Trump's Second Impeachment Will Be Bipartisan

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In a nearly party-line vote, the House encouraged Mike Pence and the presidential cabinet to sideline the president via the 25th amendment. Pence said no. Now, the House will move to impeach Trump over "incitement of insurrection" in what is expected to be a bipartisan vote. The Senate may be warming to the idea of removal.

This episode: political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.1	I'm Danielle Kurtz-Labin.
0:07.2	I cover politics.
0:08.2	I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress.
0:10.4	And I'm Dominica Montenora, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:13.7	It is 11.52 pm on January 12th.
0:17.0	Edited is our second podcast of the day.
0:20.1	We've had a lot of news today, so let's get right to why we are here so late at night.
0:25.4	We are talking about the 25th Amendment.
0:27.4	Vice President Mike Pence said in a letter to top house Democrat Nancy Pelosi two nights
0:32.9	that he will not be invoking the 25th Amendment to sideline President Trump in the final
0:37.5	days of his term.
0:38.8	This is something that House Democrats very much want.
0:41.8	So let's get started with you, Dominica.
0:43.7	Tell us about this letter.
0:45.0	What was Mike Pence's reasoning for not supporting this?
0:48.0	Well, what Pence said in his letter is that with just eight days left in the president's
0:52.3	term, he said, I don't believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of
0:57.2	our nation or consistent with the Constitution.
1:00.4	He kind of dismissed the effort.
1:01.8	He said, as quote unquote, political games.
1:04.8	And you know, look, Pence has said that he's done what he needs to do as far as the Constitution
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