Impeachment: Lessons from the past
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting a mob that stormed the capitol building - making him the first president in US history to be impeached twice. With a Senate trial looming, and inauguration just days away, what happens next? We look at the past and into the history of impeachment for clues.
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Mark K. Updegrove, presidential historian and author.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:41.8 | tied and all eyes are on the incoming administration. |
| 0:46.6 | But nothing about this transition is normal. |
| 0:50.9 | Last week, Donald Trump became the first American president in history to be impeached twice, |
| 0:57.0 | after 10 members of his own party voted against him. |
| 1:02.0 | For this vote, the ayes are 232. |
| 1:05.0 | The nays are 197. |
| 1:08.0 | The resolution is adopted without objection, |
| 1:12.0 | the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. |
| 1:16.4 | With a Senate trial looming and the inauguration just days away, what happens next? In this episode we look to the past to understand what might be |
| 1:27.0 | coming. |
| 1:28.0 | Our long national nightmare is over. |
| 1:34.7 | Our Constitution works. |
| 1:37.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Manvin Rana. |
| 1:48.0 | Today, The Impeachment. |
| 1:50.0 | Lessons from the Past. January has become |
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