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The Counsel

Impeachment Day 3

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig recaps the second day of the Senate impeachment trial, including the House impeachment managers’ case for conviction, and the never-before-seen video evidence presented to the Senators. 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-3/ 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, Jake Kaplan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe, this is third degree.

0:34.4

I'm Ellie Honig.

0:44.7

Thank you. I'm Ellie Honig. Well, day two of the impeachment trial is in the books.

0:48.6

And wow, if that was not a game changer, then I don't know what is.

0:53.5

If that doesn't change the minds of some of the Republican senators, I just don't know what to tell you.

0:59.7

I know I understand politics and electoral prospects always reigns supreme.

1:04.7

We always have to remember this is at core a political process.

1:08.6

But at a certain point, doesn't something else creep in? Isn't there any sense

1:12.9

of truth or duty here? And even if you're only thinking sort of crassly about your own political

1:19.8

future, your own electoral prospects, at some point, doesn't it become more damaging to support

1:25.6

or excuse this stuff than to just make a clean break and

1:29.5

condemn it? Now, before we get to the really sensational, just remarkable new evidence and the

1:34.6

videos, I want to talk a little bit about the advocacy we saw today from the House impeachment

1:38.9

managers. This was a clinic.

1:46.4

Students, law students, people just interested in how this works.

1:50.1

This is how it works what you saw today.

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