The Impeachment Handbook with John Yoo & Richard Epstein

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Recorded on January 15, 2020 The impeachment proceedings against President Trump has now reached the Senate and to help our viewers navigate the legal and political issues surrounding it, Peter Robinson sits down with the Hoover Institution’s Visiting Fellow John Yoo and Senior Fellow Richard Epstein, two of the foremost legal scholars in the country. We cover the Articles of Impeachment submitted by the U.S. House of Representatives, the pluses and minuses of calling witnesses, the role of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts in the proceeding, and whether or not President Trump should testify on his own behalf. Finally, Peter asks Epstein and Yoo for their vote predictions on conviction and acquittal and gets their predictions for the election in November.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:01.0	Today, two constitutional scholars on the constitutional crisis, the trial of
0:16.3	President Trump.
0:18.4	Richard Epstein is a professor of law at NYU, a professor of law emeritus at the University of Chicago, and a senior fellow here at the N.Y.U. a professor of law emeritus at the University of Chicago and a senior
0:24.0	fellow here at the Hoover Institution. His newest book coming out next month that is in
0:28.8	February, The Dubious Morality of the Administrative State. John Yu is a the dubious of President George W Bush as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal
0:45.0	Counsel in the Department of Justice.
0:47.6	John U has a book coming out in June about President Trump and the Constitution that will be titled Defender in Chief.
0:56.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, Richard and John, two quotations.
1:00.0	By the way, as we record this, at this very hour, the House of Representatives is voting
1:05.9	to transmit the articles of impeachment, that were voted upon a month ago, to transmit
1:11.3	the articles of impeachment to the Senate beginning a trial of
1:16.4	President Trump.
1:17.2	Two quotations.
1:18.7	Speaker Pelosi, the American people deserve to learn the truth and the Constitution requires a trial.
1:26.0	Donald Trump, I did nothing wrong.
1:30.0	For now, very briefly, one sentence to wrong.
1:33.0	For now, very briefly, one sentence, two.
1:35.1	Who's right, John?
1:37.6	Trump's not right, but neither is Pelosi.
1:41.3	Oh, I saw right. Right.
1:44.0	Trump is, shall we say guilty of his customary hyperbole, if he said, I did nothing that
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