Senate Trial Opens With Democrats' Appeal to Remove Trump
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
House impeachment managers, led by California Democrat Adam Schiff, presented their case against President Trump, based on evidence gathered during the hearings in the House late last year.
This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and Justice Department reporter Ryan Lucas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Asma Khalid, I'm covering the presidential campaign. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 0:09.6 | And I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:11.8 | All right, well, it is currently 7 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, January 22. |
| 0:17.5 | The impeachment trial of President Trump is still underway as we record this podcast, |
| 0:22.0 | this afternoon just around 1 o'clock Eastern time that trial officially got underway. |
| 0:26.6 | And today was a chance for Democrats to lay out their case for removing President Trump |
| 0:30.5 | from office. |
| 0:31.5 | If there is no objection, the journal of proceedings of the trial are approved today. |
| 0:35.8 | The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, is the lead house manager in |
| 0:39.8 | this trial. |
| 0:40.8 | And he started his remarks today with a reference to the really long hours yesterday. |
| 0:45.2 | It was an exhausting day for us, certainly. |
| 0:48.2 | But we have adrenaline going through our veins. |
| 0:50.9 | And for those that are required to sit and listen, it is a much more difficult |
| 0:56.6 | task. |
| 0:57.6 | And of course, we know our positions. |
| 1:00.0 | You have the added difficulty of having to weigh the facts and the laws. |
| 1:04.4 | So I want to begin today by thanking you for the conduct of the proceedings yesterday. |
| 1:11.1 | Adam Schiff was doing a little bit of cleanup for his buddy, Jerry Nandler, the chairman |
| 1:14.9 | of the House Judiciary Committee, who in the early hours of the morning last night, |
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