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Why Nancy Pelosi is reluctant to impeach the president

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Rachael Bade on the impeachment divide among Democrats. Loveday Morris reports on why Israel will hold a second parliamentary election. Plus, Brady Dennis explains why dead puffins in Alaska may be a harbinger for climate change.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:05.0

Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Colley from the Post.

0:08.0

I'm a guest from President from PowerU.

0:10.0

Hi, it's Robert Given, at the Washington Post.

0:14.0

This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.

0:18.0

It's Thursday, May 30th.

0:21.0

Today, Nancy Pelosi's calculus on impeachment.

0:26.0

White Israel is holding new elections

0:29.0

and a mystery washing up on the shores of Alaska.

0:36.0

So on Wednesday, Robert Mueller gave his first

0:39.0

and possibly last public statement about his investigation

0:43.0

into the president's campaign.

0:45.0

Once it was over, what were you thinking?

0:48.0

I was thinking, oh boy, here we go again.

0:51.0

The latest impeachment push is going to start five minutes ago.

0:56.0

Rachel Bade covers Congress for the Post.

0:59.0

And sure enough, it did.

1:01.0

I think it's a fair inference from what we heard in that press conference

1:04.0

that Bob Mueller was essentially referring impeachment to the United States Congress.

1:09.0

A number of Democrats came out just after Mueller went to the mic

1:12.0

and made his statement and said it is time to begin impeachment.

1:16.0

I mean, dear God, this guy cannot in any way be allowed to be above the wall.

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