This Week In Impeachment: Let's Make It Official, Again

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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. 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	Quick warning that we swear, just a weeny, tiny bit in this episode.
0:10.2	Previously in impeachment.
0:14.5	The testimony in Washington had all started to point in one direction.
0:19.1	If someone wants something, you have to get something in return.
0:22.0	It's like a sort of like a quid. What is it? Quid Pro Quot, yeah.
0:26.0	Yeah. We now have Saundlan. We have Taylor.
0:29.6	We have Giuliani. We have Movaney. All saying there was a quid pro quo.
0:35.0	But with the evidence piling up, Republicans wanted to fight about something else.
0:39.7	If you can't win on the facts, fight about the process.
0:42.8	And it's clearly this is just an attempt to say it's unfair. It's unfair.
0:47.7	And you're like, what is unfair? Like, where is the injustice here?
0:50.8	Dahlia Lithwick, Jim Nuel. Welcome back.
0:56.8	Hi.
0:58.0	Hey.
0:58.8	It's like the most muted response.
1:01.8	Hello.
1:03.0	We've we've
1:04.5	We've toggled from despair to exhaustion.
1:07.7	Yes.
1:08.5	Yes.
1:09.0	Do you feel like this is the week that it turned?
1:11.0	It's the week that something shifted.
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