effort to remove President Trump from office was a calculated hit job

which started when Bob Mueller was hired to lead the Special Counsel investigation to the ultimate showdown with the Senate's impeachment drop.

This dramatic attempted coup, whichever American witness, is the subject of Byron York's new book Obsession

Inside the Washington establishments never ending war on Trump.

I've known Byron for many years, he is a remarkable reporter and a great analyst, he's the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor.

He's covered the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations, as well as Congress and every presidential campaign since 2000.

He was previously a White House correspondent for National Review.

I'm fascinated because I do have such great respect for you.

He's an analyst and a very, very thoughtful student, the politics and government.

Why did you decide to write Obsession inside the Washington establishments never ending war on Trump?

Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate those kind words.

First of all, nobody had. There had been some excellent books on the Russia affair by Andy McCarthy and others, but they were a year or two ago.

Nobody caught the whole span of time from the beginning of the Mueller investigation, the roots of the Mueller investigation all the way through the impeachment.

I really wanted to treat it as one thing.

Actually, Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped me frame this.

Go back to December 2019, which is less than a year ago.

Democrats in the House were rushing to impeach the president by Christmas.

And a reporter asked Pelosi, what's the hurry here? Why the rush? And she said, there is no rush.

This has been going on two and a half years since Mueller.

And a lot of Republicans really took note and they thought, wow, she has finally spoken the truth out loud here.

This impeachment we're talking about, it's not really about Ukraine, it's not really about a phone call.

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