Ray for the Defense

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Robert Ray, a member of President Trump’s impeachment defense team, and Ken Gormley, constitutional law scholar and President of Duquesne University join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Ray discusses the impeachment trial, whether or not the defense team has a plan if witnesses are called - and if so - will executive privilege be invoked. Then Gormley weighs in on the unprecedented aspects of this impeachment vs. prior impeachments. Lastly, Yahoo News' own Jon Ward helps paint the picture of what it's like to sit within the room where the Senate trial is taking place.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.1	And you know, you can't trust this president, do what's right for this country.
0:27.4	You can trust he will do what's right for Donald Trump.
0:34.3	He'll do it now. He's done it before. He'll do it for the next several months.
0:39.0	He'll do it in the election if he's allowed to.
0:43.1	This is why if you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed.
0:51.4	Because right matters.
0:55.3	Because right matters.
0:58.0	And the truth matters.
1:01.1	Otherwise, we are lost.
1:04.1	That was Congressman Adam Schiff, delivering his closing argument Thursday night in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
1:11.8	He came at the end of three days and nights of presentations by House managers that laid out their case.
1:17.5	That the president used the powers of his office to coerce a foreign government to launch investigations that had only one purpose.
1:25.2	To sell a political rival in aid as 2020 re-election campaign.
1:30.1	The presentations were by all accounts powerful and compelling at times.
1:33.8	None more so when Schiff was center stage.
1:36.5	Skillfully weaving excerpts from emails and video clips from the testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.
1:42.3	In what seemed to many like a master class in oral argument.
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