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David Cicilline: “The President's conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2019
The President's conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the remedy of impeachment in the Constitution.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline discusses the importance of impeachment regarding presidential conduct threatening democracy.

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