GOP Senators and Trump’s defense team met to discuss “strategy”

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

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Former Pres. Trump’s legal team met with Republican Senators, who are also jurors in the impeachment trial, to discuss “strategy.” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is also a juror in the trial. He joins AC360 to react to his colleagues meeting with Trump’s lawyers. Plus, a source tells CNN that Trump’s attorneys are looking to shorten their Senate presentation to as little as three hours in order to make it “short, tight and direct.” The former President’s legal team is expected to argue there is no “direct” link between the insurrectionists and Trump. George Conway is a conservative lawyer and has been a staunch critic of the former President. He tells Anderson Cooper that Trump knows the effect of his words and that he had a duty to protect the country on January 6th but did the exact opposite. Airdate: February 11, 2021 Guests: Sen. Chris Murphy George Conway 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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0:00.0	Good evening, House impeachment managers have now concluded their case for why the former
0:05.1	president of the United States must never be allowed to even contemplate another run
0:08.6	for that office, presenting a case that was as much about arguing his guilt for 100 US
0:13.4	senators as it was defining his legacy before the American public.
0:17.9	Tomorrow his legal team will have to their turn to rebut the House manager's case, however
0:22.9	those arguments to senators appear to have already begun, at least behind closed doors.
0:28.0	Years ago, three of the former presidents, most reliable backers in the Senate, Lindsey
0:32.0	Graham Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, met privately with the former president's attorneys on Capitol
0:36.8	Hill.
0:37.8	Senator Cruz told CNN this about the private meeting, quote, we were discussing their
0:41.7	strategy for tomorrow and discussing their thoughts on where it should go.
0:45.3	Again, these three men are jurors in a trial.
0:49.4	So ethics aside, it's pretty much an indication that the fix is likely in.
0:54.6	And the Democrats seem to know that today they also issued a warning, a warning that this
0:59.0	could happen again, a warning for the future of this country and a clear message about
1:03.5	what will be the legacy of the former president.
1:06.4	The editorial page that conservative Wall Street Journal today picked up on it this evening
1:10.6	with the piece titled, the Trump impeachment evidence, he might be acquitted, but he won't
1:16.1	live down his disgraceful conduct.
1:18.5	This is the final paragraph.
1:19.9	It reads, now his legacy will be forever stained by this violence and by his betrayal
1:24.5	of his supporters and refusing to tell them the truth.
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