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Skullduggery

Impeachment: Day 1

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

CBS Legal Analyst Kim Whele and Yahoo News colleague Alex Nazaryan join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman for a special post-hearing round table discussion. They break down the testimonies and new revelations of U.S. Ukrainian diplomat William Taylor and Senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine George Kent that took place in front of the Adam Schiff-led House Intelligence Committee.

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0:00.0

I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:03.0

And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

0:05.3

And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.

0:09.9

And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,

0:14.1

tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.

0:19.9

If we find that the President of the United States abused his power and invited

0:23.9

for it to fear it's in our elections, or if he sought to condition coerce,

0:28.5

extort, or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his reelection campaign

0:34.1

and did so by withholding official acts, a White House meeting, or hundreds of millions

0:39.6

of dollars of needed military aid, must we simply get over it?

0:46.3

Is this what Americans should now expect from their President?

0:50.4

If this is not impeachable conduct, what is?

0:55.6

That was House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff,

0:58.8

laying out the case in Wednesday's public hearing for why President Trump should be impeached

1:04.6

and removed from office. It's a moment we've been waiting for for weeks now,

1:09.0

and it began with two key and very powerful witnesses. George Kent, the Deputy Assistant Secretary

1:15.6

of State who oversaw Ukrainian matters and William Teller, the U.S. charged affairs in Kiev.

1:29.0

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop,

1:32.0

well I'm not a crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:36.4

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:41.3

tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations for that woman.

1:46.4

There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

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