Episode 61 (original 2020 series)
COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal
Neal Katyal
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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January 13, 2021
Trump becomes the first President ever to be impeached twice; arguments against it fell apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Courtside, the discussion of a legal mess that Donald Trump is in. |
| 0:05.0 | It's obviously a historic day. Donald Trump's been impeached. |
| 0:09.0 | Vote was very strong, 232 to 197. |
| 0:14.0 | For the first time ever, a president not loved twice, which is what he sure wishes, but impeached twice. First time in history. |
| 0:24.7 | Donald Trump's legacy, such as it was, is destroyed. And the vote took place today under very |
| 0:31.2 | dramatic circumstances. Consider first the location, which is chilling if you think about it. |
| 0:36.9 | The debate was on the hollow floors of Congress, the location, which is chilling if you think about it, the debate was on the |
| 0:38.5 | hallowed floors of Congress, the place of debate after debate over a nation's history, |
| 0:44.3 | but it's also an active crime scene right now. |
| 0:47.3 | And second, the debate was taking place against the backdrop of thousands of federal troops in the United States Capitol safeguarding |
| 0:57.0 | everyone, projected to be as many as 15,000 troops. Right now, there are far more troops in Washington, |
| 1:04.0 | D.C. than in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. And this debate took place during a big swing against Donald Trump in popular opinion. |
| 1:18.4 | Indeed, 52.6 percent of Americans support removing Donald Trump from office right now. |
| 1:25.3 | Look, he can finally say he won the popular vote. But also, there were 10 |
| 1:30.5 | Republicans, 10, that sided with impeachment. It may not sound like a lot, but we saw the most bipartisan |
| 1:37.9 | impeachment vote in United States history today. It sounds like killing to me. I mean, really, I never thought I lived to see the day |
| 1:47.4 | that I'd support a Cheney advocating regime change. The arguments by Donald Trump's defenders were so |
| 1:55.2 | weak. I mean, and the White House didn't even really bother trying to defend the conduct, and neither did |
| 1:59.9 | the members of Congress. |
| 2:01.6 | They fell into five buckets. One was, we need time to investigate and talk to witnesses, |
| 2:08.1 | interview them, and so on. I mean, now these people want witnesses and stuff? Do these people |
| 2:12.7 | have any shame? These are the exact same people who said last time around, a year ago, we can't have a trial, witness it'll be distracting, take too long, we don't need to and so on. |
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