What Would It Take to Impeach Trump?
The Inquiry
BBC
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ever since Donald Trump took office in 2016 his critics have been focussed on getting rid of him. As the Mueller probe into Russian collusion in the presidential election heads into its last six months, several members of President Trump’s inner circle have been convicted of serious crimes. For some, it’s only a matter of time before Trump himself is implicated. For others, the evidence so far is simply not substantial enough.
With Democrats now in control of Congress, the votes are there to impeach Trump and send him for trial in the Senate. But what would it take to get the two thirds majority needed to remove him from office?
Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Victoria Uwonkunda
(Photo: Protesters outside of the Fox News Channel headquarters demand the resignation of President Donald Trump. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me Victoria Wunghonda. |
| 0:09.8 | Each week one question, four expert witnesses and an answer. |
| 0:20.0 | It's summer 2018 and it's heating up in more ways than one. U.S. President Donald Trump |
| 0:26.1 | and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are meeting at a summit in Helsinki, |
| 0:31.2 | Finland. Russia is under US sanctions and Russian |
| 0:35.6 | Operatives stand accused of interfering to get Trump elected. Trump and Putin have a two hour long private session without any aids, just the interpreters. |
| 0:54.9 | At the press conference afterwards, everything is very friendly. |
| 0:59.2 | When asked whether he had spoken to President Putin about the role Russia might have played in the |
| 1:04.7 | U.S election, President Trump responds with this. |
| 1:08.7 | President Putin, he just said it's not Russia. I will this I don't see any reason why it would be |
| 1:16.7 | the minute these words were uttered the growing clamor to impeach Trump grew louder. |
| 1:28.0 | Betting companies slashed the odds of impeachment already high after months of speculation and investigation |
| 1:32.0 | into alleged collusion between Trump's campaign team and the Russians. |
| 1:37.8 | Many started to wonder did this statement provide yet more evidence of an impeachable offense. |
| 1:45.1 | That speculation has only grown in the last few months. |
| 1:48.6 | So this week we ask, what would it take to impeach President Trump? |
| 1:54.0 | Part 1, the case against. |
| 2:05.0 | So it's funny, I forget we I think are inundated by the news on all these folks and so we're definitely living it day to day and I forget that |
| 2:13.8 | some folks in the world are fortunately not in that same position. |
| 2:19.4 | This is Anne Milgram, our first expert witness. |
| 2:24.0 | She's a professor of law at New York University. |
| 2:27.0 | She's going to help us make sense of the charges and the cast of characters involved in the investigations into Donald Trump. |
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