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Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s speech in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, considered one of the possible swing votes in the Trump impeachment trial, announced on the Senate floor Monday night that she “cannot vote to convict” Trump. Murkowski, whose comments closed out a day of …
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s speech in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, said House Democrats rushed the process: ““They’ve asked us to ignore how quickly they moved to impeach President Trump and to not compare their timeline to the timelines from the Nixon or Clinton impeachments,” …
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Sen. Chuck Grassley’s speech in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube In an address on the Senate floor, Grassley criticized the House’s flawed process and evolving arguments, and expressed the importance of respecting precedent. Removing a president for legal actions based on a flawed and partisan process, especially in the …
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Pat Cipollone’s closing arguments in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube White House counsel Pat Cipollone first expressed gratitude to the Chief Justice, the Senate leaders and senators on both sides of the aisle, as well as his defense team. Cipollone asks the Senators to have confidence in the American …
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Jay Sekulow’s closing arguments in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube Sekulow says he wants to emphasize that both articles fail to allege impeachable offenses and must fail. He said that the partisan impeachment process that should never happen again. He said the push for impeachment came from the president’s …
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Patrick Philbin’s closing arguments in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube While Democrats claimed that an acquittal would place the president above the law, deputy counsel to the president Patrick Philbin noted that “the House of Representatives is also not above the law.” Philbin described the beginnings of the impeachment …
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Mike Purpura’s closing arguments in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube Mike Purpura, deputy White House counsel, told the Senate Trump did nothing wrong in his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and noted comments from Zelenskiy that he never felt any pressure to investigate the Bidens.…
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Ken Starr’s closing arguments in Senate Trump impeachment trial (Feb 3, 2020)
youtube Ken Starr said Democrats had not followed the rules and precedents around impeachment. Starr compared this alleged failure to follow the rules by the House of Representatives to two cheating scandals that roiled American professional sports in recent years.…
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Three unexpected momments from Chief Justice Roberts during Senate impeachment trial
youtube on Jan. 31, 2020, Chief Justice John Roberts said it would be “inappropriate” for him to break any 50-50 tie votes during the Trump impeachment trial. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked presiding officer Chief Justice John Roberts …
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Trump lawyers Sekulow & Philbin argued against calling witnesses in Senate impeachment trial (Jan 31, 2020)
youtube Trump’s legal team used just 27 minutes of their two hours allotted. This compressed version is only 20 minutes after removal of silences and pauses. Note that the Senate voted later not to call any witnesses. The president’s defense …