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Impeachment, Explained

Impeachment and Iran

Impeachment, Explained

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would finally send impeachment articles to the Senate. Why now? What is the Senate trial shaping up to look like? And how will things change if former National Security Advisor John Bolton testifies before the Senate? Andrew Prokop has the answers. Then, the most popular question I’ve gotten over the past week is: Did Trump bomb Iran to distract from impeachment? This reflects a broader view that presidents routinely start foreign conflicts to distract from domestic political troubles. Is that true? And if it is true, does it work? MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky, author of In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq, joins me with the facts. And, at the end, a few thoughts on what the Senate Republicans’ resistance to hearing from witnesses reveals about the impossible problem this impeachment process has posed. 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, Engineer, Editor - Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma EP - Liz Nelson Theme music composed by Jon Natchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. The majority of this body is said definitively that we are not seating our

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constitutional authority to the partisan designs of the speaker.

0:44.0

This week, the majority of the Senate step forward to make it perfectly clear that this conversation

0:51.6

is over. conversation is I'm Ezra Klein and this is impeachment explained.

1:07.0

It had become a trope on the show that I start every week by saying this was a big week in impeachment

1:15.8

And this was not that big week in impeachment. So I want you to know that when when the need calls for it I will say that

1:21.5

We've been in a bit of a holding pattern.

1:23.4

And the holding pattern has finally broken.

1:26.1

Nancy Pelosi has been unwilling to send the articles impeachment to the Senate.

1:29.7

The Senate has begun threatening to move forward even without them.

1:32.9

And so on Friday, today it's the day I'm recording this.

1:36.4

Plus he said she'll bring the articles of impeachment and the resolution sending them forward

1:41.2

to a vote in the House early next week that will shape who the managers are.

1:44.6

I'm going to talk about all that with Andrew Procop. But then the big political event and also

1:49.5

geopolitical event of the past couple of weeks has been the US assassination of

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