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Inside the Attempts of Congress to Impeach Trump

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

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Rand Paul and Judge Lydig in the Book of Revelations

Judge Lydig, the retired judge who came and made the argument that Paul wants to use to defang the threat, is someone we heard quite a lot about during the January 6th Committee hearings. He has this argument that you can't impeach a former president or even hold an impeached president who has left the office on trial in the Senate. And so it's interesting because we have this reporting in the book that nobody had before about how conflicted McConnell was on that argument. We have scenes in the book about how he sort of argued with his top counsel about whether this argument made any sense. But when push comes to shove in that moment, he follows his party.

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