Post-Trump Politics

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2 • 156 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton hosts a US Special from Washington DC and this week the panel discuss the extraordinary events in Congress as Donald Trumps is impeached for a second time - and in his final week as President.

They also assess whether the Joe Biden era will mark the beginning of the Kamala Harris effect on international relations and what is in store for the UK/US relationship.

And what next for the post-Trump Republican party?

Joining Adam this week are:
The former deputy editor of The Sunday Times Sarah Baxter, the author and former aide to Bill Clinton Sidney Blumenthal, and Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engelt.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.6	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim
0:28.0	wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast. I'm Adam Bolton. It's a transatlantic edition this week. I'm in Washington, D.C., so are two of my guests. And it's been a sensational week in his final week, just six days to go. Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States, has just entered the record books by being impeached for a second time.
1:00.4	Joining me to discuss the implications of that and to look ahead to Joe Biden's inauguration next Wednesday and what lies in store after that for the UK's relationship with the United States,
1:12.7	which some people like to call the special relationship, are Sarah Baxter of the Sunday
1:18.2	Times former deputy editor now covering this election sequence from Pennsylvania, the author
1:26.3	and former aide to Bill Clinton, Sydney Blumenthal,
1:28.8	and historian of Abraham Lincoln, and Sky's Deputy Political Editor, Sam Cote.
1:37.9	Well, let's first of all remind ourselves of the drama, the impeachment of President Trump. This was how the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
1:48.3	laid it out. On this vote, the ayes are 232. The nays are 197. The resolution is adopted.
1:59.3	Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.
2:02.6	The president must be impeached, and I believe the president must be convicted by the Senate
2:08.6	a constitutional remedy that will ensure that the republic will be safe from this man
2:13.6	who was so resolutely determined to tear down the things that we hold dear and that hold
2:20.4	us together. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.
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