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Anderson Cooper 360

Dems wrap up arguments; Trump team starts defense tomorrow; Schiff makes final plea for witnesses: "Give America a fair trial;" President Trump: "What my people have to do is just be honest, just tell the truth"

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dems wrap up arguments; Trump team starts defense tomorrow; Schiff makes final plea for witnesses: "Give America a fair trial;" White House, Senate GOP sources confident they'll defeat motion to call witnesses and subpoena documents; President Trump: "What my people have to do is just be honest, just tell the truth;" Schiff expects Trump's attorneys will "attack" his team; Trump attorney: Dems "trying to remove the President" from 2020 ballot; ABC News releases audio purportedly of President Trump ordering firing of U.S. Ambassador to UkraineTo 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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0:00.0

Good evening. We have now heard from beginning to end the case for removing President Trump

0:09.2

from office Democratic House impeachment managers tonight wrapping up their three-day

0:13.3

long opening presentation. They laid out the facts and logic behind their two articles

0:17.7

of impeachment in a way that wherever you may stand on the president was both easy to

0:21.9

follow and maybe difficult to dismiss out of hand. We'll talk more in the hour ahead

0:26.3

about the impact their words may be having and on whom we'll look ahead as well to

0:31.1

tomorrow when the defense begins its case. Also tonight, what could be new evidence that

0:35.8

could speak to the president's conduct, recording with what appears to be his voice on it,

0:40.2

demanding the firing in the U.S. Ambassador at the center of all of this. It was reportedly

0:43.6

made at a dinner with the man left-parnis, who the president has repeatedly said he doesn't

0:47.8

know. A reminder to senators, perhaps the political risks of rushing this through only

0:52.6

to see new facts in the case come to light. First though, CNN's Sarah Murray takes a look

0:57.2

back at what we heard today. The president abused the powers entrusted in him by the American

1:06.8

people in a scheme to suppress evidence, escape accountability, and orchestrate a massive

1:16.8

cover-up.

1:18.1

In their final day of opening arguments, Democrats condemned President Trump's efforts to

1:22.4

block witnesses.

1:24.1

President Trump forced those officials to choose between submitting to the demands of their

1:29.8

boss or break the law.

1:32.3

And the Trump administration's refusal to hand over any documents to impeachment investigators.

1:37.7

No documents, zero, guse, nada.

1:41.4

Impeachment managers set the stakes, arguing the president abused his power when he attempted

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