Is Impeachment The Answer?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from the Kaufman Foundation, providing access to opportunities that help people achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity, regardless of race, gender or geography, |
| 0:14.3 | Kaufman.org. |
| 0:15.8 | Hi, this is Katie in Alexandria, Virginia, and I'm here hanging out with my baby |
| 0:21.9 | who just got his four months |
| 0:23.2 | shots. He's not very happy about it. |
| 0:27.2 | This podcast was recorded at 105 PM Eastern time, |
| 0:30.5 | Wednesday, January 31st, 2024. |
| 0:33.2 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, |
| 0:35.2 | but hopefully we'll all be in a better mood. |
| 0:37.8 | Here's the show. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh, hopefully he'll take a nap too. |
| 0:45.0 | Way to stay healthy though. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey Bear, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Sarah McCammon. |
| 0:50.0 | I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress. |
| 0:53.0 | Congress. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm Ron Elving, editor- correspondent. |
| 0:56.0 | Impeachment has often been a political tool. |
| 0:59.7 | But now House Republicans are using it in a new way, taking aim at a Biden |
| 1:03.6 | administration official who's responsible for border security, which is an issue |
| 1:07.5 | they want to be front and center in the 2024 campaign. They're trying to |
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