The Latest: ‘Do You Hate the President?’

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🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this morning that the House of Representatives would draft articles of impeachment against President Trump. But what our colleague found most striking today happened a few hours later, when a reporter for a conservative television network asked the speaker, “Do you hate the president?” “The Latest” is a new series on the impeachment inquiry, from the team behind “The Daily.” You can find more information about it here.

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0:00.0	It started with a whistleblower's complaint about President Trump's contact with a foreign leader.
0:07.0	I had a perfect phone call with the president of Ukraine. Like, I mean perfect.
0:12.0	Today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.
0:18.0	Morning. Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
0:21.0	Yes.
0:23.0	Are we going to have a good Christmas?
0:25.0	No, we're just seeing.
0:30.0	Okay. It's Julie Davis in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times.
0:34.0	So the news today is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the thing that had long been expected, but that is a huge deal nonetheless.
0:41.0	Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heartful of love for America.
0:50.0	Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.
0:55.0	She announced that Democrats will draft articles of impeachment against President Trump.
1:00.0	And we will proceed in a manner worthy of our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
1:12.0	So help us God.
1:16.0	The way Pelosi went about announcing all of this was full of symbolism and history.
1:21.0	She calls the press to the Speaker's balcony in the Capitol.
1:24.0	There's this backdrop of American flags.
1:27.0	When crafting the Constitution, the founders feared the return of a monarchy in America.
1:33.0	She gives this formal address invoking the Constitution in the early days of the country.
1:38.0	And having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospect of a king president corrupted.
1:45.0	Corrupted by foreign influence.
1:48.0	She name checks all these founding fathers.
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