Hey, good evening. We are coming to you at the end of the day that saw how some

impeachment managers make the constitutional case that the president, President Trump,

abused the power of his office to extract political favors from a foreign country.

And the president, they argued, was not fighting corruption when he asked the president of

Ukraine to investigate the Biden. The president, they argued, was in it for himself. And in laying

out the evidence, they took the potentially risky step of making Vice President Biden

himself and the president's unfounded allegations against him, a major part of their

presentation, which is only one item of interest among many tonight. And we'll talk about

them all for a CNN's Athena Jones at the stage.

The most serious charge has ever brought against the president.

House manager Jerry Nallar started the day quoting a long list of constitutional experts

and invoking the framers of the Constitution.

Abuse, betrayal, corruption. This is exactly the understanding that the framers incorporated

into the Constitution.

Democrats using visual aids to bolster their case that Trump used the power of his office

to pressure Ukraine to surface own political interests using comments from the president's

own allies, notably Attorney General Bill Barr, Alan Dershowitz, a member of his legal

team, and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, one of the jurors in the trial, to make

the point that an impeachable offense does not have to be a statutory crime.

I think that's what they meant by high crimes. Don't even have to be a crime. It's just

when you start using your office and you're acting in a way that hurts people, you've committed

a high crime.

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