This Week In Impeachment: Let's Make It Official, Again
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alexander Vindman testified with firsthand knowledge of the Ukraine call and the House voted to formalize the impeachment inquiry. Plus, who’s the person you should be keeping your eye on heading into next week?
Guest: Dahlia Lithwick and Jim Newell.
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| 0:00.0 | Quick warning that we swear, just a weeny, tiny bit in this episode. |
| 0:10.2 | Previously in impeachment. |
| 0:14.3 | The testimony in Washington had all started to point in one direction. |
| 0:19.2 | If someone wants something, you have to get something in return. |
| 0:22.3 | It's sort of like a quid, what is it? |
| 0:25.0 | Quid pro quo, yeah. |
| 0:26.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:26.9 | We now have Sondland. |
| 0:28.3 | We have Taylor. |
| 0:29.7 | We have Giuliani. |
| 0:31.0 | We have Mulvaney. |
| 0:32.5 | All saying there was a quid pro quo. |
| 0:35.1 | But with the evidence piling up, Republicans wanted to fight about something else. |
| 0:39.8 | If you can't win on the facts, fight about the process. |
| 0:42.9 | And it's clearly this is just an attempt to say it's unfair, it's unfair. |
| 0:47.9 | And you're like, what is unfair? |
| 0:49.1 | Like, where is the injustice here? |
| 0:53.7 | Dahlia Lithwick, Jim Newell, welcome back. |
| 0:57.9 | Hi. |
| 0:58.9 | Hey. |
| 1:00.0 | It's like the most muted response. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello. |
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