Pres. Trump's legal team took to the Senate floor on Saturday to argue against the case made by the House impeachment managers over the past three days.
Trump's lawyers argue the charges are not impeachable, raise the BidensPresident Donald Trump's legal team Saturday took to the Senate floor to argue against the case made by the HouseThe president’s lawyers also will have 24 hours over three days to persuade senators that the articles of impeachment charged -- abuse of power and obstruction of Congress -- do not amount to impeachable offenses.
Sekulow has said his team plans to save the bulk of their defense for their second day of arguments on Monday. He was accompanied by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other White House lawyers on Saturday in an abbreviated session that lasted only about two hours.Sekulow's comment came on the heels of a tweet by Trump equating Saturdays to “Death Valley in T.V.”, signaling that he doesn't want his lawyers to deliver the case on Saturday when fewer people might be watching.
Deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin begins by talking about"issues related to obstruction and due process," outlining what he says are errors with the process in which the House handled the impeachment inquiry. In this image from video, White House deputy counsel Patrick Philbin speaks during the impeachment trial against Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 25, 2020.
“We know from a letter that the inspector general of the intelligence community sent that he thought that the whistleblower had political bias,” Philbin says.ABC News’ Senior Congressional Correspondent Mary Bruce reports from inside the Senate Chamber: On the Republican side, the president's allies look quite pleased. Lots of nodding and a few smirks Sens. Graham and Ernst. Sen. Wicker laughed out loud when Purpura alleged it was a"quid pro quo without a quo."
In this image from video, personal attorney to President Donald Trump, Jay Sekulow, speaks in defense of President Trump during his impeachment trial in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 25, 2020."Let me begin by saying that you cannot simply decide this case in a vacuum. Mr. Schiff said yesterday -- I believe it was his father who said -- you should put yourself in someone else's shoes.
Sekulow also walks through President Trump's foreign policy toward other countries, attempting to show Ukraine was not treated any differently from others under Trump's foreign policy focused on"burden-sharing." Purpura homes in on comments made by Timothy Morrison, the former National Security Council Russia Director Republicans called to testify in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry.
“The Democrats entire quid pro quo theory is based on nothing more than the initial speculation of one person. Ambassador Sondland. That speculation is wrong,” Purpura says, referring to the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland who has testified he was in direct contact with President Trump about the Ukraine aid matter.
In this screengrab, Deputy White House Counsel Mike Purpura speaks in the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol during President Trump's impeachment trial on Jan. 25, 2020 in Washington. "They come here to the Senate and they ask you, remove a president, tear up the ballots in all of your states, and they don't bother to read the key evidence of the discussion of burden-sharing that's in the call itself. Now, that's emblematic of their entire presentation," Cipollone says."They have the burden of proof. And they have not come close to meeting it."
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