House managers and Trump defense take questions in impeachment trial: Live coverage #1
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After six days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, senators now get the chance to ask questions. Questions are submitted in writing to be read by Chief Justice John Roberts, with answers generally limited to five minutes.House managers and Trump defense take questions in impeachment trial: Live coverage #1
After six days of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, senators now get the chance to ask questions. Questions are submitted in writing to be read by Chief Justice John Roberts, with answers generally limited to five minutes. Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 · 6:20:04 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner And we’re underway with questions coming in from Senators, through John Roberts, and out to the legal teams. And on the very first question, Trump’s legal team is already falling back on the position that even if he did it, Trump’s actions are not impeachable — and he’s even less impossible if there was a possibility that there was some other motivation for Trump’s actions. Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 · 6:20:48 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner And Trump’s team is, on question one, smearing Joe Biden. Because why not. Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 · 6:22:32 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner Trump’s team now arguing not that Trump actually had a valid motive, but there only has to be the possibility of a valid motive. Which is like saying it’s not that he killed the man in self-defense. It’s that self-defense is a thing so … case dismissed! Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 · 6:29:34 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner Schumer sends a question to the House managers asking about the claims that have been learned from Bolton’s book. Provides the House team a platform to argue for Bolton, Mulvaney, and other first-hand witnesses. Schiff: “There’s no way to have a trial without witnesses.” Schiff uses the question to also flip the script on the previous response from the Trump team, then goes back to the restaurant conversation between Trump and Sondland. Shows that Trump asked about investigations, not “burden sharing” who would be the perfect to talk about with the ambassador to the EU. Schiff: “Don’t wait till the book. Don’t want till March 17 then it’s in black and white.” Schiff shows a video of Cipollone saying “Who doesn’t want to talk about the facts, impeachment shouldn’t be a shell game.” This question and answer session is going to be brutal. Read more