Trump on trial: Is the end near?

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🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Nerdcast goes daily with short episodes providing the most crucial Senate impeachment trial updates with a stable of POLITICO reporters and editors. Today: senate reporter Marianne LeVine gives Scott the low-down from today's Q&A session on the Hill. Plus, White House reporter Nancy Cook takes the 30-second challenge. Join us for a daily look at impeachment in under 10 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Senate will conduct another question and answer
0:02.9	period today. We were able to get through nearly a hundred
0:06.6	questions yesterday. Nearly a hundred questions yesterday, a hundred questions yesterday. A hundred questions yesterday.
0:15.0	Nerd-Casters.
0:19.0	We've heard a lot of questions so far from the Senators,
0:22.0	some good, some bad, some Chief Justice John
0:24.7	Roberts wouldn't even read. The presiding officer declines to read the question as
0:29.4	submitted. But the big question is still looming, are there the votes for witnesses to be called tomorrow?
0:35.0	Or is this impeachment trial ending by the weekend?
0:38.0	We're taping this at about 4 p.m. today.
0:40.0	And here to crunch what happened in today's impeachment trial into 30 seconds is White House reporter
0:45.6	Extraordinair Nancy Cook.
0:47.0	All right, ready, set.
0:50.0	Oh, ha ha ha ha! Let's try that one more time.
0:55.0	Nancy, 30 seconds, go.
0:58.0	So today's the last day of the questioning in the Senate impeachment trial
1:02.0	and there's a few things happening.
1:04.0	One, Senator Rand Paul keeps trying to get the name of the whistleblower into the record
1:09.6	and Justice Roberts isn't having it.
1:11.8	Two, Republicans it looks like are not going to have
1:14.2	enough votes to call witnesses. They want the trial to be over and three,
1:18.1	Democrats want to extend the trial as the Trump is not necessarily acquitted on Friday or Saturday and they might do
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