Trump adds high profile, controversial picks to defense team; Parnas: Trump tried to fire Ukraine Amb. multiple times; Pentagon now says 11 service members hurt in Jan 8 missile strike; Trump: Impeachment trial is "rigging the election again against Berni

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Sources: House Republicans no longer expected to defend Trump in impeachment trial; Sources: Trial expected to start with contentious day with Democrats trying to force witnesses; Pompeo says State Department will investigate possible surveillance of ex-U.S. Ambassador; Indicted Giuliani associate says he watched Trump order aide to fire U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 2018; Eleven troops being treated for concussion symptoms, transported from Iraq to Germany and Kuwait; Defense Official to CNN: Symptoms emerged days after the attack; Iran's Supreme Leader says U.S. was slapped in the face; Trump: Impeachment trial is "rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders"; Trump knocks Bloomberg campaign Ads as "vanity project"; Biden to NYT Editorial Board: "Not true" I hinted willingness to serve only one term; FBI arrests three alleged white supremacists ahead of gun rights rally in Virginia; New book: Trump "dressed down" top military officials in 2017 meeting, called them losers;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A defense team dynamic duo that kept Jeffrey Epstein out of jail.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	An impeachment defense dream team. President Trump beefs up his dream team.
0:12.8	President Trump beefs up his legal team with names you know from infamous
0:17.0	defendants and from their time on TV. The Pentagon initially said no U.S. troops were hurt by the Iranian missile attack
0:26.2	last week, but since then, new information and several troops medevacked out.
0:31.2	Are they going to be okay and why the discrepancy plus
0:35.6	alleged neo-Nazi's 1500 rounds of ammo and a state of emergency as Virginia officials have nightmares of another Charlottesville.
0:48.4	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:50.1	We begin with the politics lead the impeachment trial of
0:52.7	president Donald Trump the president now has the defense team that he
0:56.4	hopes will get him acquitted and perhaps shift the entire tone of the Senate
1:00.7	trial in addition to his personal attorney Jay Secula and White
1:04.4	House Council Pat Cipollone, President Trump is now adding some high profile
1:08.8	and controversial picks. Some thought Alan Dershooitz who has defended O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein would
1:15.5	prove to controversial even for President Trump, but the Harvard professor will deliver oral arguments
1:22.2	according to the spokesman for the
1:23.5	Trump legal team along with Ken Starr who also helped to defend Epstein
1:27.9	Star of course most notably along with another new Trump defense attorney
1:31.9	Robert Ray were as independent councils making the pro-impeachment
1:37.0	arguments just 21 years ago against Bill Clinton.
1:40.6	It will be interesting to hear Starr make arguments that contradict what he said in the 1990s,
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