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4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week House Democrats announced the official articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Trump is just the fourth president in U.S. history to face the prospect of impeachment for alleged misconduct in office, but many were left wondering why there were only two articles, one for abuse of power for pressuring Ukraine to assist him in his re-election campaign and the second for obstruction of Congress. This week, Rubicon host Brian Beutler speaks to Michelle Goldberg, a columnist for the New York Times and cohost of the podcast, The Argument.

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0:00.0

Saudi Arabia pays cash.

0:04.4

Director Mueller, isn't it fair to say that the president's written answers were not

0:07.4

only inadequate and incomplete because he didn't answer many of your questions,

0:12.1

but where he did his answers show that he wasn't always

0:14.8

been truthful.

0:15.8

I would say generally.

0:18.2

Saudi Arabia, and I get along great with all of them.

0:21.1

They buy apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million. Am I supposed

0:24.5

to dislike them? I like them very much.

0:27.8

The Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump charge him with abuse of power and obstruction.

0:33.6

And if anything is true in life,

0:35.7

Donald Trump has abused his power and obstructed

0:39.4

everything that's threatened his grip on that power.

0:43.0

Indeed, abuse of power and obstruction

0:45.0

are frameworks that Congress could use

0:47.0

to impeach Donald Trump for most of the impeachable offenses

0:51.0

he's committed, at least in theory.

0:55.2

In practice, the House of Representatives has chosen to impeach Donald Trump

0:58.9

for only the most immediate abuses of power and acts of obstruction before them.

1:02.6

President Trump solicited a foreign nation, Ukraine, to publicly announce

1:08.2

investigations into his opponent and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by Russia to help his re-election

1:16.2

campaign. President Trump abused the power of his office by conditioning two

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