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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: next guest. Richard Bufo, is professor of litigation at Columbia

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Speaker 1: Law School. We have a lot to speak to you about, Professor,

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Speaker 1: not least the fact that the House has just introduced

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Speaker 1: an article of impeachment against the president, the second impeachment

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Speaker 1: for the first time ever of a president potentially. But

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Speaker 1: that said, what is your base case scenario for how

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Speaker 1: rebuke of President Trump proceeds? Well? At this point, it

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Speaker 1: looks like the House is planning to go ahead with

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Speaker 1: an impeachment proceeding unless, which I guess beginning to see

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Speaker 1: monlikely Vice President pens and the Cabinet moved to remove

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Speaker 1: the president under the amendment. So it does seem as

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Speaker 1: though the House is quite serious about beginning impeachment proceedings,

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Speaker 1: possibly as early as tomorrow or Wednesday. So Professor, Let's

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Speaker 1: assume that the House does move forward. How do you

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Speaker 1: think the timing will play out in terms of the Senate. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a good question, and I think right now they're

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Speaker 1: making some Uh there's the initial comments. Are they want

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Speaker 1: to get the House wants to take care of the impeachment.

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Speaker 1: Remember the impeachments the equival of an indictment, you could, well,

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Speaker 1: the impeachment means is the House has called for a

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Speaker 1: trial in the Senate. Um. The actual any um conviction

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Speaker 1: and like the impeachment that grew out of the Ukraine

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Speaker 1: phone call um, so the House could could do this

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Speaker 1: rather quickly. What about the Senate, that's a good question,

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Speaker 1: sent I think is out of session right now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Leuda McConnell is talking about not bringing them back until

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Speaker 1: nineteen UM. The House um majority whip UH Congressman Clyburne

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Speaker 1: is talking about even not even sending over the impeachment

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Speaker 1: decision the impeachment resolution to the Senate until some time

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Speaker 1: after the start of the Biden administration. So it's not

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Speaker 1: hard to tell when it does seem though it's quite

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Speaker 1: possible that an impeachment could be voted soon, but it's

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Speaker 1: hard to tell at what point it will move from

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Speaker 1: the House to the Senate exactly. This talk of you know,

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Speaker 1: a hundred days, even allowing Biden half his hundred days.

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Speaker 1: What about the idea that it's a sole article of

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Speaker 1: impeachment it is regarding inciting the insurrection at the capital

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Speaker 1: on January six, in your professional and legal opinion, was

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Speaker 1: that the right charge and it is the president guilty

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Speaker 1: of it? Well, I noticed they actually combine that with

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Speaker 1: the president's phone call to Rappensburg in the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State of Georgia pressuring him to find new votes in

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Speaker 1: an effective change the outcome of the election. So it

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Speaker 1: is primarily, of course about the uh the attack on

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Speaker 1: the Capitol, but I think there are other other statements

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Speaker 1: in it that he followed prior to subvert and obstruct

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Speaker 1: the certification of the electors. I think they weave it

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Speaker 1: by his inciting speech at the Ellipse was trying to

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Speaker 1: block Congress from doing its constitutional duty. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a good argument. I mean, I think obviously you need

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Speaker 1: of many members of that mob to literally block the

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Speaker 1: certification of the vote. That is an aspect of an attacking,

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Speaker 1: the amendment, uh, in what's kind of the calculus behind

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be initiated by the vice president? Yes,

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Speaker 1: participation in insurrection. And so the idea there would be again,

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Speaker 1: in terms of Senator Hawley, maybe Senator Cruise, particularly people

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Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that the impeachment itself

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Speaker 1: it's really about the first and the third. Richard Brice brief.

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Speaker 1: Joseph P. Chamberlain, Professor of Legislation at Columbia Law School,

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Speaker 1: helping us break down UH the impeachment process, which looks

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Speaker 1: pleasure to speak to our next guest. Susan DeVore is

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer of the Premiere, which is the health

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining. Scott Stringer, the New York City Controller,

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Speaker 1: coming out today and explaining that, you know, the forms

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Speaker 1: better the vaccine can be ruled out. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for having me. While the truth is we've got

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Speaker 1: the biggest supply chain challenge probably UH in history for healthcare.

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Speaker 1: There are several systemic issues. First, we've got a hesitancy problem.

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Speaker 1: we actually have a way to accelerate this. You know,

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Speaker 1: How does Premiere work with the various states. It seems

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Speaker 1: like because it's a state by state issue, it's obviously

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Speaker 1: slightly different for every state. And you know, a company

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Speaker 1: wait and see. So, Brooke, you covered the industrial America

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Speaker 1: And so I think, you know, if you do as

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Speaker 1: And you know, even in the shorter term, talking about

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Speaker 1: this administration. That could be particularly helpful for the aerostates

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Speaker 1: does come back, would certainly be beneficial. Hey, brook thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. We appreciate chatting with

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Speaker 1: you as always about all things coming out of Industrial America.

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Speaker 1: Brooks Sutherland deals and industrials columns for Bloomberg Opinion. You

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Speaker 1: from our Bloomberg Opinion columns at Bloomberg dot com, Slash

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Speaker 1: It's eating to see um industrial America. We've seen a

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Speaker 1: manufacturing data bonnie pretty solid over the last four or

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Speaker 1: five months, so the industrial part of the economy is

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Speaker 1: doing pretty well, gearing up for what it expects to

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Speaker 1: be a stronger back half of Thanks for listening to

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