You! This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Isaac Dauver. Twenty Democratic candidates meet to debate this week, 10 on Wednesday, 10 more on Thursday,

all of them vying for the chance to face off against Donald Trump.

But there's someone already running against Trump. One lone challenger in the Republican primary,

former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld.

Weld is a vocal critic of President Trump,

and one of the rare Republicans calling for impeachment, and also actually for him to resign.

And, it should be said, Weld is uniquely qualified on the topic.

He began his career in politics as one of the first lawyers hired on the committee that was investigating

Watergate for the House.

We sat down to talk history, the state of the Republican Party, and how he thinks he can actually

make waves in the primary.

Take a listen. So Governor can we start with, I guess it was your

first job was when you were working for the impeachment inquiry for Richard Nixon?

You were the Associate Counsel then?

Associate Minority Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee,

which decided to conduct the impeachment inquiry.

And how did you end up there?

It was a, you know, a caram shot, a congressman Tom Railsback from Illinois called up somebody

I knew in Boston and said they were looking for reasonable Republicans to come work on the minority

staff and so I was nominated as that.

How did you establish your reputation as a reasonable Republican?

You know the guy who called me was a state representative named Marty Linsky, who later joined

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