How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

Impeachment, Explained

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Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, the fact-finding phase of the Trump impeachment inquiry officially ended. Reports were released, hearings were held, articles of impeachment are being drafted. Andrew Prokop helps us break it all down. Then, the impeachment analogue that most closely resembles what we are going through today isn’t Clinton or Nixon, it’s Andrew Johnson. Historian Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers, helps us understand the trial that shaped our nation’s conception of what impeachment means. Plus, how the GOP has become a definitively anti-Constitutional party. Want to contact the show? Reach out at [email protected] Ezra's book is available for pre-order! You can find it at www.EzraKlein.com. You can subscribe to Ezra's other podcast The Ezra Klein Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts Credits: Producer - Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma Theme music composed by Jon Natchez Special thanks to Liz Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.0	This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Did President Trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power
0:38.2	based on that evidence and those findings?
0:41.0	Based on that evidence and those findings, the president did commit an impeachable
0:44.7	abuse of office.
0:45.7	Professor Carlin, same question.
0:48.1	Same answer.
0:49.8	And Professor Gerhart.
0:51.4	We three are unanimous. I'm Ezra Klein and this is impeachment explained.
1:11.5	This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is instructing the House Judiciary Committee to drop
1:16.8	articles of impeachment. So we are doing this. It is a week that we've moved from the Intelligence
1:20.8	Committee to the Judiciary Committee, the week we have moved from the Intelligence Committee to the Judiciary Committee the week we have moved
1:23.3	from the committee that is finding out what Donald Trump did to the committee that is trying to understand
1:28.2	did it count as impeachable. Was it a high crime, treason, a misdemeanor, bribery?
1:34.8	This is also the week when we began to see the Republican narratives and Democratic
1:39.3	narratives really crystallized into shape.
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