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This Week In Impeachment: “Presidents Are Not Kings”

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

For months, White House lawyers have argued that many of the president’s aides can sidestep congressional subpoenas because of their proximity to Trump. This week, a judge rejected that claim, setting the stage for another installment in the House of Representatives’s impeachment inquiry.  Guest: Jeremy Stahl, Slate senior editor 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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Previously, an impeachment.

0:36.0

So how many people testify this week? Can you even remember Jim?

0:42.0

It was somewhere between 4 and 700. I think it was 9.

0:48.0

Nine witnesses, three days, and each and every one of these people.

0:53.0

They were saying the same thing to really understand this impeachment story.

0:57.0

You've got to talk to my boss.

0:59.0

Including Saunland, right? I mean, the one thing the gift that Saunland did give was

1:04.0

you should probably talk to Pompeo.

1:06.0

Which is why this week everyone was watching a United States District Court in Washington, DC.

1:16.0

Welcome back. It is another week in impeachment.

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And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you told me last week was the last week of this.

1:27.0

And it was, but then you know how this goes.

1:30.0

Like you make plans and then yada yada yada.

1:32.0

A court is ruling something. And anyway, here we are.

1:36.0

Plus Jeremy Stahl is in town. He is our senior legal editor here at Slate.

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