You! The chair recognizes Mr. Madger Shabbitt.

I'm Steve Shabbitt.

I'm Steve Shabbitt and I represent the first district of Ohio, which is Cincinnati.

This week we will likely finally conclude this trial.

Has it been difficult?

Yes.

Would we all have preferred that none of this ever happened? Of course. But the

president has put our nation through a terrible ordeal and it has been our duty to

pursue this case to its conclusion.

That's Congressman Steve Chavitt in February 1999.

He's standing before the Senate making the House Republicans case

in the impeachment trial of President Clinton.

As a lawyer and a member of the House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment trial of President Clinton.

As a lawyer and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Shabbit had been selected, along

with 12 of his colleagues, to be what are called impeachment managers, basically the House prosecutors for the Senate trial.

Shabbitt came of age during Watergate. He tried President Clinton in the 1990s,

and now, as one of only two Clinton impeachment managers still in the House, he's in a unique

position to reflect on the third impeachment proceeding in his lifetime.

I'm Isaac Dauver.

This week on Radio Atlantic, I sat down with Congressman Chabot in his office on Capitol Hill.

On Wednesday, the day before we spoke, the House Judiciary Committee opened debate on two articles

of impeachment against President Trump.

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