is going to be the effect of those events and god willing we will be in it together because in this country that s all we have. now, bill clinton was in the same boat 21 years ago. we have to look at how he handled it and what difference it made in that process. we have former clinton chief of staff john podesta. he s next. thank you for listening to what i had to say. we re carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we ve created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it s a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno-wizardry calculates your car s value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you re ready, we ll come to you, pay you on the spot, and pick up your car.
budget, the state of the union. we, in fact, had a pretty productive 1999 following the impeachment and the trial in the senate. he prosecuted and reversed the ethnic cleansing going on in kosovo. we ended up with major agreements with the speaker on things like providing health care to people with disabilities so it created a different dynamic. we kept our nose to the grindstone. no politician in a position of power could ignore that. they were going to impeach him anyway. but it wound up making a different in the senate and in the climate of the country. where do you think this current process leads us? he s going to be impeached tomorrow in all likelihood. we don t know how many democrats won t go along with it but it should happen. where does this leave us at the end of the day? nobody really knows. i think you see the leader in the senate, mr. mcconnell saying he s already prejudged the case so he gets acquitted and it s
if people don t know that, it s because people don t care about it at this point so forget it. you made a very different decision on how to handle impeachment with the president. what led to the decision you guys made about how to handle impeachment and messaging of the same and what difference did it make in your situation? well, look, i think we respected the process that we were going through. we didn t think the president should be impeached or removed from office. we fought about that with people on capitol hill but we respected the process. our lawyers participated in the process, witnesses were called, we made the argument and ultimately prevailed. the american people stood with the president. they understood that he was doing a job for them and was spending his time continuing to do that job. that was the key. you guys called it compartmentalization. the president went on an ambitious agenda. unfortunately we had foreign
the washington post /abc poll just showed that 71% of the people think that his top aides should come before the senate. 64% of republicans think they should testify. and i think that s an important as you were noting in your opening, it s important to educate the public about what really happened. the fact that he actually leaned on, extorted, asked for a favor of a foreign leader to interfere in our democracy. and i think that getting those witnesses who were in the room with him who he ordered not to testify before the house is an important function. i think senator schumer s asked for a very limited number of witnesses. i think that s wise. he s asked for similar treatment, a truncated process but a real process and i think the american people want to see a trial. and for mcconnell to say that, well, there shouldn t be any witnesses in the trial.
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