Now It's Our Turn
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The Trump team finally gets a chance to make their case against impeachment, Senator Cruz identifies the sneaky logical trick in Democrats' arguments, and four presidential candidates are stuck in the Capitol just nine days before the Iowa caucuses.
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| 0:00.0 | On Monday, President Trump's legal team will finally get to present the President's affirmative defense. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's what I would argue. |
| 0:09.0 | For 24 hours, House managers devoted hour upon hour to proving two factual propositions. |
| 0:16.5 | Number one, that the President temporarily delayed military aid to Ukraine. |
| 0:22.5 | And number two, that President Trump sought an investigation into Berisma, |
| 0:27.0 | the Ukrainian natural gas company and a corruption potentially involving Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. |
| 0:35.0 | On those two papoints, they devoted more than half of their argument, |
| 0:40.0 | arguing ad nauseam with sight after sight and clip after clip. |
| 0:45.0 | Both of those points are undisputed. |
| 0:48.0 | Both of those points, everyone admits there is no dispute that the military aid was delayed |
| 0:55.0 | and there is no dispute that the President sought an investigation into Berisma, |
| 1:00.0 | indeed he has said so on national television multiple times. |
| 1:04.0 | Neither of those factual propositions are impeachable offenses. |
| 1:09.0 | In fact, neither of those propositions are remotely contrary to law. |
| 1:14.0 | Presidents have the authority and regularly have temporarily delayed foreign aid in circumstances where they had concerns. |
| 1:22.0 | And when it comes to investigating corruption, a President has the authority and the responsibility to investigate serious claims of corruption. |
| 1:35.0 | During their 25 hour opening argument, the Democrats built their case on the proposition that it was utterly fraudulent, that it was completely baseless, |
| 1:45.0 | that there was no evidence to seek an investigation into Berisma and corruption. |
| 1:51.0 | That proposition is laughable because not only was there sufficient evidence to seek an investigation into Berisma and corruption, |
| 2:00.0 | there was so much evidence that there was a need, a legitimate need to investigate, and that need remains today. |
| 2:07.0 | That corruption or potential corruption still needs to be investigated today. |
| 2:13.0 | And from there, the Trump lawyers should calmly, coolly, systematically walk through the mountains of evidence that raise major red flags that raise major concerns about corruption, |
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