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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

This Week in Impeachment: Are We There Yet?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 30 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. 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 in impeachment.

0:07.0

Here's something I did not expect to be talking about this week.

0:11.2

New evidence.

0:12.2

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.

0:19.4

If you think what you see already is really bad, this is another piece of it that's really

0:22.6

bad.

0:23.6

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 second hand, third hand, fourth hand witnesses.

0:35.8

I mean, he is the closest thing to a first hand witness that they have.

0:45.9

All right, Jim Nuel, Dolly Lithwick, impeachment's over, right?

0:49.3

Are we there yet?

0:50.3

It is amazingly enough, apparently over at least in the Intel committee.

0:57.4

I mean, the public phase of it.

0:58.8

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.

1:08.3

Okay.

1:09.3

Before we go on, brief summary of where we're at.

1:11.6

The House is in the middle of this impeachment inquiry.

1:14.5

When I say middle, middle end, Democrats are trying to prove that the president was urging

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