Trump on trial: the defense rests

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Nerdcast goes daily with short episodes providing the most crucial impeachment trial updates with a stable of POLITICO reporters and editors. Today: founding editor John Harris gives Scott a high-altitude view of the impeachment trial: surprises, quirks, and memories of his reporting during President Clinton's Senate impeachment trial. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Thank you again for your attention. I look forward to answering your questions and with that that
0:08.0	ends our presentation.
0:10.6	And with that, that starts our presentation.
0:16.0	Nurd Kasters, today was the seventh day of the Senate impeachment trial,
0:20.0	and we all know what happens on the seventh day.
0:23.0	The defense rests.
0:26.0	It was a light day today.
0:28.0	President Trump's legal defense team presented the end of their case.
0:31.0	It was over by about 3 p.m. They used significantly less than the 24
0:36.6	hours that they were allotted to present their case and now they're done. We're taping this at
0:41.8	about 4 p.m. today.
0:43.1	There's still several big questions hanging over what might happen in the next couple days.
0:47.6	But first, as always, we're going to crunch what happened today into 30 seconds with White
0:52.3	House reporter Nancy Cook.
0:54.0	I'm sorry, can we start again?
0:56.7	And go.
0:59.7	White House lawyers really took a third day to day
1:02.2	to make the argument that Trump shouldn't be
1:03.8	impeached both to let the temperature cool down in the Senate a bit after all of
1:09.2	the debate yesterday about whether or not they should call witnesses and also
1:12.4	basically to give an
1:13.5	extra day to say that John Bolton's comments about the president and his
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from POLITICO, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of POLITICO and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.