The impeachment of President Trump
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:14.0 | So right now it is 834 AM. We are in the press gallery in the capital and we are waiting today for |
| 0:35.7 | the vote on the impeachment of the president. |
| 0:38.7 | This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers. It's Wednesday, December 18th. Today a historic moment. |
| 0:49.2 | Donald J. Trump becomes the third president to be impeached. |
| 0:56.0 | We're here to see how that all unfolds. We're going to be talking to reporters about what they're |
| 1:02.1 | watching out for. Hey Mike DeBonus reporter for the Washington Post. How's it going? |
| 1:07.5 | Hello, son of a... How are you? This timing worked out. |
| 1:10.7 | Paul came, congressional reporter. How is this day going for you? |
| 1:14.0 | Uh, this day is actually going so far according to plan. How are you splitting up? |
| 1:20.0 | Who does what? I don't know. Okay, so the short answer is I don't know what everybody's going to be |
| 1:24.1 | doing but it's all hands on deck. So I'm going to be watching mostly the action on the Senate side. |
| 1:29.6 | I am the senior congressional correspondent, the old man of the group. I'll be wandering the halls, |
| 1:36.7 | wall be in the gallery at some point, watching the action. How does today feel so far compared to |
| 1:42.8 | a normal day on Capitol Hill? I mean obviously there's a lot of press interest. |
| 1:46.8 | This really is a momentous day. I mean this is why we do this job. I mean it's history and we |
| 1:51.4 | get to watch it and reported for our readers and viewers and listeners. There's going to be a lot of |
| 1:56.1 | reporters. They're handing out tickets in the house gallery for tonight's proceedings which is not |
| 2:02.0 | typical. Does this even say impeachment on it? Uh, such a buzzkill. It's just... |
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