Impeachment Day 2

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig recaps the first full day of the Senate impeachment trial, from the performances of the lawyers on each side, to the vote on whether to move forward. He also breaks down the three key strategic questions to watch for heading into Day 2 of the trial. Elie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree.Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: cafe.com/article/the-stay-tuned-newsletter/ Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/impeachment-day-2/ Third Degree is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.5	From Cafe, this is third degree.
0:34.2	I'm Ellie Honig.
0:35.5	I'm Ellie Honig.
0:45.5	Yeah. I'm Ellie Honig. Welcome back, everybody.
0:47.0	We are officially into the 2021 impeachment trial of former president, Donald Trump.
0:52.7	Day one was Constitution Day. It was Scholars Day. It was
0:56.4	Framers of the Constitution Day. We heard four hours of argument on the Senate floor. I'm going to
1:01.7	boil it down for you here. I found that the arguments on day one were actually surprisingly
1:07.2	compelling. Maybe that's me being a legal nerd, but I found it to be really an
1:10.9	interesting study in lawyering style and argumentative technique. Heading into today, I honestly
1:17.2	expected it to be a fairly high-level substantive exchange between two teams of highly qualified
1:23.7	lawyers. Turned out I was half wrong. The part I was right about was the House
1:28.6	impeachment managers. We really saw some truly high-level elite lawyering and advocacy. Representatives
1:35.5	Raskin, Ngoose, Sicilini. I want to tell you, that is high-level stuff. That is the
1:41.4	caliber of lawy that I got used to from my years at the
1:44.6	SDNY. Now, why? What made it compelling to me? Their presentations were focused.
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