The New Yorker on Impeachment
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The New Yorker
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🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
David Remnick asks five New Yorker contributors about the nascent impeachment proceedings against the President. Susan Glasser, the magazine’s Washington correspondent, notes that Republicans have attacked the inquiry but have not exactly defended the substance of Trump’s phone call to Zelensky. Joshua Yaffa, who has been reporting from Kiev, notes Ukraine’s disappointment in the conduct of the American President; Jane Mayer describes how an impeachment scenario in the era of Fox News could play out very differently than it did in the age of Richard Nixon; Jelani Cobb reflects on the likelihood of violence; and Jill Lepore argues that, regardless of the outcome, impeachment is the only constitutional response to Donald Trump’s actions. “This is the Presidential equivalent of shooting someone on Fifth Avenue,” she tells Remnick.
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| 1:11.7 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with a group of |
| 1:17.9 | New Yorker staff writers about the future of impeachment proceedings against President Trump. |
| 1:26.6 | No modern president has ever been convicted on impeachment charges. |
| 1:31.0 | Richard Nixon resigned before the vote ever took place. |
| 1:34.3 | Bill Clinton was impeached, but he was acquitted in the Senate, and his popularity went up. |
| 1:39.8 | What will happen with this wildly unpredictable presidency, the Trump presidency, is pure |
| 1:45.4 | conjecture. |
| 1:46.7 | Every day brings a new revelation, a new turn. |
| 1:50.5 | There are so many big questions about what's going on right now, and we're going to tackle |
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