Trump team concludes, focus shifts to witness fight; Ernst comments on Biden echo 2015 McCarthy on Benghazi; Trump reveals peace plan alongside indicted Israeli PM; New video shows Bryant's helicopter moments before crash;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So how long can senators ignore that 500 pound white mustache in the room? The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.0 | President Trump's defense rests and some Republicans get rest less and move closer to wanting key evidence that could |
| 0:14.1 | be the smoking gun in the Ukraine scandal. |
| 0:16.1 | As the President's form of Chief of Staff, John Kelly says, I believe Bolton. |
| 0:21.6 | The impeached President and the indicted Prime Minister, their big plan unveiled for peace in the Middle East, and the response just in from the Palestinians, quote, |
| 0:28.0 | No, no, a big no. And new details on the crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others, |
| 0:36.4 | the special permission given to his pilot just moments before the chopper went down in flames. politics lead today the Trump defense team wrapping up their opening arguments |
| 0:53.6 | making the case that a duly elected president should not be removed from |
| 0:57.5 | office especially so close to an election and that this all boils down to mere policy differences. |
| 1:04.0 | Tomorrow the Trump impeachment trial will pick back up with 16 hours allotted in total for the |
| 1:08.8 | President's defense team and the Democratic House impeachment managers |
| 1:12.3 | to answer any questions submitted by U.S. Senators. |
| 1:15.6 | But from there, the next steps are unclear. |
| 1:18.2 | The trajectory of the trial has been upended after new revelations from John Bolton's forthcoming book that Trump explicitly called for a quid pro quo, |
| 1:26.0 | security aid for Ukraine in exchange for them investigating Democrats. |
| 1:30.1 | Now Trump denies it, but Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly said, quote, |
| 1:35.0 | I believe John Bolton. |
| 1:36.6 | The majority of Americans would like to hear the whole story, Kelly said. |
| 1:40.0 | So I think if there are people that could contribute to this, |
| 1:42.4 | either innocence or guilt, I think if there are people that could contribute to this either innocence or guilt I think they should be heard unquote and as |
| 1:46.4 | CNN Sarah Murray reports it seems more possible than ever that four Republicans will break from their |
| 1:51.6 | pack and vote to hear from additional |
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