The Impeachment Trial Begins

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🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The impeachment trial of President Trump begins this morning. Today, we answer all of your questions about what will happen next — including how it will work and what is likely to happen. Guest: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The House’s long-anticipated vote to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate fell largely along party lines, setting the stage for what promises to be a fiercely partisan trial.Here’s a step-by-step guide to the process.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.
0:10.8	Today, the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump begins this afternoon in the Senate.
0:18.5	Nick Fandos, on how it will work.
0:32.2	It's Thursday, January 16th.
0:35.8	Nick Fandos, describe the past 48 hours inside the Capitol. How does it start?
0:44.2	It starts on Tuesday morning when Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who for close to a month now,
0:49.9	has been withholding the articles of impeachment against President Trump from the Senate,
0:55.6	goes down into the basement of the Capitol for a private meeting with all House Democrats.
1:01.3	Speaker walks in and says, guys, finally, the day is here, I'm ready to move forward.
1:06.4	Our break has accomplished what we wanted it to. Additional evidence has come out over the
1:12.0	course of this four weeks. We're going to vote tomorrow on Wednesday to name the team that will
1:19.2	prosecute the case against President Trump and finally move this over to the Senate.
1:24.4	And so that was the state of affairs for most of Tuesday afternoon, but then kind of out of the
1:30.4	middle of nowhere. We've got very big breaking news tonight on the eve of the House vote to send
1:36.1	President Donald Trump's articles and impeachment over the Senate. The House Intelligence Committee,
1:41.1	that committee just released an incredibly incriminating catch of documents from Rudy Giuliani's
1:47.1	indicted associate, Lev Parnas. House Democrats released a new tranche of evidence that they
1:53.8	had just gotten in recent days from Lev Parnas, who was obviously intimately involved in President
2:00.3	Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine to help dig up dirt on his political opponents.
2:05.9	So basically new evidence in an impeachment case after the impeachment has been completed.
2:12.8	That's right. Here was what seems to be meaningful new evidence from a key player in this drama
2:19.0	pouring forward. And what exactly is in these documents from Parnas?
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