Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Wednesday October 2nd.

2019 I hope everyone who celebrated Russia China had a sweet new year. I'm John

Pajor. It's the editor of commentary with me as always senior editor A

Greenwald high Abe. Hi John associate editor Noir Rothman high Noah. Hi John.

And in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine. Hi John. So the

the story is that the on-rush toward potential impeachment continues with

polling data suggesting a big move toward a support for impeachment in the

American populace and more stories coming out about that have nothing to do

with impeachment but that sort of raised the the specter of the president being

bonkers right so we have we have the tweeting this weekend I think he's sent out

a hundred tweets this weekend and then this story from Michael sheer's new book

Michael Sheer and Dully Davis new book in the New York Times about how he wanted to

put a moat on the border with alligators in it and shoot migrants in the

leg to you know set of lesson and all that so all of which coming out all at the

same time then sort of merges together in this whole general sense or an

effort to create the general sense that the wheels are coming off whatever

Trump wagon there is I would only say this which is that it may look like a

great thing for people who support impeachment that impeachment has gone from

being 5737 against 4747 even four removal from office requires 67 senators

that is two thirds of the Senate which essentially a rule that exists in the

Constitution to ensure that the removal of a president from office is a result of

an overwhelming national consensus that is not present it is not present that

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