Weekly Roundup: January 8th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and justice correspondent Ryan Lucas.
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| 0:00.0 | Here they're it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the Biden transition. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. And I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. |
| 0:11.1 | House Democrats are holding a call this afternoon to discuss possibly impeaching President Trump. |
| 0:17.0 | It is now very possible that Donald Trump could become the first president in history |
| 0:21.6 | to be impeached a second time. It comes as the president finally issued some |
| 0:26.8 | version of a concession last night, 61 days after it became clear that Joe Biden had won the election. |
| 0:32.8 | And of course, after President Trump had encouraged what happened at Capitol Hill on Wednesday. |
| 0:38.0 | And new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, |
| 0:44.7 | orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. |
| 0:52.0 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had first urged |
| 0:56.0 | vice president Pence and the cabinet to use the 25th amendment to remove President Trump from |
| 1:01.1 | power. They said impeachment was an option if that didn't happen. So before we walk through |
| 1:06.0 | all these impeachment angles, Tam, despite a lot of resignations, despite a lot of distancing, |
| 1:12.2 | there seem to be no signs that invoking the 25th is a real possibility, right? |
| 1:16.5 | Right. Lots of people leaving the administration with two weeks left to repair their reputations |
| 1:22.2 | or something. But no indication at all that they are moving in the direction of the 25th amendment. |
| 1:29.1 | And I've not been able to confirm this reporting, but there is some reporting that vice president |
| 1:34.1 | Pence opposes the idea. Clearly, he is not taking visible action in that direction. And as I |
| 1:41.8 | understand it, basically didn't answer the call when Pelosi and Schumer called to talk to him about it. |
| 1:46.8 | So Sue, that leaves us with impeachment then. Can we really with 12 days to go? Possibly see the |
| 1:53.6 | president impeached for a second time? It's entirely possible. House Democrats are already circulating |
| 1:59.7 | an impeachment resolution. Nancy Pelosi has been really clear that it is the, in her words, |
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