Can Democrats keep impeachment spicy?

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Amber Phillips on the opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. Anna Fifield and Lena Sun on the rapidly spreading coronavirus. And David Fahrenthold reports on how Trump’s D.C. hotel blurs lines of private interests and public life.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.
0:07.0	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:13.5	This is Post Reports.
0:15.1	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.8	It's Wednesday, January 22.
0:23.5	Today, Democrats present their opening arguments.
0:27.0	The health officials fight the spread of a coronavirus and mapping impeachment back to the Trump
0:32.4	hotel.
0:37.7	The Senate will convene as a court of impeachment.
0:40.4	The chaplain will lead us in prayer.
0:42.9	So in the most bare basics version, what happened today?
0:47.5	The first trial part of the Senate impeachment trial got started and House Democrats began
0:54.4	presenting their case about why the Senate should convict Trump and throw him out of office.
0:58.4	Today, you will hear the details of the president's corrupt scheme in narrative form.
1:03.5	I'm Amber Phillips.
1:04.5	I analyze politics for the fixed blog at the Washington Post.
1:08.7	And the arguments that Democrats are making are basically the same arguments that we heard
1:12.9	during the House impeachment hearings.
1:15.1	That's right.
1:16.1	There's not a lot of new information here at all.
1:18.8	I listen to Chairman Adam Schiff start things off.
1:23.0	For the coming days, you will hear from the House managers details of this scheme and the
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