GOP senator: Wrong, yes. Impeachable, no

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

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It's likely going to end how it began - partisan, acrimonious, and with President Donald Trump still in office. Senators Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski both signaled their opposition to witnesses, all but assuring that the Senate trial will wrap up without testimony from key figures like Ambassador John Bolton. How will American voters react? CNN senior writer Zach Wolf - who publishes the impeachment watch newsletter - unpacks the latest impeachment developments with CNN reporter & producer Marshall Cohen and CNN political commentator Sarah Isgur.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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0:32.6	Hello and welcome to the Daily DC Impeachment Watch.
0:37.9	I'm Zach Wolfe, a senior writer here at CNN, and the publisher of the Impeachment Watch newsletter.
0:44.0	You can sign up at CNN.com slash impeachment.
0:47.1	That's also where you can find the latest news and analysis relating to this pivotal time in U.S. history.
0:53.2	I've got a dynamic duo in studio with me to talk
0:56.0	through the very fluid day that we're seeing up on Capitol Hill. That's CNN reporter and producer
1:00.8	Marshall Cohen and CNN political commentator Sarah Isker, who is also a staff writer and podcaster
1:07.2	at the dispatch. Thanks for joining me, both of you.
1:10.5	Hey, Zach. So we have come to the end of this impeachment saga. While it will continue,
1:16.6	I think, on Capitol Hill for maybe a day, maybe a few days. We know ultimately that President
1:22.6	Trump will be acquitted. And we now know that Republicans will not call any witnesses. Lamar Alexander
1:30.5	sort of was the tipping point on this because he announced in the wee hours, gosh, I'm not even
1:37.7	sure if it was midnight or after midnight or before midnight. It was sometime in the last past 12 hours
1:42.7	and it all blends together for us. It really does.
1:45.5	It was before my last sleep, as my son would say.
1:48.8	He said essentially that Trump did it, but it might not be impeachable.
1:57.4	And he thinks that the American public and not the Senate should be deciding who the president is.
2:07.1	And then on the flip side of that, we have people like Adam Schiff who take obviously the opposite view.
2:14.7	And he gave a very sort of impassioned speech today arguing after we knew
2:19.8	there wouldn't be witnesses arguing in the strange, you know, pageantry of the Senate arguing
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