In the News: Did Impeachment Make Trump Weaker or Stronger?
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell, Esther Iverem and Walter Smolarek discuss the conclusion of Trump's second impeachment trial and what lasting effects it may have on national politics. The panel also discusses how U.S. capitalism continues to fail to tackle the pandemic, Biden administration foreign policy, the attack on the independent media outlet Newsclick, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Another amazing week in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:04.1 | Donald Trump has been acquitted by a minority of senators in his second impeachment trial. |
| 0:09.0 | Did the impeachment of Donald Trump make him weaker or stronger? |
| 0:12.0 | We talk about this and other big issues in the news. |
| 0:16.2 | We need a new system. |
| 0:18.2 | We need a new society. |
| 0:20.1 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with |
| 0:55.8 | Brian Becker. It's February 16th, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news |
| 1:01.7 | right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the |
| 1:06.6 | corporate-owned media. I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Ivarim, Walter Smalerick, and our |
| 1:11.8 | host, Brian Becker. Esther Ivarm is also the host of the radio show on the ground at on |
| 1:17.1 | the ground show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:22.1 | And our patron's only seminar with Brian is tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7 p.m. Eastern. |
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