Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday January 13th, 2021.

I'm John Pupport. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A Greenwald Hyade. Hi John. Associate editor, Norah Rothman, Hinoa.

Hi John. And senior writer Christine Rosemite Christine. Hi John. So at some point today,

Donald Trump will be impeached for the second time. He making him the only president to have been

impeached twice. unclear what happens after this. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house,

could in theory somehow put the impeachment in her pocket and not transmitted to the Senate to lead

to a trial. This is putting the incoming Biden administration and incoming Senate majority leader

Chuck Schumer who will only become majority leader I believe on the 20th when when Kamala Harris

is sworn in as the vice president of the United States to break the tie. So Mitch McConnell is

in charge till then, but the Senate can only meet if 100 senators agree to meet before the 19th

of January. And so there would have to be an impeachment trial on the day before.

One day impeachment trial on the day before the inauguration of the new president. So,

you know, all of this seems like a muck and a mess. And as I said yesterday, this is why when I

wrote in favor of impeachment and removal on the day of the riot on the 6th of January,

that it needed to be done the following day or impeachment needed to be done the following day.

So that there could be a trial in the following week. And so now just like everything else

in Washington, however, this is going to be done. It's going to be done as badly as possible

in a way that introduces that mucks everything up and removes whatever clarity might be provided by

the impeachment itself. So this is I think very unfortunate nonetheless. It still needs to

happen for the reasons that we have been outlining, I believe, which is that the reason, you know,

the main reason is that HAA, a president needs to be established that this barn door to

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