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Joe Neguse: “Seven Republican senators voted to convict a president of…”

Featuring: Joe Neguse, Democratic | U.S. House Colorado, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressional Exchange on Impeachment and Judicial Authority with Newt Gingrich

Published | Video Starts at 00:49

And in that impeachment, as you well know, of all the presidential impeachments, which I suspect you've studied, seven Republican senators did something that no Seven Republican senators voted to convict a president of their own political party [in the second impeachment trial against President Trump]. So I think that is a far cry from repudiation. I understand that it didn't meet the constitutional threshold for success. Johnson had the same experience in, I believe, 1868. (00:49–01:03)

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Asserts that seven Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.

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