House Managers Speak Out: All seven Democrats talk about impeachment trial

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🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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All seven Democrats talk about impeachment trial; Lofgren: President Trump has not been exonerated; Demings: "We did not have a fair trial;" Nadler on President Trump: "You can't normalize this conduct;" Schiff: "I find myself optimistic coming out of this trial;" Schiff on Romney: "One person can change the course of history;" Schiff: Bolton refused to give a sworn affidavit in trial after Senators voted down additional testimony; Nadler: It's "completely irrelevant" what Hunter Biden did or didn't do; Jeffries: The President "hasn't learned his lesson"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	Hey, welcome to AC 360, a special report.
0:02.8	I'm Anderson Cooper in Washington for two weeks.
0:05.4	We watch seven Democratic House managers lay out a case to convict President Donald Trump
0:09.9	on two charges, abusive power and obstruction of Congress.
0:13.6	They led the president withheld military aid from Ukraine and dangle the meeting of the
0:17.0	White House for Ukraine's newly elected president, all in exchange for an announcement of an
0:21.6	investigation into President Trump's political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
0:26.5	You were watching history in the making as these seven managers made their case for only
0:30.4	the third impeachment trial in history.
0:33.2	The trial was filled with ups and downs for both sides.
0:36.1	New evidence reportedly from former National Security Advisor John Bolton came to light,
0:40.4	as well as recordings of the president released by a former associate of Rudy Giuliani.
0:44.7	But a vote to call new witnesses failed, despite support from two Republican senators.
0:49.6	When it came down to vote to convict or quit, there was another surprise.
0:54.0	Republican Senator Mitt Romney voted with Democrats on one count, abusive power.
0:58.6	In the end, the president was acquitted on both counts.
1:01.4	These seven House managers, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Bell Demings, Sylvia Garcia, Jason
1:06.2	Crow, Zoolofgren, and Hakeem Jeffries are speaking out tonight as a group for the first
1:11.0	time since the president was acquitted.
1:14.3	First of all, when you assume you all get newspapers, when you woke up today and you saw this,
1:19.2	I'm wondering when you saw the headline.
1:21.8	I just saw it for the first time here.
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