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Joe Biden is at the center of Donald Trump’s whole Ukraine scheme. He’s been in the middle of the mess before we even knew there was a mess. Now, he’s polling as the frontrunner to be the Democratic candidate. We discuss how the impeachment circus revolves around him. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mick Mulvaney has a million jobs in the Trump administration. If the Democrats had it their way, he’d have a million and one: they badly want him as a witness for the Senate trial. What’s Mulvaney’s importance? Our DC Bureau chief Kate Nocera guides us through it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just when you think he’s out… former national security adviser John Bolton said if subpoenaed, he’ll testify in the Senate trial of President Trump. This is a pretty big deal. Plus: Chief Justice John Roberts will be running the show during the trial — here’s what you should know about him. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The impeachment trial is still on hold as Nancy Pelosi refuses to transmit the impeachment articles. Meanwhile, the whole impeachment process bumps up against the Iran news cycle. Plus: we dive in to what you need to know about Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate and Trump’s biggest ally in the upcoming trial. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So you want to see a Senate trial. How does that even work? Paul McLeod is here to explain how these trials normally go down, and what we know and don’t know about the process. Also, we want to hear you 2020 impeachment predictions - record a voice memo saying what YOU think will happen, and send it to [email protected]! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before the holiday break, Donald J. Trump became just the third president in history to be impeached. Now we're back, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is still refusing to take the next step to get the impeachment trial started in the Senate. Let’s catch up on how we got to this standoff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You always go to intermission with a showstopper. In this case: President Trump has been impeached. What’s in the second act? A trial awaits after the holiday break. We look at what’s to come, and the woman of the hour, Nancy Pelosi, in our last episode of 2019 - more to come in 2020! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The House voted to approve two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him just the third president in history to be impeached. Now, ahead of his trial in the Senate, we look back at the last time this happened, when Bill Clinton was charged with lying under oath. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the House prepares to debate two articles of impeachment against the president, we hop in the time machine. The second time the US impeached a president, it was Richard Nixon. And we all know how that turned out — except we don’t. Princeton history prof Kevin Kruse gives us the tour. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re about 24 hours away from the House bringing impeachment articles to a vote. So we look back on the first time the US impeached a president — Andrew Johnson, back in 1868. Brenda Wineapple, who literally wrote the book on this, joins us. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before the House makes history by voting on Trump’s impeachment, let’s go back in history to discuss how the framers of the Constitution thought about impeachment. Yale History Prof. Joanne Freeman guides us through the journey. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Around impeachment in 80 days! Today, it’s been 80 days since the impeachment inquiry launched. Plus: How other countries get rid of their leaders (legally, like, with the law). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we take a look at two side characters in the impeachment saga: lawyers Joseph Digenova and Victoria Toensing. They’re a married couple, regular Fox News contributors, and worked closely with Giuliani while he was digging for dirt in Ukraine. Read more about them here: http://bit.ly/Toensing-Digenova, and read more from guest Miriam Elder on oligarch Dmytro Firtash here: http://bit.ly/BuzzFeedNews-Firtash Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Democrats released the articles of impeachment against President Trump, and folks, they are a doozy. We translate them into normal-people talk. This sets the foundation for the coming political theater. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

T’was the lead up to impeachment, and all through the House… everyone was scurrying? It’s the final cases for and against impeachment. It was, depending on your point of view, a recap of everything we’ve gone through — OR a preview of Trump’s inevitable trial in the Senate. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rick Perry has come up a lot in the impeachment saga. So how has he managed to stay out of the spotlight? Plus: a guide through the House Judiciary Committee’s 50-page report on how to frame the presumably forthcoming articles of impeachment. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we’re taking a close look at who is NOT talking: all the people who work for Trump who have refused to testify before Congress, citing various legal rationale for ducking subpoenas. All the ones who do not dare disturb the sound of silence. