Trump attorney Jay Sekulow says 'the trial of the leader of the free world and the duly elected President of the United States' is one of the most 'solemn of duties' and 'it is not a game of leaks and unsourced manuscripts. That's politics, unfortunately.'
Trump legal team concludes opening arguments in impeachment trial: ABC News LiveTrump legal team wraps opening arguments at Senate impeachment trial
The next phase of the trial -- in which senators will submit questions to both sides for up to 16 hours -- is expected to begin Wednesday, according to White House sources and Senate aides. After that, a key point in the trial -- a Senate vote on whether to consider new witnesses and other evidence -- could come as early as Friday.
So, for example, is there supposed to be one set of rules for executive privilege and classified information for Senate presidential impeachment trials only and one set of rules for everything else? There are some real practical challenges that start to crop up pretty quickly.” Some of the concern is abated by addressing this in a classified setting but to put it mildly, the administration wouldn’t trust that the information would stay classified.That’s why they handled it very carefully on the Senate floor, versus the speculation in the media.
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin presents opening arguments during impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump at the Capitol, Jan. 28, 2020Philbin also asks,"How do we tell what an illicit motive is? How do we get inside the president's head?" regarding what he says are Trump's lawful actions on their face.
“This at least allows people to reach a decision based on facts that they can actually read in the manuscript,” Lankford says. "I'd like to hear from John Bolton and I think the idea that's been expressed in the media about having each side be able to choose a witness or maybe more than one witness on a paired basis, it has some merit," Romney tells reporters.
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