Senate Votes To Acquit President Trump, Ending Historic Impeachment Trial
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Tamer Keith. |
| 0:06.6 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Susan Davis. |
| 0:08.6 | I cover Congress. |
| 0:09.6 | And I'm Ron Elving. |
| 0:10.6 | Editor correspondent. |
| 0:11.6 | If she justes, the Senate is now ready to vote on the articles of impeachment. |
| 0:15.6 | And after that is done, we will adjourn the court of impeachment. |
| 0:19.2 | And it is 6.44 pm on Wednesday, February 5th. |
| 0:24.0 | And about two hours ago, Chief Justice John Roberts announced the result of the impeachment |
| 0:29.9 | vote. |
| 0:30.9 | The Senate having tried Donald John Trump, President of the United States, upon two |
| 0:35.2 | articles of impeachment, exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, and two-thirds |
| 0:40.9 | of the Senate's president not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein. |
| 0:46.6 | It is therefore ordered and judged that the said Donald John Trump be, and he is hereby, |
| 0:53.2 | acquitted of the charges in said articles. |
| 0:55.9 | We've come to the end of the road. |
| 0:57.8 | This is not a surprise, and yet it does feel like it has fresh impact on the day that |
| 1:04.1 | it actually happens. |
| 1:05.3 | And it was a moment. |
| 1:06.3 | A each senator had to stand and say guilty or not guilty in two long series of votes on |
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