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🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Laura McGahn, politics editor here at Vox. I was wondering if you could help me with some scenarios. |
0:12.1 | Sure. |
0:12.9 | So I think we all know how this impeachment story begins. |
0:17.5 | Press reports began to break of a phone call by the president of the United States, |
0:22.5 | calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. |
0:27.3 | This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. |
0:31.1 | But I'm wondering, as I think many people out there might be, how it could end? |
0:36.6 | How many scenarios would you say we even have here? |
0:39.8 | Okay, get ready for it. I gave this some thought and we're looking at nine. |
0:45.0 | Nine scenarios. |
0:46.1 | Yes. |
0:46.8 | Yes. |
0:47.2 | Oh my gosh. |
0:48.0 | Well, so I guess to go through them all, we should start with no impeachment at all. |
0:52.4 | Is that scenario one? |
0:53.6 | Yes. Let's start there. So scenario one is in the house where they're holding their inquiry |
1:00.6 | into Donald Trump. They decide, you know what? |
1:03.6 | We're not going to hold a vote. We're not going to vote to impeach him and things go back to what |
1:08.9 | pass for normal in our current age of American politics. |
1:13.5 | Is that a real possibility here after this point, after Nancy Pelosi was sort of pressured into |
1:19.3 | going this route in the first place? |
1:21.2 | I think this looks pretty unlikely at this point because Democrats have gotten on board |
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