The Floodgates

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A deluge of new details about the Ukraine scheme have made Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump more desperate than ever to conceal as much incriminating information as they can. And they may still have the tools they need to keep the public from ever learning the full truth. Kate Brannen, the editorial director at Just Security who unearthed some of these details, joins host Brian Beutler to discuss the lastest extraordinary developments, and what Trump and McConnell, in their desperation, might do to prevent more of them from coming to light.

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0:00.0	I have been directed by the House of Representatives to inform the Senate.
0:08.0	The House has passed H-Res 798, a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald
0:20.3	John Trump.
0:21.8	He has been held accountable. He has been impeached. He has been held accountable.
0:23.2	He has been impeached forever.
0:26.8	They can never erase that.
0:29.9	There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that goes like this.
0:33.0	Nancy Pelosi delayed the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial for several weeks
0:36.8	to force Senate Republicans not to rig it.
0:39.8	And since Mitch McConnell didn't agree to hear from witnesses or to subpoena documents, that means she lost.
0:46.4	But the conventional wisdom is wrong.
0:48.9	She won.
0:50.3	To see why, Imagine Pelosi had referred the articles of impeachment right after the House passed them.
0:56.0	McConnell could have buried the trial in the Christmas holiday or convened it right after the new year.
1:01.0	Senate Republicans could have dismissed the charges or acquitted
1:03.8	Trump based on the bad faith argument that the House didn't hear from firsthand
1:06.9	witnesses, all of whom of course Trump ordered not to testify. Instead, Pelosi created uncertainty.
1:15.0	There would be no trial until we know whether Republicans plan to engage in a cover-up or not.
1:20.0	And that left every Republican senator hounded by a simple question.
1:25.0	Would they allow witnesses or would they block them?
1:29.0	McConnell didn't quote unquote cave, but it sure seems like his members did.
1:34.1	Main Senator Susan Collins told reporters on Friday
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