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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next Impeachment: The Tortoise and the Hare

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, in impeachment inquiry news: Gordon Sondland revised his memory, Lev Parnas said he’d cooperate with inquisitors, and Donald Trump, Jr. insisted that we focus on the whistleblower. Guests: Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s courts correspondent, and Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously in impeachment.

0:08.0

When I think about the metaphor of what changes this week, it's like one of those Renaissance

0:13.1

paintings where they paint over and paint over, you know, layers and layers of paint.

0:17.7

And it's amazing how the story doesn't change.

0:21.0

The story is unbelievably consistent.

0:23.8

We have witness after witness just layering over what we originally heard.

0:31.0

But even as New testimony implicated the president, his supporters in Congress stuck with him.

0:36.2

I think this week was actually a little bit of a setback for Democrats who hope that they

0:40.3

can, you know, convince Republicans to come over and quote unquote, do the right thing

0:44.8

just because we had a vote this week where they got zero Republican support, the vote to

0:50.1

open the impeachment inquiry.

0:51.6

Those in favor, please say aye.

0:55.0

Aye.

0:56.7

Those opposed say no.

0:59.1

Aye.

1:00.8

Can you know the chair, the eyes have it.

1:04.5

And some White House insiders signaled that be keeping their mouths shut, at least for

1:09.0

now.

1:10.0

Unless those people can be forced to sit and answer questions, it becomes, well, that

1:17.0

was an interesting little Ukraine scandal.

1:19.2

We enjoyed that in September.

1:20.8

We've moved on.

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