White House team calls impeachment process a "charade", urges Senate GOP to dismiss case against Trump quickly; First vote on trial rules and witnesses expected tomorrow; Trump lawyer criticized for shifting stance in impeachment; Senate releases text of

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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House Democrats: Trump's assertions about impeachment articles "Chilling, dead wrong"; House impeachment managers, Trump lawyers do walkthrough od Senate ahead of trial; Trump lawyers: trump asking Ukraine to investigate 2016 election was in America's "national interest"; Trump distracted by impeachment trial, asks associates "why are they doing this to me"; GOP's Graham: Trump hopes to have trial over by State of the Union address; Trump lawyer in 1998: It "doesn't have to be a crime" to impeach; Nadler: "Ample evidence...any jury would convict in three minutes flat"; Schiff: National Security Agency is withholding Ukraine documents from Congress ahead of trial; Democrats angry resolution detailing trial procedures has not been released yet; White House legal team slams Trump impeachment as "a dangerous perversion of the Constitution"; Trump legal team: He "Should immediately be acquitted"; CNN Poll: 69% say Senate trial should include witnesses; CNN Poll: 51% say Trump should be removed; 45% say no; Proposed Senate rules: Each side will have 24 hours over two days to present its case;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	Happening now, a charade.
0:03.0	President Trump's legal team submits a lengthy brief to the Senate,
0:07.0	blasting the articles of impeachment, calling them invalid in a charade,
0:11.0	the process deeply flawed and urging senators to reject the case quickly.
0:15.4	Crime committed?
0:17.4	One of the president's most high-profile lawyers is forced to defend himself on whether
0:21.3	a crime is necessary for impeachment.
0:24.0	He didn't think it was when Bill Clinton was impeached.
0:27.8	Impeachment poll, about half of Americans now
0:30.4	say the Senate should vote to convict President Trump and remove him from office
0:35.1	in our exclusive new CNN poll that's just been released.
0:39.1	And Senate rules.
0:40.5	We're looking at the arcane rules of a presidential impeachment trial governing
0:44.8	what senators can and can't do during the proceeding that starts tomorrow.
0:49.4	I'm Will Flitzer, you're in the situation room. On the eve of President Trump's historic trial,
1:01.0	as lawyers are calling on senators to swiftly reject the two impeachment
1:05.0	articles the House filed against him.
1:07.4	In a brief submitted to the Senate, they call the case flimsy in the process a charade. Meanwhile, House Democrats are responding to this
1:15.0	weekend's White House impeachment brief saying that President Trump's
1:18.5	assertion that the impeachment articles are constitutionally invalid is
1:22.8	invalid, is, quote, chilling and dead wrong.
1:26.0	And Democrats are angry that the resolution detailing
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