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad to tell your version of the story. We discuss how Fox News’ coverage of impeachment is shaping its viewers’ understanding of what Trump did or didn’t do. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The House Intelligence Committee dropped their 300-page report and spoiler: they said Trump did the thing Democrats are accusing him of. We guide you through the report’s bombshells. Plus: Now as the time draws near for Congress to draw the articles of impeachment, we explain what that entails, exactly. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All eyes now turn to Jerry Nadler, the chair of the Judiciary Committee in the House — it’s his committee’s role to decide what they’re going to do with all the evidence collected in the public impeachment hearings. Congressional reporter Kadia Goba fills us in on Nadler and his approach. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, it’s been sixty-nine days (nice) since the House began it’s impeachment inquiry. The report into what the inquiry learned is wrapping up and we’re getting ready to move to the next phase of the process. Seems like a good time to check in with BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith about how the politics of impeachment are playing out so far. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dreading talking impeachment at the dinner table? Well so is BuzzFeed News reporter Ryan Broderick, but he’s here to explain all the conspiracy theories spreading in right-wing media – and help you prepare what to say when Uncle Steve brings up CrowdStrike over the stuffing. Also read more of Ryan's reporting on impeachment conspiracy theories: http://bit.ly/BroderickConspiracy Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While the US is caught up in the impeachment madness, in Ukraine the military aid that Trump suspended is not just a thing of political intrigue — there were serious consequences to it not arriving as expected. We asked Chris Miller to give us the lay of the land.Read more from Chris about the ongoing war in Ukraine: http://bit.ly/2DjXgHM Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Mick Mulvaney asking around to find justifications for withholding aid from Ukraine, to Rep. Jim Jordan, Trump’s biggest defender, we get into the people who say things so the president doesn’t have to. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look at that. We made it. We made it through the impeachment hearings. Now there’s only the whole rest of the impeachment process to go. Gather ‘round, let’s take a look at where we are and how we got here with Fiona Hill and David Holmes testifying. And here’s the link to the TinyHands font as promised: http://bit.ly/2pIp5qe Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gordon Sondland said it and said it again: yes, there was a Trump quid pro quo. Except this time, he said in front of the world. He directly implicated the president, too, saying he pressed Ukraine “at the express direction” of Trump. We get into the aftermath of this explosive testimony. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you weren’t able to catch all bajillion hours of testimony on Tuesday, we’ve got you covered. Four key witnesses were up today: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Jennifer Williams, Kurt Volker, and Tim Morrison. We take you through the bits you need to know — and there were many. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More testimony is underway as the third round of impeachment hearings kick-off and Democrats keep adding new witnesses to the list for this week’s marathon of testimony. And we talk to Politico’s Natasha Bertrand about Dr. Fiona Hill, the Russia expert turned Trump White House survivor who now has a tale to tell to Congress. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week: three hearings on deck, so it's gonna get busy. Also, we get the full story on the 2017 Politico article Republicans keep referencing to help shape their defense of Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: it's not quite as straightforward as they say it is.Read the Politico story discussed in this episode: https://politi.co/2KKkvz9 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Friday hearings mean you get a bonus drop to keep you up to speed! And Marie Yovanovitch has quite the story to tell, so come hear what she told the House Intelligence Committee. Oh also: the White House released another Trump call transcript and it totally exonerated him. (jk, it actually undercut a Republican talking point.) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pundits and politicians alike have been staring at polls about impeachment like they’re a crystal ball with a magic connection to The People’s mood. HuffPost’s Polling Editor Ariel Edwards-Levy tells us why that’s not really how we should think about these things. Meanwhile, Speaker Pelosi basically says “Tired: quid pro quo. Wired: Bribery.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Five and a half hours of testimony later, that’s one impeachment hearing down and at least four more to go. Ambassador Bill Taylor dropped a new bombshell of testimony and State Department official George Kent laid out the facts for all of us at home. And Addy Baid gives us a rundown of the vibe on Capitol Hill. