What Will Democrats Do With Their New Power?

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Democrats have waited two years for a chance to investigate President Trump on their own terms. Starting tomorrow, they can. We look at how they plan to use — and not use — that power. Guest: Jason Zengerle, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:32.6	This is the day.
0:35.6	Today, Democrats have waited two years for a chance to investigate President Trump on their
0:47.9	own terms.
0:49.2	Starting tomorrow, they can't.
0:52.4	Jason Zengol, on how they plan to use and not use that power.
0:59.4	It's Wednesday, January 2nd.
1:08.4	Okay.
1:09.4	Here we go.
1:10.4	Jason Zengol, lay out for me what we can expect to happen tomorrow, January 3rd.
1:15.6	So at noon, Congress will convene the new Congress and 435 members of the House of Representatives
1:22.2	will gather in the chamber for the first time.
1:25.5	And it's a day of a lot of pomp and circumstance.
1:27.8	The chaplain gives a prayer, the clerk leads the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance, and
1:32.6	then there's a roll call vote held to elect a new speaker.
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