Trump's impeachment trial begins

1 big thing

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

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Former President Trump’s second impeachment trial began yesterday with Senators voting that the trial is constitutional and can proceed. What clues does Tuesday give us for the rest of the trial? Plus, 33 states are proposing stricter voting restrictions. And, the United Arab Emirates joins the Mars Club with a mission that's hopeful for all Arab nations. Guests: Axios' Alayna Treene, Russell Contreras and Miriam Kramer. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Carol Wu, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Trump's 2nd impeachment trial recap, day 1: Senate votes trial is constitutional Dozens of states see new voter suppression proposals The new Mars club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today. We've made it to Wednesday. It's February 10th. I'm Nila Boone.
0:09.6	Here's how we're making use smarter today. 33 states are proposing stricter voting restrictions.
0:15.8	Plus, the United Arab Emirates joins the Mars Club. But first, today's one big thing is Trump's
0:21.9	impeachment. What day one means for the rest of the trial.
0:25.0	Former President Trump's second impeachment trial began yesterday. Axios' Elena Trin was
0:34.5	watching from the upstairs of a Senate gallery. Hi, Elena. Hi, Nila. Elena, I think the most
0:39.7	important part of this is the vote that the trial is constitutional and can proceed. And we saw
0:44.8	six Republicans join 50 Democrats in saying that. Does this automatically mean those six Republicans
0:50.9	may also vote to convict President Trump? It doesn't. Although it is a good indication,
0:56.5	it doesn't mean that they will vote to convict. The managers who deliver it a very powerful and
1:02.6	emotional presentation during their opening arguments, they succeeded in swaying at least one more
1:09.2	Republican Senator, Senator Bo Cassidy to vote that the trial is constitutional and should move
1:15.5	forward. So that does show that there was some sort of movement and persuasion on behalf of the
1:20.0	managers. Elena, you mentioned Senator Cassidy. He's from Louisiana. He said he joined also the
1:27.3	vote that the trial should proceed because he thought Trump's defense was, quote, disorganized.
1:32.9	What does the way the defense presented yesterday tell us about how they may proceed with this trial?
1:39.6	The former president's defense team knows that they don't need to go all out here and
1:46.2	convince everyone. They have a very small margin of people that they're looking at and really
1:51.2	Republicans in general most likely are going to vote to acquit President Trump. So all they really
1:56.7	need to do is cross their teeth and dot their eyes and do enough to allow Republican lawmakers
2:02.5	to point to the justification for why they might choose to acquit the president.
2:06.8	We saw, as you said, some strong emotion and powerful videos of the events on January 6.
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