The History of Impeachment with Professor Douglas Brinkley

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Last week, public impeachment hearings of President Trump began in the House Intelligence Committee – and pretty much everyone who does not appear on Fox News or the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show proclaimed the proceedings to be “historic” This week Katie and Joe discuss the history of impeachment with presidential historian Professor Douglas Brinkley. Professor Brinkley is is a celebrated historian and the award-winning author, co-author or editor of more than 30 books, most of these works focus on American presidents or people we know because of presidents. He is the Katharine Sarnoff Brown Chair of humanities and professor of history at Rice University. He is a CNN presidential historian and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.2	Our guest this week is a celebrated historian and the award-winning author,
0:39.2	co-author, and editor of more than 30 books.
0:42.7	Most of these works focus on American presidents or people we know because of presidents.
0:48.8	Professor Douglas Brinkley is the Catherine Sarnoff Brown Chair of Humanities and Professor
0:54.2	of History at Rice University.
0:56.8	He's a CNN presidential historian and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
1:02.0	Professor Brinkley, welcome back to Words Matter.
1:04.8	Well, thank you for having me. I love being with you guys.
1:07.8	So last week, public impeachment hearings of President Trump began in the House Intelligence
1:12.8	Committee and pretty much everyone who does not appear on Fox News or the Rush Limbaugh show
1:19.6	proclaimed that the proceedings were historic.
1:22.3	And today we wanted to tap into your expertise here and discuss that history
1:27.8	and how the current impeachment proceedings fit into it, rather than focusing on the minutiae
1:32.9	and the day-to-day headlines of which there are many so far.
1:37.2	So before we jump into the history lesson, Professor Brinkley, we had you on the show
1:42.0	back in the middle of August.
1:43.6	And we reviewed the transcript and were surprised to find impeachment wasn't mentioned
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