The End?

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of President Trump's acquittal, "The Investigation" co-hosts Chris Vlasto, John Santucci and Katherine Faulders recap the critical moments that lead to this historic impeachment trial. Then, for this 50th and final episode, "The Investigation" takes a look back at the headlining guests that joined the podcast over the past year.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the investigation.
0:02.4	A report this morning about a promise President Trump may have made to a foreign leader.
0:09.1	We had a perfect phone call with the president of Ukraine.
0:12.8	Everybody knows it. It's just a Democrat witch hunt.
0:15.7	We're coming on the air right now with major breaking news from Capitol Hill.
0:18.9	The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided
0:21.4	to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
0:24.6	Democrats calling their star witness the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor.
0:29.4	To withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign
0:36.4	made no sense.
0:38.3	It was crazy.
0:44.0	Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.
0:48.1	President Trump has just been impeached on both Article 1, abuse of power,
0:51.0	and on Article 2, obstruction of Congress.
0:53.4	The Senate will convene as a court of impeachment.
0:58.1	The president went to extraordinary lens to cheat in the next election. You know that what he did was not right.
1:02.4	No Constitution can protect us.
1:05.3	Right doesn't matter anymore.
1:07.2	You will find that the president did absolutely nothing wrong. There was no connection
1:13.0	between security assistance and investigations. Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true,
1:21.9	would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.
1:34.4	I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton.
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