The political science of impeachment

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5

It started with a warning to watch her back, that people were ``looking to hurt'' her. From there, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators, it escalated into a chilling campaign to fire her as President Donald Trump and his allies angled in Eastern Europe for political advantage at home. That's from testimony released on Monday, which offered a first word-for-word look at the closed-door House impeachment hearings. To dive a little deeper into the topic, International Edition’s Steve Miller spoke to August University political science professor Craig Albert. Plus updates from the Middle East, Hong Kong, and more.