The Case For (and Against) Impeaching Trump
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If in fact, we don't hold this president to account, we will have normalized a president |
| 0:06.5 | who ignores the law, who ignores the Constitution, and who ignores the American people. |
| 0:11.7 | And to me, that would be a tragedy. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome back to a new season of Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan. |
| 0:24.8 | There's been a lot going on while we've been away for the past month, including a certain |
| 0:28.2 | report from a certain special counsel. |
| 0:30.9 | Where does the Mueller report leave the debate over impeachment? |
| 0:33.9 | I'll ask Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democrat funding, the need to impeach campaign that |
| 0:39.0 | seems to have Trump spooked. |
| 0:41.3 | I think that we have an obligation to make the case in front of the American people to |
| 0:47.2 | force those senators to confront their constituents and their conscience. |
| 0:51.8 | Then I'll speak to the well-known Liberal Journalist Ezra Klein, editor at large, Vox, who |
| 0:56.3 | thinks there's a big problem with impeachment. |
| 0:58.6 | The idea that you would not think about at all the polls or the public or building support |
| 1:03.2 | for it before you go into it because it's some kind of moral principle, I think, is wrong. |
| 1:07.4 | So on today's show, the case four, and against impeaching Donald Trump. |
| 1:15.1 | The polls show that Americans don't want to impeach the president. |
| 1:18.4 | Even support for impeachment amongst Democratic voters is down in the wake of the Mueller report, |
| 1:23.3 | which Attorney General Bill Barr and the Republicans have spun as clearing Donald Trump of |
| 1:28.1 | any crimes. |
| 1:29.1 | No collusion, no obstruction. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm happy. |
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