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It's Tuesday, January 20.

Today, who's paying for Trump's defense lawyers?

Maduro's hold on Venezuela and the branding genius of K-Pop Group BTS.

The Senate will convene as a court of impeachment. The chaplain will lead us in prayer.

Trump's defense lawyers finished their opening arguments today in the Senate impeachment trial.

Just to give you a very quick brief overview of today, we do not intend to use much of that time today, Mr. Chief Justice.

We intend to be our goals to be finished by dinner time and well before. We'll have three presentations.

There wasn't much new information in what his lawyer said.

In our presentation so far, you've now heard from legal scholars from a variety of schools of thought,

from a variety of political backgrounds. But they do have a common theme with a dire warning.

Danger. Danger. Danger. To lower the bar of impeachment.

The lawyers played clips of what Democrats said during the Clinton impeachment.

There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment,

or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other.

Future presidents will face election, then litigation, then impeachment.

The power of the president will diminish in the face of the Congress,

a phenomenon much feared by the founding fathers.

I expect history will show that we've lowered the bar on impeachment so much.

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