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Will Lamar Alexander Turn on Trump?

Impeachment-focused Democrats need a Republican ally if they’re going to succeed.
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In late June 1973, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee earned his place in history by asking the essential question of the Watergate hearings: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”

Baker had been a Nixon ally. In February 1973, he told Nixon, “I’m your friend. I’m going to see that your interests are protected.” But that was before the revelation that Nixon had recorded Oval Office conversations, and before

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