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1799 episodes transcribedAt the end of a busy week in American politics, seven Democrats took the stage in New Hampshire ahead of the state's Tuesday primary.Each candidate ma...
The impeachment trial is over, but there are still hard feelings between President Trump and Democratic leadership. Those tensions were on display tod...
Senators voted mostly along party lines this afternoon to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment. The White House called President Trum...
It was a highly partisan event. Trump touted his own accomplishments on issues like the economy and paid family leave, lowering the cost of health car...
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., is neck and neck with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses, according to a partial r...
As problems with a mobile app through which vote tallies were transmitted electronically caused a delay in the reporting of Iowa caucus results on Mon...
The White House legal team and House managers made their closing arguments today in the Senate impeachment trial. With an acquittal looking almost cer...
In this special episode of the NPR Politics Podcast, Scott Detrow travels to candidate events around the state of Iowa days and speaks with our campai...
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, IA on Friday, January 31. The cast breaks down ev...
The Senate adjourned for the weekend, but the impeachment trial of President Trump is not over. Senators voted not to hear from new witnesses on Frida...
Close to a vote on whether to include witnesses, the White House legal team continued to defend its argument that the president sometimes has authorit...
The point was made by Alan Dershowitz, one of the president's attorneys: "If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in...
President Trump's impeachment defense team concluded their arguments with time to spare Tuesday. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said the two artic...
As President Trump's legal team continues their case for acquittal, a report in The New York Times about an alleged conversation between Trump and Bol...
President Trump "did absolutely nothing wrong," White House counsel Pat Cipollone said Saturday, as lawyers representing the president got their first...
Democratic impeachment managers conclude their opening arguments Friday night in the Senate Impeachment trial. The president's defense team begins the...
On the second day of their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial, Democratic managers honed their case. They hope to persuade a narrow ban...
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey on Wednesday, January 22nd. As part of Drew...
As the third presidential impeachment trial in the country's history got underway, there was a lot that sounded familiar.House impeachment managers, l...
The first full day of the Trump impeachment trial has been dominated by partisan fighting over the rules of the proceedings.Senate Majority Leader Mit...
