This Week in Impeachment: Obstruct and Distract

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🗓️ 11 October 2019

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As the impeachment inquiry rolls on, it’s easy to get lost in the paperwork and characters surfacing each week. We’re here to help sort through it all and tell you what you really need to know. Today: the White House’s letter to Congress and what it says about the fight that’s only going to heat up on Capitol Hill. Guests: Dahlia Lithwick, who covers the courts and the law at Slate. And Jim Newell, a politics writer at Slate. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers. 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	It's Friday, we are two weeks into an impeachment inquiry.
0:08.0	Here we are, Dahlia Lithwick, Jim Nuel.
0:10.9	How are you guys doing?
0:12.3	It's my crazy laugh.
0:16.5	Just as great as ever.
0:20.9	You hear that apprehension?
0:23.1	That's kind of a you feel about impeachment too, right?
0:25.7	Like how many White House letters am I gonna have to read?
0:28.9	It's one of the worst letters I've seen from the White House Council's office and they
0:31.3	write very well and they make good legal arguments when they trash.
0:35.7	How many more characters am I gonna have to get to know?
0:39.2	And that's what this letter from Pat Sepoloni is.
0:42.7	It is executive poppycock.
0:45.1	Later today a former ambassador to the Ukraine is supposed to testify on Capitol Hill.
0:50.3	We'll see about that.
0:51.3	We're all going to be watching whether former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Ivanovitch shows
0:56.3	out for her deposition if not another subpoena could go out and then next week.
1:00.6	And by the way, Congress isn't even back from recess yet.
1:06.4	This is a lot.
1:08.6	So today on the show, Dahlia Lithwick, Jim Nuel and I are gonna recap this week in impeachment.
1:14.4	We won't go over all the details.
1:16.6	Just the ones that matter.
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