{"id":18818,"date":"2020-01-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b54f963ad1c687341e3676988ee4d7dd"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:00:00","slug":"john-bolton-and-the-giant-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/01\/29\/john-bolton-and-the-giant-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton and the Giant Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Donald Trump\u2019s legal team, including Allan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, argue that the president cannot be impeached for abusing his power. As the battle over Bolton testifying before the Senate intensifies, The Daily Beast\u2019s Spencer Ackerman discusses the longterm impact of the trial on extreme executive power. He also describes his report that Saudi Arabia plotted to kidnap a critic of the regime on U.S. soil and the Cold War rhetoric deployed by the House Managers.<\/p><p>While Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are often portrayed in the media as being kindred political souls with identical and similar positions, there are some important differences, particularly on foreign policy. Sarah Lazare, a writer at In These Times, discusses Warren\u2019s hawkish side, her team of advisers and her evolving position on Israel.<\/p>\n       &#10;&nbsp;<br \/><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; '  rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https:\/\/acast.com\/privacy'>acast.com\/privacy<\/a> for privacy and opt-out information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/johnboltonandthegiantimpeachment\">Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Donald Trump\u2019s legal team, including Allan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, argue that the president cannot be impeached for abusing his power. As the battle over Bolton testifying before the Senate intensifies, The Daily Beast\u2019s Spencer Ackerman dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798307,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818\/revisions\/798307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}