Questions of Foreign Interference Continue as Trial Moves Closer to Vote on Witnesses

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Close to a vote on whether to include witnesses, the White House legal team continued to defend its argument that the president sometimes has authority to ask foreign powers to investigate political rivals in the name of public interest.

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