Welcome to access to Prerata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

Sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank. Ideas Bank here. I'm Dan Permac. On today's show, racial inequality in automation and very bad news for private equity.

But first, impeachment and the big red wall.

So impeachment might seem like it's more about November 2020 than November 2019, but the reality is that it's seeping its way into other immediate issues.

China, for example, reportedly isn't planning to offer many, if any,

concessions during trade talks this week in D.C., perhaps thinking it can wait out a wounded

president. And many, many other pressing policy issues, from infrastructure to immigration,

to cybersecurity, to social media regulation, they all could get left in the dust if for no

other reason than that the White

House and the Congress are consumed by impeachment. That's all very real. What's less real,

of course, is the likelihood that Trump will actually get removed from office. Remember,

impeachment is just the House sending something to the Senate. It's the Senate, controlled by

Republicans, that would need a two-thirds vote to remove Trump.

And despite all of the recent revelations, despite Trump saying last week on camera that China should

investigate his political rival Joe Biden, there are no Senate Republicans so far who've said

they'd vote to remove and just a couple who will even criticize behavior that used to be

bipartisan taboo. The bottom

line, Trump won the White House by breaking through the big blue wall in 2016. Now he plans to use

the big red wall to keep it. In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper with Axios founder and CEO Jim Bandahe.

But first, this. This episode is brought to you by Silicon Valley Bank.

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