I'm Michelle Goldberg.

I'm Ross Douthett.

I'm David Lee and Hart, and this is the argument.

This week, get ready for impeachment.

I don't think you can overemphasize just how abrupt the change has been, the damn sort of first all at once.

Then, we talk about the 2020 primaries on the Republican side.

Anyone who runs for president against an incumbent president who probably shouldn't be president deserves a certain amount of credit

and admiration, and finally, a recommendation.

I have had a feeling that I've never had in the past, which is this desire to be in the future looking back analytically at right now.

Just one week ago, it seemed highly unlikely that House Democrats would impeach President Trump.

But then came the news about Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine to produce dirt on Joe Biden.

And suddenly, everything changed.

This week, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who has long been opposed to impeachment, announced that she's going to open a process that could ultimately lead to the president's impeachment.

Michelle, you've been in favor of impeachment for a long time, and I know you've been frustrated that it wasn't happening.

But I assume now you think it really is likely to happen.

Yeah, I really do. And I think it's, I don't think you can overemphasize just how abrupt the change has been, the damn sort of burst all at once.

I had a column, you know, calling out Nancy Pelosi for her failure to begin impeachment proceedings.

And for failure to do it after the Mueller report, which I think emboldened Trump in his latest betrayal of the country with Ukraine.

I had background conversations with people on both sides of this issue and got no sense as of Monday morning that there was any real movement.

And then by Monday evening, impeachment had seemed inevitable.

Well, I agree with you that it's likely to happen. And as regular listeners know, you and I've been on different sides of this, I have previously thought impeachment would be a mistake.

I thought it would have been a mistake after Mueller, because I don't think it would have persuaded people who didn't already think Trump should be gone.

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