Will Republicans Derail Jerry Nadler?
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🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The next impeachment hearing will be in the House Judiciary Committee, where Corey Lewandowski made a mockery of Democrats in September. So perhaps it’s by design that the testimony planned for Wednesday seems rather low-stakes: Four professors will speak about the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, after weeks of investigation, the Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee released a 300-page report. |
| 0:12.8 | It attempts to tell the story of what went on between President Trump and Ukraine this summer. |
| 0:19.1 | It quotes George Washington, Ben Franklin, sums up more than 100 hours |
| 0:24.2 | of testimony from 17 witnesses. But if you want the Cliff Notes version, the Democrats put that out, |
| 0:31.8 | too. Have you seen the sizzle reel that they put out? |
| 0:37.5 | Everyone was in the loop. |
| 0:40.4 | We followed the president's orders. |
| 0:42.4 | The Democrats, that trailer for impeachment that they put out? |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, it's compelling, wasn't it? |
| 0:47.8 | For your consideration. |
| 0:49.8 | The first words you see on the screen in this video, they read two weeks of testimony, one story of betrayal. |
| 0:59.2 | Slate's Jim Newell. He covers Congress. He says, sure, this may seem a little dweeby. |
| 1:05.1 | But also it does, I guess, distill it into, you know, here's the witnesses, here's the role each played |
| 1:12.3 | with terrifying music and everything. |
| 1:15.1 | And I did say to him, Ambassador Sondland, Gordon, I think this is all going to blow up. |
| 1:19.9 | And here we are. |
| 1:20.7 | I mean, if you weren't sure that what Trump did was bad, maybe the music can tell you that it was bad, |
| 1:25.5 | you know, because it was very frightening. |
| 1:29.2 | This report, this sizzle reel, they signal Congress's impeachment inquiry has moved on to a new stage. |
| 1:37.7 | It does. Yeah. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over impeachment. |
| 1:42.3 | You know, so they just kick most of the investigating work to |
| 1:45.4 | intelligence, but yeah, it does have to go through judiciary now. It's Jerry Nadler who heads |
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