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This Week In Impeachment: A ‘Bullet Proof’ President

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, Senate Republicans blocked efforts to hear new witnesses and evidence in the impeachment trial of President Trump. The decision signals an unwillingness to challenge the executive branch, despite several Republican lawmakers conceding that Trump was wrong to launch a pressure campaign against Ukraine. And even though the Senate trial is drawing to a close, we may be headed for unending impeachment-related investigations. Guest: Dahlia Lithwick writes about law and the courts for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously on impeachment.

0:05.8

The president's Senate trial started with a familiar cast of characters telling familiar

0:10.4

stories.

0:11.4

I'm really reluctant to say it's boring.

0:17.7

The real question was whether this production would actually be a trial.

0:23.6

It's partly super boring because they won't allow any new evidence or witnesses to come

0:28.8

in that would make it interesting.

0:31.5

And Dahlia made a prediction.

0:33.5

I think at the end of the day this will rise and fall on four Republican senators as of

0:40.0

this taping I think that it is and has always been Mitch McConnell's Merit Girl in Play.

0:46.1

I got the votes.

0:47.1

You don't suck it.

0:54.6

Dahlia with Wicke I think this might be our last impeachment update.

1:00.8

I'm trying to muster up sad face for you and just my face is frozen in horror.

1:06.8

It's like a rictus and so I cannot do any emotion.

1:10.2

I am both happy and sad at that news, but my face looks like the screen.

1:14.4

Yeah, I want to say something which is our music or impeachment music is like this

1:19.0

is a jaunty, funny music and that's intentional because we want people to pay attention and

1:25.3

think about this as something to pay attention to even when it gets very weedy.

1:32.7

But I'm not feeling especially jaunty right now.

1:35.0

Like I'm feeling kind of bummed.

1:38.4

If this had had any kind of conclusion, Mary, that we could all say like well that was

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