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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).

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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