Impeachment Analysis Day 1

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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My full legal analysis of day 1 of the impeachment. Hint there will be some high grades and some very low grades.

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0:00.0	Rating the lawyers, in yesterday's impeachment trial opening, Jamie Raskin, my former student,
0:11.7	he gets an A-minus.
0:13.9	His presentation was excellent, but he was just dead wrong.
0:19.4	David Shone, he gets an A-plus.
0:22.1	I think he presented the arguments effectively.
0:25.5	He presented them strongly, he didn't deviate, and he was right to the point, and I think
0:30.7	he was correct.
0:32.5	Caster, I guess the best I could do was it didn't complete.
0:36.5	I didn't hear the argument.
0:39.1	I didn't understand the theory.
0:42.1	Maybe today we'll see more and better, and we'll hear my analysis of all of yesterday's
0:48.5	proceedings on the Dershow.
0:54.4	My assessment of yesterday's trial, beginning of the trial, I have to tell you, it was not
1:02.6	a stellar performance all around, but Jamie Raskin did a credible job for the House managers,
1:12.3	but he was just fundamentally wrong, and he was proved wrong today.
1:17.2	His focus was on the January exception.
1:19.5	If a president commits a crime or does something wrong in January, the Trump defense lawyers
1:25.6	would give him a January exception.
1:28.6	Total complete nonsense.
1:30.4	Read the headline in today's New York Times.
1:33.0	Here, I'll read it to you.
1:36.4	It says that the Georgia authorities have opened the criminal investigation of President
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