This Week in Impeachment: Are We There Yet?
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🗓️ 23 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With two weeks of public impeachment hearings in the books, how will the next phase of the inquiry take shape?
Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics writer at Slate. Dahlia Lithwick, writes about the courts and the law for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously in impeachment. |
| 0:07.4 | Here's something I did not expect to be talking about this week. |
| 0:11.1 | New evidence. |
| 0:12.4 | A phone call between the president and his ambassador to the EU raised eyebrows. |
| 0:16.9 | I mean, I think it's really bad. |
| 0:19.1 | If you think what you see already is really bad, this is another piece of it that's really bad. |
| 0:23.3 | Which meant this week, Democrats and Republicans wanted to hear from Gordon Sondland. |
| 0:29.1 | I think that's really going to be a turning point. |
| 0:31.8 | For all this talk about, you know, secondhand, third hand, fourth hand witnesses, I mean, he is the closest thing to a first-hand |
| 0:38.1 | witness that they have. |
| 0:45.5 | All right, Jim Newell, Dahlia Lithwick, impeachment's over, right? Are we there yet? |
| 0:50.2 | It is amazingly enough, apparently over, at least in the Intel Committee. |
| 0:57.5 | I mean, the public phase of it, they're just going to write their report now and hand it off to the Judiciary Committee. |
| 1:03.9 | So it's a little hard to believe. |
| 1:06.3 | I was just getting into it. |
| 1:08.2 | Okay, before we go on, brief summary of where we're at, the House is in the middle of this |
| 1:12.9 | impeachment inquiry when I say middle, middle end. |
| 1:15.9 | Democrats are trying to prove that the president was urging Ukraine to investigate |
| 1:20.0 | his political rival, Joe Biden, and that he may have been withholding military aid to |
| 1:25.7 | make that happen. |
| 1:29.4 | So how many people testify this week? |
| 1:30.7 | Can you even remember, Jim? |
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