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The Senate reconvened Thursday afternoon for the historic trial — only the third against a sitting president.
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 The White House refused to provide documents to a nonpartisan congressional watchdog investigating President Donald Trump's decision to withhold US security aid to Ukraine, according to documents released by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland on Thursday.
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"The American people deserve a president they can count on to put their interests first," the House impeachment manager argued at Trump's Senate trial.
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The House impeachment managers sought to undercut the central elements of President Trump's defense, wading into a detailed defense of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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White House advisers warned Trump that outreach would not help his cause, while Democrats say there is no serious effort to privately lobby the key Republicans.
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Thursday played a 1999 video of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham arguing that "high crimes" don't "even need to be a crime," a statement that runs counter to a central Republican talking point in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
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According to documents released on Thursday, the White House declined to respond when a watchdog pressed the administration for details on the decision to withhold security aid to Ukraine.
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 On the second day of House Democrats laying out their case in the U.S. Senate for removing President Donald Trump, there was little sign on Thursday that their arguments had changed any minds among Republican senators who control the chamber.
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The House impeachment managers sought to undercut the central elements of President Trump's defense, wading into a detailed defense of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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The Democrats' counsel flagged to the U.S. Court of Appeals comments made during the impeachment trial.
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 Fox NewsHours after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) questioned Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's patriotism, Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) called on the National Security Council official and Purple Heart recipient to be booted from his position and "go work in Ukraine."
During a broadcast that largely ignored the live impeachment proceedings taking place, Carlson devoted an "investigative" segment to the Iraq War veteran after House impeachment managers referenced Vindman's testimony throughout Thursday's Senate trial. Why, Carlson asked, was Vindman still serving on the White House National Security Council as a Ukraine and Russia expert?
Before bringing Nunes on his primetime show Thursday night, the Fox News star complained that Vindman testified against his boss and acknowledged that "a foreign power keeps trying to recruit him," wondering "how could someone like that keep his job."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Caroline Brehman/GettyAbout four hours into Thursday's session of the Senate impeachment trial, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the House's lead impeachment manager, had yet another video clip queued up to show senators in order to help make Democrats' case for President Trump's removal.
Taking full advantage of their video privileges, the impeachment managers had played dozens of such clips since opening their arguments in the trial on Wednesday. But when Schiff tried to show a segment of White House aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's testimony, it didn't work.
Sensing technical difficulties, Schiff offered a joke. "We've heard enough of Col. Vindman," he quipped, before pressing on. For some of the Republicans sitting in the chamber, however, the joke couldn't have been truer: Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa nodded at Schiff's crack, glancing conspiratorially at her neighbor, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Barred so far from presenting witnesses, the House managers prosecuting the president have focused on turning his own words against him.
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The House managers walked the Senate jury through the constitutional and historical basis for the president's impeachment.
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