Trump on trial: Un-Schiff-ting strategy

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

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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: Ben Weyl talks Adam Schiff's background and strategy. 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	Hello, NurdCasters. It was a biggie day in the Senate, not a small one.
0:07.0	The moment of the impeachment trial last night that captured the Internet,
0:12.0	Trump attorney Jay Seckelow asked,
0:14.6	Why are we here?
0:15.9	Congressman Hakim Jeffrey's quoting Biggie Smalls
0:18.6	on the floor of the Senate.
0:19.8	We are here, sir, to follow the facts, apply to law, be guided by the Constitution, and present
0:28.4	the truth to the American people.
0:32.4	That is why we are here, Mr Seculo, and if you don't know, now you know.
0:37.0	And if you don't know, now you know.
0:41.0	Now you know.
0:48.0	Today is the second day of the House impeachment managers presenting their case to the Senate. We're taping this at 4 PM today.
0:50.0	Trial still going on, will be till the evening.
0:52.0	But first, here's what happened
0:54.4	today so far in 30 seconds. Ben are you ready to take the 30 second challenge?
0:59.6	You tell me when to start. Go.
1:02.1	Democrats tried to make the case today that Donald
1:05.8	Trump's offenses in the Ukraine saga rose to the level of removal of office
1:10.9	under the Constitution. They're trying to prove that in abusing his power
1:16.1	by pressuring the Ukrainian government into securing an investigation from Joe Biden and
1:22.1	his political rivals, that it's an abuse of
1:24.8	abuse of power so great that he must be removed under the Constitution's
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