The Latest: ‘Let Us Begin’

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial are underway. For House impeachment managers, that means an opportunity to formally make their case, uninterrupted, for three straight days. For President Trump’s lawyers and Republican allies, that means three straight days of sitting in the Senate chamber, bound by a vow of silence. “The Latest” is a series on the impeachment process, from the team behind “The Daily.” You can find more information about it here.

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0:25.6	Here we go, here we go.
0:34.1	All persons are commanded to keep silent on paying of imprisonment.
0:37.6	The Senate will receive the managers of the House of Representatives to exhibit the articles
0:43.2	of impeachment against Donald John Trump, President of the United States.
0:49.6	We have some very long days yet to come.
0:52.7	So let us begin.
0:57.3	Hey, it's Julie Davis in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times.
1:00.8	So today was the first big day in the impeachment trial in the Senate.
1:04.9	The first of three days in which representatives from the House, these are the impeachment
1:08.6	managers, will deliver their opening arguments for a total of 24 hours straight.
1:14.6	Ever since December, with the impeachment vote in the House, the focus has been on what
1:18.8	the trial would actually look like in the Senate, what the process would be.
1:22.8	Now it's actually happening.
1:24.5	They are making their case.
1:26.5	And this has kind of been the nightmare for President Trump that Democrats would have
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