An Impeachment Trial Update
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We have an impeachment trial going on. We've had hours and hours of presentation by the House managers, and hours of presentation by the president's defense team, and there are likely hours to go. To bring us up to speed with where we are, where we are after the big John Bolton bombshell over the weekend, and the coming fight over witnesses, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Margaret Taylor, Quinta Jurecic, and Jonathan David Shaub.
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| 0:58.9 | It's not a vote on a particular written. |
| 1:00.7 | It is a vote that will be taken on sort of whether to consider calling any additional |
| 1:07.8 | witnesses or subpoenaing documents. |
| 1:10.0 | So that actually is the very first vote that senators will take. |
| 1:14.4 | If that vote is successful in the sense of yes, senators want to hear from additional |
| 1:20.1 | witnesses or subpoenaed documents, then there would be, in theory, additional votes on |
| 1:25.6 | these things. |
| 1:26.6 | There's this more general vote first. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast January 28th, 2020. |
| 1:38.7 | We got an impeachment trial going on people in case you hadn't noticed. |
| 1:42.3 | We've had hours and hours like 21 hours of presentation by the House managers. |
| 1:49.8 | We've had 10 or 11 hours so far of presentation by the president's defense team. |
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