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Paul Begala: “That now we have not just hearsay but allegedly a first-person witness, who can put the president in the position of…”

On the recordNovember 12, 2019
That now we have not just hearsay but allegedly a first-person witness, who can put the president in the position of personally ordering up an investigation of his political rivals.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Paul Begala discusses the significance of having a first-person witness in the impeachment hearings.

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