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Trump impeached again – now what? Politics Weekly Extra podcast

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Freedland talks to Noah Feldman, who testified for the Democrats in the president’s first impeachment hearing. They discuss the various consequences for Trump after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him for the second time. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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Welcome to Politics Weekly Extra.

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I'm Jonathan Friedland.

0:45.0

He must go.

0:47.0

He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.

0:52.0

Mr Speaker, I can think of no action the House can take.

0:55.0

It's more likely to further divide the American people

0:59.0

than the action we are contemplating today.

1:02.0

Impeachment, it's meant to be a once in a century event.

1:07.0

For the best part of 200 years, it only ever happened once in the middle of the 19th century

1:12.0

with Andrew Johnson.

1:13.0

Then it happened again with Bill Clinton and that was sort of it,

1:17.0

two in 200 years.

1:20.0

But on Wednesday night, another bit of history was made because the House of Representatives voted

1:27.1

to make Donald Trump the first president in American history to be impeached not once but twice. The difference this time

1:35.8

is it wasn't just Democrats on their own in the House of Representatives. Several

1:40.0

Republicans crossed the floor as it were to vote with them and in effect to prosecute, to

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