From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

Hey, everyone. Happy New Year. To kick off 2020, we wanted to bring you something just a little bit different this week.

Right before the House vote to impeach President Trump, Senator Ted Cruz sat down with

Heritage's John Malcolm for a fascinating discussion about the impeachment process so far

and what lies ahead in the Senate.

Malcolm asked all the right questions, and as usual, Senator Cruz did not hold back.

Believe me, you don't want to miss this one.

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Okay, enjoy the conversation.

Well, welcome, everybody, in the Heritage Foundation.

My name is John Malcolm.

I am the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government here,

and we're delighted to have you here for this event which by the way is

being co-hosted by the Claire Booth Luce Center for Conservative Women's who were

delighted that they agreed to partner with us on this so this is an important time in

our nation's history we are delighted to be joined by Senator Cruz I will not give him the elaborate introduction that he richly deserves.

But he does know a thing or two about the Constitution, having argued nine cases before the Supreme Court.

And you had, I know, the privilege of clerking for the last Chief Justice to preside over a president impeachment trial,

and now you're going to be a juror, and it looks like, in one of the impeachment trials.

So let's get right to it.

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