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Impeachment, Explained

We are living through history

Impeachment, Explained

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

This will, in all likelihood, be the fourth time a US president is impeached. But it’ll be a devilish story to follow. Already, there are more threads, places, names, and events than even full-time reporters can remember. What’s the role of the EU ambassador? What was Rudy Giuliani doing for Donald Trump in Ukraine? Why is Australia involved? What’s the secret server where the Trump administration stored damaging call records? Why was America involved in firing a Ukrainian prosecutor in the first place? And what does Joe Biden have to do with any of this? Keeping up with the daily revelations, statements, and disputes is difficult enough. But understanding impeachment demands grappling with deeper questions in our political system — questions that don’t get covered in the daily news but will shape the process from here. What did the Founders mean by “high crimes and misdemeanors”? How does an impeachment trial work? Has partisan polarization broken the impeachment process? How do other countries handle impeachment? How does polarized media change the way impeachment will play out? Every Saturday, Vox's founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein will do just that – through deep conversations with Vox reporters and leading policy voices about what’s going on, why it matters, and where it leaves us now. Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Ms. Klein, editor at large of Vox, and I am host of the new show Impeachment Explained, which we're launching on Saturday, October 19th.

0:08.0

We're living through history, and it has these two weird speeds to it.

0:13.0

One is the stuff happening every day and every week.

0:16.0

Like why are they talking about Australia?

0:17.0

And who's this like idiot ambassador to the EU?

0:20.0

And like, how do you make sense of that?

0:22.0

And then on the other hand, impeachment brings up all these slow moving issues

0:25.0

that don't make into the henlines every day.

0:27.0

What is a high crime and misdemeanor?

0:29.0

Like what did the founders mean when they wrote that?

0:30.0

How is partisan polarization playing in?

0:32.0

And so we're going to try to put

0:33.6

together a show here that's going to hit both of these in their own way talking to

0:37.1

some Vox journalists who are covering this and making sense out of what

0:40.1

happened that week then also using back half of the show to talk with an

0:44.2

expert, somebody's been studying this, somebody who has an angle on it.

0:47.3

The show begins, again, October 19th on Saturday, and it'll come out every Saturday

0:51.0

after that, so please subscribe in Apple Podcasts so you don't miss an episode.

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