Americans want to hear from witnesses, poll reveals

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

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A new CNN poll reveals that most Americans want to hear from witnesses at the Senate trial. But will Republicans be able to resist the political pressure and rally behind President Trump's desire for a speedy acquittal? And what role will Alan Dershowtiz play on Trump's defense team? Meanwhile, Congressman Adam Schiff alleges that the intelligence community is holding up pertinent information on the Ukraine investigation because they don't want to damage the Trump administration. CNN political director David Chalian dives into the latest impeachment developments with CNN senior writer Zach Wolf and CNN political commentator Maria Cardona.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9	Hey everyone, I'm David Chalien, the CNN Political director. This is the Daily D.C. impeachment watch.
0:41.4	Tomorrow, the final phase of this historic saga begins. That is the Senate trial. I've got two great guests today to help me anticipate what to look for in the days ahead as this trial gets underway and how it's going to play out
0:55.4	politically. In a few minutes, we'll be chatting with Democratic strategist and CNN political
1:00.4	commentator, Maria Cardona. But first, I'm joined by the man behind CNN's impeachment watch newsletter,
1:06.7	which you can subscribe to at CNN.com slash impeachment. That's senior writer, Zach Wolf, Zach, welcome back to the podcast.
1:13.9	Thank you. And thanks for the plug. Please do sign up.
1:16.1	Of course.
1:18.5	Chuck Schumer, as he is wont to do, gave a Sunday press conference. That's his thing.
1:24.0	Sunday press conferences in New York.
1:25.5	He actually last night gave one after doing some
1:28.9	preparation over the weekend around the opening sequences of how this is going to play out
1:35.2	in the Senate starting tomorrow. And it is clear from his remarks that the Democrats are not
1:42.3	backing away at all from this notion of really trying to force
1:45.8	witnesses into this conversation, despite the fact that Mitch McConnell seems not all that
1:52.5	interested and has his members lined up to begin the trial without an agreement on witnesses.
1:58.7	But this was Schumer last night on basically trial leave, keeping the pressure on.
2:04.5	The president's afraid of the truth.
2:07.4	Most Americans, my guess is even Republicans, know what the truth is and know he's hiding it.
2:14.3	We Democrats aim to get the truth and make no mistake about it.
2:20.6	We will force votes on witnesses and documents, and it will be up to four Republicans to side with the Constitution.
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