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The ex-president’s defense

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Former president Donald Trump plans his impeachment defense. Why a new vaccine could be a game-changer. And, the owl pellet economy.

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Trump’s legal team unravels as the former president sticks to his script on his false claims of having won the 2020 presidential election. Reporter Josh Dawsey reports on what this means for the impeachment trial.

Carolyn Y. Johnson breaks down the single-shot coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.

Christopher Ingraham’s kids loved dissecting owl pellets. The reporter took note and found out more about the owl pellet economy.

Transcript

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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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