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Laura Coates Live

Impeachment Hearing Special

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Chris covers the Senate Impeachment hearing.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

Thank you, Anderson. Hello, everyone. I am Chris Bormann.

0:02.5

Day two of the Democrats opening arguments is in the books.

0:06.8

House impeachment managers made their case about, again, about eight hours today.

0:12.0

Different, though, than yesterday. How? It was more structured.

0:15.8

They laid it out more with what they call sign posting.

0:18.8

Here's where we're going to go. Here's why we're going to go there.

0:22.1

And it seemed to work. The main points, though, were also some of the most

0:27.1

provocative ones. President Trump abused his power. How?

0:31.5

Pressuring Ukraine to serve his own political interests.

0:36.3

And then closing remarks. Congressman Adam Schiff, seemingly emotional,

0:43.0

certainly forceful, calling on senators to understand the risk of more.

0:50.3

You can't trust this president. Do what's right for this country.

0:58.5

You can trust he will do what's right for Donald Trump.

1:04.4

He'll do it now. He's done it before. He'll do it for the next several months. He'll do it in

1:10.0

the election if he's allowed to. This is why if you find him guilty, you must find

1:19.7

that he should be removed. Because right matters.

1:30.0

Let's break down the strengths, the weaknesses, what it leads to, what it brings out as a need

1:34.8

for the defense. We have Andrew McCabe and Michael Gehrhardt. First, quick thing for people

1:39.6

on procedure professor. If you find him guilty, you must vote to remove.

1:45.7

Is that being pedantic? Can you find him guilty and not vote to remove?

1:49.8

Well, the first couple of times that the Senate considered

1:53.3

convicting somebody and removing them from office, the Senate actually split the votes.

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