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Okay, a lot going on in Washington. This has been a crazy week. This is a more spontaneous

podcast than most. I did not have this on the calendar, but the scandals have been piling up

so quickly in the White House that just feels like something needs to be said. This is the first

moment where the path to impeachment has seemed actually open. I have not been one of these people

who felt that impeachment was likely, even though I dearly hope for it, but given just how

inept Trump and his surrogates have been in containing the bleeding here, I feel like I'm beginning

to see the possibility that this egregious man may not serve his full term. So I decided to reach

out to a few experts who have already been on the podcast to give us their take. The first is

Ann Applebaum, Ann is a columnist for the Washington Post. She's been writing fantastic pieces

analyzing what's going on in Washington. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, a visiting

professor at the London School of Economics, where she runs a program called Arena, which deals

with the problem of disinformation and propaganda in the 21st century. And she's a real expert on Russia.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Gulag, a history. So she is perfectly placed to think

about the unfolding Russia scandal and the fact that we have a president who's fondness for Russia

and for Putin in particular remains at best unexplained. And my second guest today is Juliet Coyam,

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