AC360 did not air on CNN today.

For this podcast episode, we are bringing you an hour of CNN coverage from earlier in

the day.

So there you have the White House lawyers making the case on behalf of the president going

into detail after detail after detail on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Burisma, the Ukrainian

gas company and blaming the Democratic House managers for this extensive two to three hour

conversation that they just had on the Senate floor of Pambondi, one of the president's

lawyers, the former Florida attorney general and Eric Hirschman, another of the one of

the president's lawyers going through all of the allegations that have been made against

the former vice president and its unhunter Biden and Jake.

There was still no reference at all to John Bolton, the former national security adviser

and the allegations that he is suggesting in the draft manuscript of his new book, but

they certainly went into detail on the Biden's.

So first of all, as you note, the biggest development in the last day is the fact that

we now know that the former national security adviser John Bolton, in his new book and

the manuscript, according to people who have seen it, who talked to the New York Times,

he is alleging that he heard specifically from President Trump that it was a quid pro quo

that Ukraine would only get the security assistance up to $400 million worth in exchange

for investigation into the Biden's.

And once again, we have the Trump defending lawyers not acknowledging that fact, even though

all 100 senators, I think, likely know that that's a fact and that's one they need to address

because their whole defense is nobody heard from President Trump that there was a quid pro quo,

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