President's Defense Team Concludes Arguments in Impeachment Trial
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Democrats continue to push for an agreement on witnesses; in particular, they hope to hear from former national security adviser John Bolton. According to a report in the New York Times, Bolton alleges in a forthcoming book that President Trump expressly linked aid to Ukraine to investigations into family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
The impeachment trial will resume tomorrow afternoon, the beginning of a two-day question-and-answer period.
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and congressional correspondents Susan Davis and Kelsey Snell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | It's 5.22 PM on Tuesday, January 28th. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Tamer Keith. |
| 0:10.5 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Kelsey Snile. |
| 0:12.5 | I cover Congress. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Susan Davis. |
| 0:14.5 | I also cover Congress. |
| 0:15.5 | And the president's legal team has now concluded its defense of President Trump in the Senate |
| 0:21.1 | impeachment trial. |
| 0:22.8 | They went pretty quick. |
| 0:23.8 | They only went for about two hours today. |
| 0:26.4 | It stands out to you guys about the whole of their argument. |
| 0:30.1 | Well, I think the brevity, first of all, as you said, Tam, I mean, they really left |
| 0:33.7 | a lot of time left on the table. |
| 0:35.2 | They had 16 hours on their third day of testimony. |
| 0:37.7 | I think they only used up about two, two and a half, give or take. |
| 0:41.6 | And they made really succinct arguments. |
| 0:43.7 | This was not a big grand closing statement like House impeachment manager Adam Schiff tried |
| 0:48.3 | to use. |
| 0:49.3 | I think they just tried to hammer home a couple of big picture closing points to the Senate. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, I mean, Schiff was like, you know, coach in the locker room at halftime. |
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