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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.

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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.

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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.

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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]!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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