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🗓️ 17 December 2023
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A Tour of the Big Political Events of 2023
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0:37.2 | Molly Jangfast and Mark Leibovich join me for our third and last in our year in review series. This time we look at the |
0:48.3 | year in politics and a lot of ground to cover there. More stuff happened since Molly and Mark and I recorded |
0:54.7 | this. House Republicans voted unanimously to start an impeachment inquiry |
1:00.4 | on President Biden and of course the inquiry is intended to inquire whether or not |
1:06.9 | there's any reason to impeach President Biden. I guess there's no harm in inquiring but normally of course the impeachment |
1:15.9 | inquiry isn't adopted unless there's some evidence of you know something. Now this of course was Republicans fulfilling the request of a |
1:27.5 | former president Donald Trump who's got a bone to pick because he was impeached |
1:32.0 | twice and the first one was virtually along party lines with two |
1:37.6 | Democrats opposing. That of course was about Trump trying to shakedown |
1:43.6 | Vladimir Zilinski to get the Ukrainian president |
1:47.3 | to say that they were investigating |
1:50.0 | Joe Biden for corruption. In the Senate there was one Republican vote to convict on that one that was Mitt Romney. |
1:58.0 | On the second one, which was about a little thing called the January 6th insurrection. |
2:03.8 | 10 Republicans, only 10 voted to impeach, |
2:07.8 | and two of them are still in Congress. |
2:10.8 | And seven Republicans in the Senate voted to convict, including of course Rami again. |
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