Good evening at the end of the working Saturday in the impeachment trial of President

Trump.

Day one of the president's defense and in a moment we'll hear what one advocate for

the president who's yet to speak will tell the Senate.

As for today, as work days go, it was by design a short run about two hours from start to

finish this morning, lawyers for the defense with White House counsel Pat Sublone leading

the charge, arguing that Democrats have failed to meet the burden of proof for removing

a president from office.

He also accused the House managers of trying to overturn the last election and derail the

next.

They're asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative.

Take that decision away from the American people.

They're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history.

And we can't allow that to happen.

The president said did nothing wrong, including in the call with Ukraine's president, which

the president says was perfect in which Sublone's deputy described this way.

The transcript shows that the president did not condition either security assistance

or a meeting on anything.

The paused security assistance funds aren't even mentioned on the call.

Well, the defense also argued that the president was legitimately interested in fighting corruption

in Ukraine, though there's little evidence to support that apart from his interest in

the Biden's who were barely mentioned in this morning's presentation.

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