The Impeachment Inquiry Report (Updated)

De: Jerrold Nadler, Committee on the Judiciary, Adam B. Schiff, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on Oversight and Reform, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Narrado por: Emily Bauer, Victor Bevine, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Stephen Bel Davies, LJ Ganser, Piper Goodeve, Basil Sands, Marc Vietor

On December 16, 2019, Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, and the full Committee on the Judiciary, released an updated version of the Impeachment Report. Listeners who have the previous release of The Impeachment Inquiry Report in their Audible libraries may prefer to listen to this final version. Now officially titled Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, this document serves as the latest government-issued report from the Democrat-led House. It includes the Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment as well as The Articles of Impeachment.

This audio recording keeps intact the most current version of the Republican-issued report The Report of Evidence in the Democrats’ Impeachment Inquiry in the House of Representatives.

A new PDF has been included, and as always, Audible will make every effort to provide updates if subsequent versions are released.

Original Summary, December 6, 2019

The Impeachment Inquiry Report audio recording contains two government-issued documents: the official impeachment inquiry and the official counter-report.

On December 3, 2019, The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report, prepared by Adam B. Schiff, Chairman of the United States House of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in coordination with the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, was released. The Report reflects the evidence gathered thus far as a part of the House of Representatives’ formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump in response to the Ukraine scandal and alleged abuse of power. This recording is the full report, narrated with minor editorial changes for clarity.

Following The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report, this recording also includes complete narration (with minor editorial edits for clarity) of The Report of Evidence in the Democrats’ Impeachment Inquiry in the House of Representatives. This Republican rebuttal was issued as an official minority report from the offices of Devin Nunes, Ranking Member, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Jim Jordan, Ranking Member, Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Michael T. McCaul, Ranking Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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Long, but a must listen.

Even if you are on the side of the President, this is the only way you will get a complete witness testimony from several individuals that were part of the act that Trump is being tried for. As of now, we all know how the trial will come out, but if you really need to know what kind of a man Trump really is, listen, and learn.

Straight forward, direct and well narrated.

Anyone who believes they've got the full story on political headlines by just watching their favorite news source on television or their latest online news feed... is kidding themselves. If you're at all interested in what's going on in Washington at any given moment, then you have to listen to both sides of the story and draw your own position from ALL the facts with the entire narrative from all sides. All with the understanding that there is a slant and biased agenda from most news sources.

Audible has made this impeachment report available to their listeners so that more people may understand what's going on in our government today in an effort to achieve a more informed republic. I applaud their efforts here.

While it's long... and at times drone like in it's narration... both democrats and republicans have their say in this report. There's a proponent side and an opponent side to listen to. There's multiple narrators and I believe the whole thing was well done.

I would recommend to anyone who will be voting in the next election in 2020 and anyone who wants to understand this impeachment proceeding a bit better. This is not a news story. This is not a one sided narrative, as both sides have their say and interpretations here. It is an account of the actions and behavior of our president that became an inquiry in the House of Representatives that eventually was voted upon for impeachment.

Here's The Proof

A Very Well Put Together Interpretation Of What Infractions Produce Impeachment. Well Written And Easy To Understand.

Fascinating but oftentimes very repetitive

I cannot say that I was ever uninterested while listening to this, but there are times when there is information that is repeated multiple times. This may be necessary for an official document but something that is intended for the average person it gets tedious. The most interesting section is early on and explores the historical context of impeachment proceedings and powers, there reach and limitations. But once it gets into the nuts and bolts of the case then it becomes very dry as most of these reports are. It took me several months to get through it, listening to large chunks at a time and picking it up later. It was sometimes due to boredom and other times the need to step back when the terrifying reality became overwhelming and the lack of prosecution against the man (and his conspirators) who were actively seeking to undermine the very principles of American democracy so that they could remain in power. The evidence presented in this document give very credible evidence (most from the subject of the impeachment himself) that a coup was in the works. There is a large section where Republican representatives offer a rebuttal to the charges and this was the toughest to get through and gave me no pause in my own personal views that Trump was innocent of all the charges against him. I cannot say that I would ever listen to this again in its entirety but there are sections I might revisit. As far as the performance of the narrator it varies since it is several who read sections. The dullest one is the Republican rebuttal section where the narrator comes across as a snotty elitist. The rest are fine. There isn't much one can do to make a report sound "exciting".

Very important

We all have differing views in an this issue. The need for all Americans to read this report can't be overstated,
not because we can influence the outcome of a potential trial but because we are voters.
As stewards of American historical values we have a civic duty to read this. The more knowledge we have about our Constitution and how it works the better . This book can't be reviewed in a normal way because of it's nature.
The fact that addable made this available to us free is just another way to underscore the need for us to reed it.
Thanks for another great public service from Audible.

So much partisanship!

I’m normally a centrist when it comes to politics. But I’ve come to realize basically anybody with a brain can tell this is Pardison! I give it a 4, but if it wasn’t for the fact that this was a total shit show

Very long first four hours are great for insomnia suffers

This is about politics and politicians so it’s a given it’s going to be extremely long winded and in some cases very repetitive. Sometimes I thought the recording was jumping back but no It’s just politician’s repeating themselves. If you can get through that, it starts to get interesting after about four hours into it. After completing this whole inquiry I came away with some opinions, 1) by the ridiculous low standard of “evidence” more accurately put “”conjecture or wishful thinking ” by the House of Representatives every president we’ve ever had would be guilty of an impeachable offense. 2) There were a lot of opinion witnesses and barely any fact witnesses.
3) the only thing they accomplished was too waste our time (President Trump was already taking steps to combat COVID-19) while they were screwing around with this useless exercise.
4) They wasted our tax money for nothing.
5) Lastly, I know exactly why Nancy Pelosi waited to send this to the Senate, because she knew it was b.s. After reading this, so do I.