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Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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As televised hearings bring the impeachment inquiry into public view, voters remain split on their support for the President.

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0:00.0	From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.
0:08.6	I'm Steve Kurnaki.
0:09.5	Today is Monday, November 18th, and here's what's happening.
0:12.4	We are at the Monday, November 18th, and here's what's happening.
0:13.4	We are at the start of a hugely consequential week for President Trump and the impeachment
0:19.9	inquiry.
0:20.8	It's week two of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry.
0:24.0	Around 13.8 million Americans tuned in last Wednesday
0:28.7	when Bill Taylor and George Kent became the first witnesses to testify publicly.
0:34.0	13.8 million.
0:35.8	If you want some perspective for that number,
0:38.0	about a million fewer than that
0:40.0	watched Robert Mueller's testimony over the summer at 13.8 million is also a little bit bigger
0:45.9	than the number who watched the Game of Thrones finale back in May. That one got 13.6 million viewers.
0:52.2	I was not among those 13.6 million viewers. I was not among those 13.6 million. And it's also a big drop-off from
0:56.7	the day Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified back in the fall of 2018. About 20 million people were watching that day.
1:05.0	This week we're asking what do voters really think about impeachment
1:09.0	and with these public hearings are the politics of impeachment changing.
1:17.0	Vaughn Hilliard is a political reporter for NBC news.
1:19.6	Vaughn, how you doing?
1:20.6	Good.
1:21.1	So, Vaughn, you're on the road talking to voters trying to figure out what they're making of these
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