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Today, Explained

The people behind the insurrection

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has been impeached for inciting an insurrection on the Capitol one week ago. CNN’s Elle Reeve was there and explains who was duped into mobbing the government. Plus, Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe reports on how the government plans to prevent another mob from wreaking havoc. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The outgoing president made history today by becoming the first ever president of the

1:11.9

United States to be impeached twice, let alone in one term. He now owns half of all the

1:18.5

impeachments in history in the United States. Donald Trump was impeached by 222 Democrats

1:25.3

and 10 Republicans for inciting an insurrection on the very building in which they govern. The

1:31.3

United States Capitol one week ago. I can't believe it's already been a week when you

1:36.2

said that. Wow.

1:39.0

Ellie Reeve was out there at the insurrection covering it for CNN, which didn't make her

1:43.5

the most popular person in town. It's dust. Everyone's walking home. The terrorist has

1:48.1

been cleared. And this woman with a bullhorn is like telling us how we should be ashamed

1:53.8

and stuff. And she does manage to get a bunch of people to circle around us. And we got

2:00.0

cleared by our bosses to go home and start editing. And as we're walking down Pennsylvania

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