The Impeachment Non-Trial with Elie Honig

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The US Senate refuses to hear witnesses in the Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump. Joe and guest Elie Honig breakdown what happened and what may happen next. Elie Honig is a former state and federal prosecutor with extensive experience leading and managing criminal trials and appeals. As a state prosecutor in New Jersey and a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Elie Honig directed major criminal cases against street gangs drug trafficking organizations illegal firearms traffickers corrupt public officials, child predators and white-collar criminals. Elie also serves as a Rutgers University scholar, is a CNN legal analyst and is featured on Cross Exam. 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.
0:33.1	Our guest is a former state and federal prosecutor with extensive experience leading and managing
0:38.6	criminal trials and appeals.
0:41.1	As a state prosecutor in New Jersey and a federal prosecutor in the Southern District
0:45.1	of New York, Ellie Honek directed major criminal cases against street gangs, drug trafficking
0:50.9	organizations, illegal firearm traffickers, corrupt public officials, child predators,
0:57.2	and white collar criminals.
0:59.4	Ellie also serves as a Rutgers University scholar, is a CNN legal analyst and is featured
1:05.0	on Crossed Zam, a staple at CNN on the weekend.
1:08.9	Ellie Honek, welcome back to Words Matter.
1:11.2	Glad to be here, we have much to discuss.
1:14.2	Yes.
1:15.2	So it's all over now in the sense of the trial.
1:18.6	I don't know that it's all over, intense of the political fallout.
1:23.6	How do you think the House managers did in their case?
1:27.1	Where did they score and where did they miss?
1:30.2	So overall, I have to say, I'm not just impressed, but really in awe of the job that the House
1:36.9	managers did.
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