46 min listen
Trump's Turnberry resort and a zombie impeachment memo
Trump's Turnberry resort and a zombie impeachment memo
ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Nerdcast sits down with Politico's Natasha Bertrand and Ben
Shreckinger to find out what's going on at Turnberry, President Trump's
luxury golf resort in Scotland where the U.S. Air Force has lodged its
crews.
Plus, Darren Samuelsohn tells the story of a "zombie" congressional
impeachment memo: one that Hillary Clinton helped craft in 1974, was
used 20 years later as a blueprint in impeachment proceedings against
President Clinton and today has new life breathed into it during
impeachment discussions.
Shreckinger to find out what's going on at Turnberry, President Trump's
luxury golf resort in Scotland where the U.S. Air Force has lodged its
crews.
Plus, Darren Samuelsohn tells the story of a "zombie" congressional
impeachment memo: one that Hillary Clinton helped craft in 1974, was
used 20 years later as a blueprint in impeachment proceedings against
President Clinton and today has new life breathed into it during
impeachment discussions.
Released:
Sep 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
More Episodes from Playbook Deep Dive
Rep. Jerry Nadler opposed the House antisemitism bill. Here's why: Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has represented a big piece of Manhattan since 1992, is one of the longest-serving Jewish members of the House. He’s also a Columbia University alumnus: he was on campus in 1968 when police cleared Hamilton Hall of anti-Vietnam war protesters. Nadler is a close observer of the Middle East and the politics of Israel in the U.S. And he’s the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, where he’s long seen himself as a champion of civil liberties. All of this background helped put Nadler at the center of a swirl of events this week as pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia were ejected from Hamilton Hall, as President Biden made his first public remarks about campus protests, as a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel seemed tantalizingly close and as the House passed, by an overwhelming majority of 320 to 91, the Antisemitism Awareness Act — a bill against which Nadler led the oppositio by Playbook Deep Dive