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The Bill Press Pod

"Midnight in Washington" with Adam Schiff

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4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

California Congressman Adam Schiff was the Lead Impeachment Manager in Trump's first impeachment trial and is on the Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection His new book, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost our Democracy and Still Could, starts with the January 6th insurrection but is more focused on the Republican lawmakers and Administration officials who failed to stand up to Trump.

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0:00.0

Hello friends and neighbors. Well, Donald Trump is the third person to be impeached,

0:12.0

but the only president to be impeached twice. But that's not the only way he made history.

0:17.6

In the short space of four years, Donald Trump managed to take over the Republican

0:22.4

Party, render the Congress useless and ineffective, undermine trust in the electoral process,

0:29.0

destroy our relations with foreign allies, make enemies of members of the media, and so more

0:34.1

division among Americans than ever existed before, all the while insisting that he and

0:40.2

not Joe Biden won the last election.

0:43.0

One favorite target of Donald Trump was California Congressman Adam Schiff, manager of the

0:47.8

first impeachment trial whom Donald Trump called a liar and scum.

0:53.1

But Trump's now out of office, and Adam Schiff is still in office.

0:58.1

And the good congressman's out with a blockbuster new book on the first impeachment trial,

1:03.0

which documents how close we came to losing our democracy under Donald Trump and might still do so if Trump ever returns to power. His new book is called

1:14.2

Midnight in Washington, how we almost lost our democracy and still could. And it is number one on the New York

1:21.9

Times bestsellerless. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us and welcome to the Bill Press Pod.

1:28.8

It's great to be with you. And I have to say, congratulations, number one, on publication of your

1:35.2

new book, Midnight in Washington, and number two, for making the New York Times number one on the

1:41.1

bestseller list. That is a pretty exciting, Congressman. Way to go.

1:46.2

Well, thank you. It does have the additional benefit of, I'm sure, driving Donald Trump crazy.

1:53.9

Which you will hear about for sure. I definitely want to talk about. By the way, I must say,

1:59.0

in my business, I read a lot of political books

2:02.8

most of them are not worth it your book is exceptionally very well written very informative

2:09.2

stockful of good stuff so I really want to say great job on the book well thank you very much

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