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From Cafe, this is third degree.

I'm Ellie Honig.

Thank you. I'm Ellie Honig. Welcome back, everybody. Before we get into it, first I just want to thank everybody.

We've had support for this podcast, really beyond belief.

And now that impeachment is done, don't worry, good news. We are sure as

heck not done. We're going to keep this thing going. We will have much more to discuss beyond

impeachment. So stay with us. And thanks to everybody for the great response so far.

For one moment, just a moment, it looked like we were going to have a trial, a real live trial.

And we had this stunning plot twist. One of those moments almost from the movies or maybe West Wing

where somebody was going to take a stand. Political convenience be damned, conventional wisdom be

damned, this was the right thing to do and we're willing to fight for it.

Until they weren't.

Here's how it went down.

So heading into Saturday, it looked like it was all but over.

It looked like we'd have this quick vote, no witnesses.

Then they'd have closing arguments, then they'd go to the final vote.

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