John Bolton and the Giant Impeachment
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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s legal team, including Allan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, argue that the president cannot be impeached for abusing his power. As the battle over Bolton testifying before the Senate intensifies, The Daily Beast’s Spencer Ackerman discusses the longterm impact of the trial on extreme executive power. He also describes his report that Saudi Arabia plotted to kidnap a critic of the regime on U.S. soil and the Cold War rhetoric deployed by the House Managers.
While Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are often portrayed in the media as being kindred political souls with identical and similar positions, there are some important differences, particularly on foreign policy. Sarah Lazare, a writer at In These Times, discusses Warren’s hawkish side, her team of advisers and her evolving position on Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an |
| 0:08.1 | abusive power or an impeachable offense. You cannot impeach a president on an |
| 0:13.7 | unsourced manuscript that maybe some reporters have an idea of maybe what it says. |
| 0:19.6 | Listen, I don't know what John Bolton's book says or doesn't say. Are we really |
| 0:24.0 | going to require the country to wait until his book comes out to find out |
| 0:28.2 | information that senators could have used? I'd like to hear from John Bolton. |
| 0:31.4 | A president, Trump, and Ambassador Bolton said diametrically opposed things. |
| 0:36.7 | Only one of them is willing to testify under oath. Who do you believe? I wouldn't |
| 0:46.8 | quote you even as an anonymous source. Can you be on deep background? Can you tell me |
| 0:51.6 | what you know? We are the great Satan, Lord of the underworld, master of the |
| 0:58.0 | raging inferno. Listen, I'm tired of your chicken-shick gains. I don't want |
| 1:01.9 | hands. I need to know what you know. If you continue to lie and cheat and |
| 1:06.7 | deceive, yes, there will indeed be hell to pay. The worst in American history. |
| 1:12.6 | Then I have an article two where I have the right to do whatever I want |
| 1:16.7 | as president, whatever I want as president. |
| 1:35.1 | This is intercepted. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm Jeremy Scayhill coming to you from the offices of the Intercept in New York |
| 1:54.9 | City, and this is episode 114 of Intercepted. Impeachment is hell. Or at least |
| 2:03.2 | presidential impeachment is hell. Throughout modern US history, there's been a |
| 2:09.0 | rather insidious plot involving both democratic and Republican administrations |
| 2:13.8 | to expand the powers of the executive branch. It's based on a view of |
| 2:18.7 | government and separation of powers inspired by the theory of the unitary |
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