The Democrats’ case against President Trump
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🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post. |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post. Do you have a minute? |
| 0:11.6 | Hi, this is Dan Zag. |
| 0:13.6 | This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:16.6 | It's Tuesday, December 10. |
| 0:20.6 | Today, they're proposed to charges against the President. |
| 0:27.4 | The bacteria decimating orange trees in Florida and gaming with a disability. |
| 0:34.4 | Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, |
| 0:40.4 | the House Committee on the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment, |
| 0:45.4 | charging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, |
| 0:50.4 | with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. |
| 0:53.4 | Democrats announced that they are bringing two articles of impeachment against President Trump. |
| 0:58.4 | Aaron Blake writes about politics for the fix. |
| 1:01.4 | The first article is for abuse of power. |
| 1:04.4 | It is an impeachable offense for the President to exercise the powers of his public office |
| 1:11.4 | to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest. |
| 1:20.4 | The first article is abuse of power. |
| 1:23.4 | Basically, the idea that the President was soliciting a foreign government |
| 1:26.4 | to provide politically helpful investigations |
| 1:29.4 | and that he was withholding official government things like a meeting |
| 1:33.4 | and like military aid in order to pressure them to launch those investigations. |
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