Too Sick To Lead. With Guest Richard North Patterson

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is Trump too sick lead? And how do we recover from his illness? Michael Steele and Richard North Patterson make the diagnosis. Richard North Patterson is a lawyer, political commentator and best-selling novelist. He is a former chairman of Common Cause, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative, a bipartisan group dedicated to defending the principles of liberal democracy at home and abroad. He’s the author of The Spire, Eclipse and fourteen other bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, he was the SEC liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor.

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0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the Michael Steel Podcast.
0:42.5	I'm Michael Steel, such a pleasure having you on the ride with us as the holiday season
0:47.6	is getting underway and people are having visions of sugar plums dancing their heads.
0:54.0	Well the president has got an impeachment award in his hands, yes.
1:01.1	The House has impeached the president or at least the beginning, the efforts towards
1:05.4	impeaching the president with some very stark remarks by Representative Nadler.
1:11.6	Listen, listen real quick folks, just so we can set the stage for we get in our conversation
1:15.1	exactly how all this is sounding and how all this is feeling as we begin this process.
1:23.2	Today in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, the House Committee on
1:29.8	the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the President of the
1:34.6	United States, Donald J. Trump, with committing high crimes and misdemeanors.
1:41.7	The first article is for abuse of power.
1:45.7	It is an impeachable offense for the President to exercise the powers of his public office
1:52.4	to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest.
2:01.2	That is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere
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