Impeachment & Empiricism: Harold Meyerson; Report from Haiti: Amy Wilentz

The Senate impeachment trial shows the "ism" the Republicns fear more than socialism or liberalism is empiricism, says Harold Meyerson -- as the Democrats move toward concluding their presentation, and the Republicans refuse to admit evidence or hear witnesses. Also: A Report from Haiti: It’s been ten years since Haiti was devastated by the earthquake that killed more than a hundred thousand people. Amy Wilentz, who has been reporting on Haiti for three decades, returned to the island and found the country oddly calm, despite deepening poverty, violence, and corruption. She also found “little sprouts of possibility everywhere.”