How Do Election Polls Work?

How Do Election Polls Work?

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Witness Vote Fails, But Impeachment Trial Stretches To Next Week

Witness Vote Fails, But Impeachment Trial Stretches To Next Week

The Senate adjourned for the weekend, but the impeachment trial of President Trump is not over. Senators voted not to hear from new witnesses on Friday — a move Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it...

1 Feb 202014min

Questions of Foreign Interference Continue as Trial Moves Closer to Vote on Witnesses

Questions of Foreign Interference Continue as Trial Moves Closer to Vote on Witnesses

Close to a vote on whether to include witnesses, the White House legal team continued to defend its argument that the president sometimes has authority to ask foreign powers to investigate political r...

31 Jan 202015min

Trump Legal Team Says Quid Pro Quo In Pursuit Of Reelection Isn't Impeachable

Trump Legal Team Says Quid Pro Quo In Pursuit Of Reelection Isn't Impeachable

The point was made by Alan Dershowitz, one of the president's attorneys: "If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of q...

30 Jan 202012min

President's Defense Team Concludes Arguments in Impeachment Trial

President's Defense Team Concludes Arguments in Impeachment Trial

President Trump's impeachment defense team concluded their arguments with time to spare Tuesday. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstructio...

28 Jan 202013min

John Bolton Casts Shadow Over Trump Impeachment Defense

John Bolton Casts Shadow Over Trump Impeachment Defense

As President Trump's legal team continues their case for acquittal, a report in The New York Times about an alleged conversation between Trump and Bolton — contained in a draft of the former national ...

28 Jan 202014min

Trump's Legal Team Begins Impeachment Defense, Says The President Did 'Nothing Wrong'

Trump's Legal Team Begins Impeachment Defense, Says The President Did 'Nothing Wrong'

President Trump "did absolutely nothing wrong," White House counsel Pat Cipollone said Saturday, as lawyers representing the president got their first shot to poke holes in the impeachment case made t...

25 Jan 202013min

Weekly Roundup: Friday, January 24

Weekly Roundup: Friday, January 24

Democratic impeachment managers conclude their opening arguments Friday night in the Senate Impeachment trial. The president's defense team begins their arguments Saturday morning, a timeslot Presiden...

25 Jan 202027min

A Few Republicans And The American Public: Democrats Target Their Impeachment Message

A Few Republicans And The American Public: Democrats Target Their Impeachment Message

On the second day of their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial, Democratic managers honed their case. They hope to persuade a narrow band of Republican senators to support the introducti...

24 Jan 202014min

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