Mr. Feldman goes to Washington

Impeachment, Explained

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Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, the House Judiciary Committee announced and approved two articles of impeachment. Why two instead of 10? Why is this process moving so quickly? And why are Democrats prioritizing trade deals the same week as impeachment? Vox’s Jen Kirby answers the key questions. Noah Feldman is a Harvard Law professor and one of the constitutional scholars who testified at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing. He joins me to talk about what he saw, what he learned, and the Republican argument that truly scared him. Plus, on page five of the articles of impeachment lurks a clause many will miss, but I think it’s the single most important argument for removing Donald Trump. Want to contact the show? Reach out at [email protected] Ezra's book is available for pre-order! You can find it at www.EzraKlein.com. You can subscribe to Ezra's other podcast The Ezra Klein Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts Credits: Producer - Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma Theme music composed by Jon Natchez Special thanks to Liz Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	Some would argue why don't you just wait. Why don't you just wait until you get these witnesses
0:36.1	the White House refuses to produce? Why don't you just wait until you get the documents
0:41.7	the White House refuses to turn over.
0:45.1	The argument, why don't you just wait amounts to this?
0:49.3	Why don't you just let him cheat in one more election.
0:52.8	I'm Ezra Klein and this is impeachment explained.
1:10.6	I thought when I started this podcast that one of the tricky things was going to be
1:14.8	dealing with it in dead weeks that there was going to be these weeks where nothing
1:18.6	happened and so we were you know scrounging the bottom of the impeachment barrel for stories that hasn't been the case
1:24.0	the speed with which all this is moving is is warp speed and so I feel like I start every
1:29.6	week saying this was a big week in impeachment but this also was a big week in
1:33.0	impeachment we had the release of the actual articles of impeachment from
1:37.0	the House Judiciary Committee there are two of them not 10 not 15 there's a
1:41.4	debate about that we'll talk about.
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