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Today, Explained

The impeachment counternarrative

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Listen as Vox’s Andrew Prokop meticulously debunks the White House talking points around the whistleblower scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friends, I'm Sean Ramosprume.

0:03.9

This is today explained.

0:06.0

We spent four episodes last week covering the biggest story in the country, explaining

0:12.0

the facts around the biggest story in the country.

0:15.7

And the whole time we were doing that, the president of the United States, his pals at Fox

0:20.4

news, and a few other loyalists have been telling the country an entirely different story.

0:27.4

At Hillary Clinton and the Democrats cooperated with Ukrainians with the order coming directly

0:34.1

from the White House in January of 2017 to dig up dirt on her political opponent and

0:41.3

they did.

0:42.3

The president is the whistleblower here.

0:44.2

The president of the United States is the whistleblower and this individual is a sapetour

0:49.7

trying to undermine a democratically elected government.

0:53.0

If they succeed, the America that we inherited will be unrecognizable.

0:57.6

As we speak, what is happening?

0:59.4

They are attempting to remove a duly elected president from office based on nothing but

1:04.2

a manufactured crisis.

1:06.8

Wow.

1:07.8

Confusing, right?

1:09.3

But thankfully, Andrew Prokop isn't confused.

1:13.4

He's been covering the whistleblower scandal for Vox and today on the show, he's going

1:17.8

to clear up any confusion around the five major talking points the White House has been

1:23.2

pushing.

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