This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, March 6, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown, which Republicans

today are out of step with the future of the party after a contentious election even well

after the vote counting was done to a bloody assault on the US capital to

impeachment. Republican Representative Jamie Herrera Butler hopes she's not one of them.

We spoke earlier this week.

For the benefit of listeners, what was your role in the impeachment trial of the president.

I should say the former president,

because that distinction matters to a lot of people.

So I'm a member of Congress. I served in the Republican Party. I'm a conservative and I voted not to choose a side but to choose the truth and I voted to impeach the president the former president

after his role in the January 6th tackle the capital.

And what do you make of the claims by Mitch McConnell, among other Republicans, that the Senate

lacked the power to try a former president even though he had been impeached during his time in office.

You know, I didn't get too much, believe it or not, I was not too carefully following the Senate trial because that's

what it is it's a trial and sometimes we all know people who you can look at criminal

trials or civil cases where people who can believe to be guilty don't get convicted because of how something was tried or you know problems with the jury so on and so forth and I think

ultimately that's kind of what happened. You know, for my part on the impeachment

side it's a different standard than a jury trial, right? Where the grand jury, the lower burden of proof.

And I really felt like we had all the evidence we needed that was publicly available, really, the day of the attack, to consider it worth investigating.

And that's essentially what a yes vote on impeachment is.

Apparently the senators came to a different conclusion with regard to whether or not to

you know to convict him. So what is your assessment based on, you know, just the last few months of the

Trump administration and transitioning to Biden? What is your assessment of the Republican Party as an institution right now?

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