The ex-president’s defense
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu, Aurora Niko with the Washington Post. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me the post. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Peter J. This is from the Washington Post. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Post Reports. I'm our team powers. |
| 0:20.0 | It's Monday, February 1st. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, the shake-up in the former president's legal team. |
| 0:28.0 | Why a new vaccine could be a game changer? |
| 0:31.0 | And what's in an outpeel it? |
| 0:37.0 | Last weekend, the Warriors who were supposed to represent former president Trump in the impeachment trial |
| 0:42.0 | parted ways with the president laid on a Saturday night. |
| 0:48.0 | Josh Tassie reports on politics for the post. |
| 0:51.0 | He had a simple team of five Warriors from South Carolina with the help of Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of his. |
| 0:58.0 | But the president and the Warriors apparently splintered on the strategy for the upcoming trial. |
| 1:03.0 | And on Saturday night, the former president's office put out a statement saying they would no longer be representing him |
| 1:09.0 | and they would be looking for new Warriors. |
| 1:11.0 | And then last night, the former president announced two new Warriors. |
| 1:17.0 | So I think having a change up in your legal team a week before the impeachment trial is, I would say, a bad sign. |
| 1:25.0 | But what do we know about why they parted ways? |
| 1:28.0 | Like what this difference in strategy was that was so enormous that it meant that five of the former president's lawyers decided to quit? |
| 1:36.0 | The certainly more of a story to come out. |
| 1:38.0 | But the former president and his team of Warriors, |
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