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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The moment that impeachment got real

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

Politics, News, Government

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) helped kick off the latest phase of the House Democrats' impeachment debate when she and six other moderate members of Congress said that Donald Trump's contact with Ukraine could constitute an impeachable offense. She reflected on the weight of what that means in a raw and emotional interview with POLITICO's Michael Kruse, and Michael joins the show to share his observations. Plus: how'd we get here? POLITICO's Natasha Bertrand takes us through the timeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think this is the greatest country in the world and I think it's because of our constitution.

0:08.0

I'm trying to talk through this because I just want to get the information and I know we're on a limited time but I hate that I'm like

0:14.9

getting emotional about it but I just think that we uh

0:27.0

it's just been, there's a little bit of a lack of faith right now. Is this the percentage pride about this?

0:31.0

Yes, I don't know. I think that was just a long day yesterday maybe but yeah.

0:38.3

It's like a hell of a lot of pressure. Hey everyone. I'm Scott Bland, this is the nerd cast and that was Congresswoman Mikey

0:52.0

Cheryl and Politica reporter Michael Cruz,

0:55.0

who were talking Wednesday evening about impeachment.

0:59.0

And they were talking about Cheryl's prominent role in the events of this week, which were this.

1:09.1

The House of Representatives is moving more rapidly than ever down a road that looks like it could end in the

1:15.2

impeachment of President Donald Trump. It seems I think I've gotten the

1:19.5

impression for people that everyone's sort of taken up back a little bit because here we were

1:24.2

saying no we don't think impeachment is good.

1:27.6

So Michael has painted this amazing portrait of what one freshman house Democrat is wrestling with in terms of impeachment this week.

1:36.0

But before we can jump into that segment, we have to start by just outlining how we got here.

1:41.9

In order to really understand what's going on this week,

1:44.1

and a lot has happened just this week.

1:46.4

A lot happened the week before that, the week before that,

1:48.2

really you have to stretch back to 2014

1:52.0

to understand kind of the full sweep of this saga that again led to the

1:56.7

events of this week you had House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsing impeachment

2:00.4

proceedings you had more and more House Democrats doing the same.

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