Sources: Trump unhappy with lawyer’s performance on first day of trial

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Sources tell CNN former Pres. Trump was unhappy with his attorney Brian Castor’s opening argument on the Senate floor during the first day of his second impeachment trial but Castor said “I thought we had a good day.” Six GOP senators joined the Democrats to vote that the impeachment trial is constitutional, including Sen. Bill Cassidy who said he made his decision after Trump’s legal team failed to make a compelling argument. Rep. Adam Kinzinger was one of ten House Republicans to cross party lines and vote to impeach then-President Trump. He tells Anderson Cooper he thinks Trump “bears serious responsibility for what we saw on the 6th and not just the speech that day. It’s the four years of building the ground work leading up to that.” Plus, a GOP senator says a number of their Republican colleagues not only universally believed that the former President’s attorneys were awful during their opening arguments but added “no wonder why the other guys quit.” George Conway is a conservative lawyer, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and has been a staunch critic of Trump. He joins AC360 to discuss Trump’s legal team and to explain why he says these lawyers were “terrible.” Airdate: February 9, 2021 Guests: Rep. Adam Kinzinger George Conway To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, what a day.
0:02.6	Today stands alone in American history.
0:05.0	Only three presidents, as you know, have ever been impeached.
0:09.0	Only one has been impeached twice, and today his second trial began.
0:13.1	It takes place at a crime scene, and that too is the first.
0:16.2	The first impeachment trial involving the direct loss of human life, the first of an ex-president,
0:21.3	the only American president ever to refuse to recognize or respect the outcome of a free
0:26.0	and fair election.
0:27.4	The only trial ever spurred on by an insurrection incited on national television by the defendant.
0:33.5	On that day, with blood in the halls of the United States Capitol, the defendant, after praising
0:37.6	the attackers, expressing his love for them, told us all to, quote, remember this day forever.
0:42.9	Well, history already has.
0:45.1	Yet a pillar of the defense argument is that it's better to forget, healthier for the country
0:49.0	and that it's not even constitutional to have a trial.
0:51.8	44 Republicans agreed.
0:53.9	The sixth joined Democrats in rejecting today's motion to dismiss.
0:57.8	That's how the day ended.
0:59.1	Begin with House managers using conservative legal arguments to bolster their constitutional
1:03.6	case and playing a powerful video of the insurrection itself.
1:08.0	Make perhaps the best argument yet for conviction first and remembering always.
1:12.3	We'll talk about it tonight with the best legal and political minds that we know George
1:15.8	Conway joins us along with Republican Congressman Adam Kinziger.
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