Interview with Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz; Interview with Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown; Interview with impeachment manager Democratic Rep. Jason Crow.

State of the Union

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🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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First, CNN's Brianna Keilar talks with Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz and CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin about the constitutional arguments for and against removing President Donald Trump from office in the Senate. Next, Keilar interviews Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio about his role as a juror in the Senate trial and the clash between 2020 presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail. Then, Keilar interviews impeachment manager Democratic Rep. Jason Crow about the Democratic strategy to win over Republican Senators and call additional witness testimony. Finally, Rep. Michael Waltz, Karen Finney, Mary Katherine Ham and Terry McAuliffe join Keilar to talk about the politics of impeachment and the latest in the 2020 presidential campaign.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	Inpartial justice after months of build-up President Trump's impeachment trial begins with legal teams preparing through the weekend.
0:13.9	The House's hour is over.
0:16.0	The Senate's time is at hand.
0:17.8	What are both sides revealing about their strategies?
0:20.8	One of the attorneys speaking for the president,
0:23.0	Alan Dershooitz, is next,
0:25.0	and House manager Congressman Jason Crow in moments.
0:28.0	And ground rules.
0:30.0	The trial will put all 100 U.S. Senators on the record, with new potentially damaging information
0:35.7	about the case still emerging.
0:38.2	Will Senators vote to hear more?
0:41.1	To have no witnesses would be a dramatic break with precedent.
0:44.4	Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown joins me coming up.
0:47.6	Plus, jury duty.
0:49.4	Four presidential candidates are forced off the campaign trail just two weeks before Iowans vote.
0:56.0	Between you and me, I would prefer to be in Iowa.
0:59.0	The impact of the Senate impeachment trial on the first contest of 2020. Hello I'm Brianna Kieler in for Jake Tapper in Washington where the state of our
1:14.9	Union is bracing for a fight and we begin this morning with our first look at
1:19.6	what the Senate trial of President Donald J Trump will look like.
1:23.2	Last night the House impeachment managers filed a legal brief urging senators to consider
1:27.8	their place in history and remove the president from office for conduct they called,
1:32.0	quote, the framers worst nightmare arguing
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