Trump on Trial (Again)
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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4.6 • 43.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As if we rolled the tape back 12 months, the Trump impeachment trial is underway, and Michael Knowles is joined by Senator Ted Cruz to break it all down. Is there a legal argument for removal? Is it constitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former president? Plus, we get an answer to perhaps the most important question of all—how’s the food in the Senate cafeteria?
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| 0:00.0 | The first day of former President Trump's impeachment trial has just come to a close, and we are |
| 0:05.5 | joined here by one of the jurors to help us break it all down. |
| 0:09.4 | This is verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:17.3 | I think I've heard it before. |
| 0:19.6 | I think I've said it before, maybe almost exactly a year ago on the very first episode of |
| 0:24.2 | this show. |
| 0:25.2 | Is that not word for word verbatim exactly how verdict began? |
| 0:29.9 | It is because you know, Senator, it would seem that we are just stuck, suspended in mid-air |
| 0:35.4 | in this country. |
| 0:36.8 | Nothing is changing. |
| 0:37.8 | I have to tell you, when we started this show, it was because the first time I'm going |
| 0:43.0 | to start singing, I got you, babe. |
| 0:45.7 | I was just going to keep on and on. |
| 0:49.4 | When we first started this, I had no idea really what was at play in that first impeachment |
| 0:54.1 | trial. |
| 0:55.1 | It seems clear cut compared to this second sort of impeachment trial. |
| 1:00.0 | I guess the biggest question on people's minds is, is this even an impeachment trial? |
| 1:05.8 | Because obviously Trump is not the president anymore. |
| 1:08.4 | You were there all day. |
| 1:09.4 | We are doing exactly what we did a year ago. |
| 1:11.8 | We're here in the middle of the night. |
| 1:14.1 | You've just left the Capitol. |
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