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s day one of the public impeachment hearings, and we are only a little amped about it! Bill Taylor is up today, and his testimony is key in telling the impeachment story. We’ll get into why he matters a lot. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the eve of the first public hearings of the 2019 impeachment, our host Hayes Brown reads what we can only assume will be an instant seasonal classic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When impeachment hearings start up, all eyes will be on the guy with the gavel: Adam Schiff. He’s chair of the House Intelligence Committee and from the days of the Russia investigation, he’s been the man who’s been annoying Trump the most in Congress. Emma Loop is on to talk to us about Schiff and his biggest challenge yet. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One started a company called Fraud Guarantee. The other mortgaged a million dollar house to fund their ALLEGED hijinks. Together they were all up in Ukraine’s business on Rudy Giuliani’s behalf — ALLEGEDLY. Mike Sallah tells a tale that could only happen in South Florida about two guys at the heart of impeachment inquiry. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most of the action has been behind closed doors. But brace yourselves, the impeachment inquiry’s public hearings are coming. What do you need to prepare for? Addy Baird helps guide us through phase 2 of the Impeachment Cinematic Universe. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump wanted the attorney general to announce that the president didn't break any laws in his July phone call. Because of course he did. We also break down how Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, went from hotel owner to Trump donor to kind of a big deal for the impeachment case. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, is changing his story, saying he did, in fact, oops, whaddya know, present a quid pro quo to Ukrainian officials. What does that mean for the Nixometer? Plus: a closer look at Marie Yovanovitch's explosive testimony to the impeachment inquiry. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

House Democrats published two transcripts of the dozen or so depositions they've held. Yes, they’re juicy. Also: remember April? Of course you don't. That's when the Mueller report came out. Well, now it's back and could play a role in the impeachment saga. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're all talking about this whole impeachment circus because of one human — The Whistleblower. You know, that enigmatic intelligence official who felt Trump's Ukraine call was sketchy, and reported it. Democrats love to praise whoever it is. Republicans want the person’s identity unmasked. We explain the whistleblower's role in the impeachment story. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

38 days into this thing, might as well make it official! The Democrat-controlled House votes to officially launch an impeachment inquiry. Also, what the hell is Crowdstrike, and how did it get into the president’s brain and into our lives? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are a LOT of names flying around, many of them Ukrainian. Today, we focus in on two key figures: Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko. Both are former top prosecutors in Ukraine, and both key players in the impeachment saga. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We reenact and dive deep on the call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, so we can explain what all the fuss is about. Also, House Republicans won't go after a decorated veteran who flagged Trump's call with Ukraine, even if Fox News will. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks a lot, Founding Fathers. We could’ve used some clarity about this impeachment thing. What do we mean when we ask, “is the president going to get impeached?” We had politics editor Sarah Mimms on to go over what impeachment entails, and what we’re actually doing here. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you had the Ukrainian president on your list of reasons why Trump might get impeached, congrats, you're a wizard. The rest of us didn't see this coming. Who is Voldymyr Zelensky, and is he in over his head? We talk to Chris Miller, who's reporting from Kyiv. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Senate Republicans want to condemn the impeachment inquiry, because of course they do. Hayes sits down with Katherine Miller to talk about Hunter Biden, the large adult son at the heart of this mess. Why is he in the news? Why does he keep coming up? It’s Impeachment Today.Read more Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First, let's piece everything together: what do we know for sure? How did a July call between Trump and Ukraine's president snowball into a full-blown impeachment inquiry?Then, the question of the day: has Rudy Giuliani always been this shady? Our editor-in-chief Ben Smith is here to talk about Giuliani's road to the middle of this mess. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get it — it’s easy to get lost in the impeachment circus, because every day brings a whole bunch of headlines. But listen — this whole thing is a big deal (really). We’re living through history here, and the stories matter a lot. In Impeachment Today, Hayes Brown takes 10-15 minutes to talk you through what you need to know and why the stakes are so high. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.