White house legal team finishes presentation; White house legal team finishes presentation; Trump legal team source: Can't say if they have been briefed on Bolton manuscript;

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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White house legal team finishes presentation; Trump's ex-chief of staff: "I believe Bolton"; Trump's lawyer: Allegations from Bolton book "Inadmissible"; Pressure for witness grows after Bolton bombshell; Source: Trump pleased with his defense team's presentation; Trump praises Pompeo amid clash with NPR reporters; Palestinians reject Trump middle east peace plan; Witness testimony in limbo as Trump trial enters new phase; GOP senators huddle after Trump lawyers conclude arguments; White house legal team finishes presentation; Trump legal team source: Can't say if they have been briefed on Bolton manuscript; GOP senators huddle on possible witnesses in trial; Five confirmed coronavirus cases in United States; CDC expands airports screening for virus from five to 20; China: 4,610 confirmed coronavirus cases, 106 deaths; All nine bodies recovered from Kobe Bryant crash site; new video shows Bryant helicopter shortly before crash;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Wolf Litter in the situation room. We're following the Trump impeachment trial.
0:11.0	The Trump legal team just wrapping up three days laying out their case and
0:14.9	now a critical and very crucial unpredictable Lou phase as Senators way
0:20.0	whether to hear from witnesses specifically
0:22.6	former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
0:25.2	As most Republican senators resist calling Bolton to testify,
0:29.0	former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly now says he believes Bolton who claims in his draft book
0:34.8	manuscript that President Trump told him A. to Ukraine was conditioned on
0:39.3	investigations into his political rivals including the Biden's.
0:44.0	We'll talk about that and more this hour of Senator Rant Paul is standing by to join us and
0:48.2	our correspondence and analysts are also with us.
0:51.4	First let's go straight to our chief White House correspondent Jim
0:54.7	Acosta Jim critical new developments in the president's impeachment trial.
0:58.4	That's right well if the president's legal team has wrapped up their presentation
1:02.4	at Mr. Trump's trial.
1:03.4	The President's lawyers took aim at the unpublished book from former National Security
1:07.2	Advisor John Bolton calling an inadmissible.
1:10.4	Aise to the President are nervous about the prospect of Bolton testifying at the
1:14.2	trial and are warning GOP senators that a nasty court fight over witnesses
1:18.6	could last for months but there is one former Trump administration official
1:22.4	who believes Bolton's voice
1:24.0	should be heard and that is former chief of staff, John Kelly.
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