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🗓️ 25 July 2019
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0:00.0 | Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing sponsored by SoftBank. |
0:07.3 | And I'm Anna Palmer. Okay, let's play a game. Close your eyes and let me read the next paragraph to you. |
0:13.8 | I do believe what we saw today was a very strong manifestation. In fact, someone would say an indictment |
0:19.8 | of this administration's cone of silence |
0:22.6 | and their cover-up. This is about the oath we take to protect and defend the Constitution, |
0:27.4 | but some of the actions that the administration may have taken may have jeopardized our national |
0:31.7 | security by strengthening Russia's hand and interfering in our elections, undermining democracy, |
0:39.5 | not only in our country, but in other countries as well, upsetting our preeminence as a democracy in the world. This is very |
0:45.1 | serious. Today was very important. Now, take a guess who said it? It wasn't an impeachment stalwart, |
0:53.0 | who's ready to march to the floor to file |
0:54.6 | articles to remove the president. That was Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday evening at a news |
0:59.9 | conference, speaking about the day of hearings with Robert Mueller. Her message sounded urgent. |
1:05.3 | She was describing a campaign and administration run amok. But moments later, NBC's Casey Hunt told Pelosi that some Democrats were expecting imminent |
1:13.4 | action now that Mueller had set his peace. |
1:16.0 | Pelosi said this, I don't know why they thought that. |
1:19.1 | We have a number of lawsuits. |
1:20.8 | What the Speaker was saying was she wanted to allow a series of court cases to play out |
1:24.4 | before they make a decision on impeachment. |
1:26.7 | As Democrats enter a six-week-long |
1:28.9 | August recess, they do so with the leadership that says they believe Donald Trump has committed |
1:33.2 | a series of urgent and dire crimes. But at the same time, they say they are not ready to take action. |
1:39.0 | They want the strongest hand before they make any call. This is beginning to cause friction at the |
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