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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:56 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators weighing impeachment charges against President Trump spent Thursday firing questions at lawyers as they did the day before, just as the prospect of former national security adviser John Bolton's appearance as a witness continues to stoke speculation. The Senate will enter its next phase Friday — considering whether to allow witnesses and evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president faces two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to accusations that he held up military aid to Ukraine until the country announced investigations into potential political rival former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Thursday, Sen. Susan Collins said she would vote in support of allowing witnesses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1223091529872564225?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats need four Republicans to support their push for witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, days ahead of the caucuses Monday, President Trump took jabs at House Managers prosecuting him over alleged abuse of office and obstruction of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congressional Democrats are consumed with partisan rage and obsessed with a deranged witch hunt hoax,\" said Trump to a booing crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're having probably the best years we've ever had in the history of our country, and I just got impeached. Can you believe these people? I got impeached. They impeached Trump,\" Trump said. \"That's not gonna work. Watch. Just watch,\" Trump said. \"They want to nullify your ballots, poison our democracy and overthrow the entire system of government. That's not happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Roberts Refuses Early Question\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, presiding over the trial, refused to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is believed that Paul's question would have identified the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the House's impeachment investigation of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person's identity is protected by law, and neither Roberts nor Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., want it to be in the official trial record. McConnell had urged senators to be respectful of Roberts, who is supervising the trial as specified in the Constitution while also attempting to keep above the partisan aspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11799022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20030072534176_custom-0e7bb3e33b8f4d60f55a42a8b14525ead67bf69c-e1580402190880.jpg\" alt=\"In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the impeachment trial in the Senate. Schiff's stance is that "you can't have a fair trial without witnesses."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during the impeachment trial in the Senate. Schiff's stance is that \"you can't have a fair trial without witnesses.\" \u003ccite>(Senate Television via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Madness'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>House impeachment manager Adam Schiff, D-Calif., took issue with the wide view of presidential powers put forth by Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question about whether a quid pro quo in the foreign policy arena was ever appropriate, Dershowitz said, \"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Herschmann, Trump's attorney\"]'Maybe we could even get more done. Let's try something different now. Join us. Join us. One nation, one nation, one people.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After wide condemnation by Democrats and on social media, Dershowitz said his comments were misinterpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schiff declared, \"That way madness lies, if we are to accept the president essentially can do whatever he wants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Join Us'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The answer to one question posed by Republican senators must have brought joy to the president's ears. Asked whether the president has the best interests of Americans and their families in mind, Trump attorney Eric Herschmann recited a litany of positive economic statistics in what may have sounded like a Trump reelection ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are more than 7 million jobs created since the election. Illegal border crossings are down 78% since May, and 100 miles of the wall have been built. The unemployment rate is the lowest in 50 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning to the House managers, he concluded, \"Maybe we could even get more done. Let's try something different now. Join us. Join us. One nation, one nation, one people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTn2cc91Sc\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Sen. Warren Considers Chief Justice's Position\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., had a sharply worded question for the House managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff answered by first saying, \"The chief justice has presided admirably.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the country \"does deserve a fair trial,\" which, for Democrats, means calling witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they don't get that fair trial, it will just further a cynicism that is corrosive to this institution and to our democracy,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Acquittal at Hand?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Senate is expected to finish the 16 hours of written questions on Thursday night. On Friday, the Senate is expected to convene at 1 p.m. ET and have up to four hours of debate — equally divided between the managers and president's counsels — on whether to consider more evidence or witness testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is possible that at the end of that debate (or any time during or thereafter), the Senate will go in to closed session for private deliberation on the witness question. Only in closed deliberation can they speak to one another on the floor. There is no time limit for closed deliberations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the motion to consider more evidence is approved — a 51-vote majority is required — then senators can offer motions on which witnesses and documents they want to subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 50-50 tie fails. Technically, the presiding officer, Roberts, could move to break a tie, but he is not expected to insert himself into a political process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the motion fails, there are still any number of procedural motions Democrats could offer, and there is potential for another long series of votes. For example, Democrats could offer motions requesting more time to debate, but these would likely be delaying tactics or protest votes that will not affect the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the lawmakers are done debating all motions, the Senate will then vote on each article of impeachment. Those votes could occur as early as Friday evening. Republicans would like Trump to be acquitted by then, but Democrats are working to recruit enough members to support bringing in witnesses to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That effort is flagging, senators say.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\"]'You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial. You don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The momentum is clearly in the direction of moving to final judgment on Friday,\" said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. \"We still have a couple members who said they want to listen to answers to questions, but that's where the momentum is in the caucus right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried to walk a tightrope when he gave his assessment on the possibility of bringing in witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably no,\" Schumer told reporters on Wednesday. \"But is it a decent, good chance? Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats need to persuade at least four Republicans to cross party lines in order to lock in enough votes to subpoena witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most-discussed potential witness is Bolton, who has drawn attention because of a report in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> that he wrote in a forthcoming book that the president had directly linked the aid for Ukraine to an investigation of the Bidens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking before Thursday's session, Schiff said the Trump administration has \"gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on John Bolton to avoid calling him as a witness, to avoid letting the American people hear what he has to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another House manager, Rep. 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We're going to call witnesses that will turn this into a circus.' It shouldn't be a circus. It should be a fair trial. You can't have a fair trial without witnesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans have been discussing a possible deal involving a witness-for-witness swap, in which Bolton might be exchange for Biden. Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 200 Americans who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, because of the deadly new strain of coronavirus cheered as their plane landed in Alaska late Tuesday. It was a moment of relief and joy, even as health workers rushed to ensure that passengers don’t have the respiratory virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole plane erupted in cheers when the crew said, ‘Welcome home to the United States,’ ” said Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer. She described the scene as “a moving and uplifting experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chartered airliner — a Kalitta Air Boeing 747 — then took off for the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles. It landed shortly after 8 a.m. local time, according to the flight tracking site \u003ca href=\"https://www.flightradar24.com/CKS371/23afe247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flightradar24\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\"]‘Of course, decisions on evacuating citizens is up to the countries. But one thing WHO advises is that they have to prepare themselves if there is importation of cases. So they need to really have a thorough understanding, comprehensive, on their actions.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flight was organized by the U.S. State Department to get diplomats, their families and other Americans out of Wuhan, the city that is the center of the fast-growing outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they headed to California, the 201 passengers onboard had already undergone four health screenings: two in Wuhan before their flight took off, and two after they arrived in Anchorage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passengers were “approved to continue on to California by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services \u003ca href=\"https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AKDHSS/bulletins/278b89c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a news release\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the passengers will be screened once again and “temporarily housed for a period of time,” the Alaska health department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1075px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/wuhan-passenger-cheer-american_wide-9239a69c98167c28a9fcbadff92706a16409232e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1075\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/wuhan-passenger-cheer-american_wide-9239a69c98167c28a9fcbadff92706a16409232e.jpg 1075w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/wuhan-passenger-cheer-american_wide-9239a69c98167c28a9fcbadff92706a16409232e-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/wuhan-passenger-cheer-american_wide-9239a69c98167c28a9fcbadff92706a16409232e-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/wuhan-passenger-cheer-american_wide-9239a69c98167c28a9fcbadff92706a16409232e-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hermione Dickey, 8, and her mother, Priscilla, are among the passengers on a U.S. evacuation flight out of Wuhan, China. She’s seen here during the car ride to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. \u003ccite>(Priscilla Dickey via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The passengers will remain at the March air base for additional screening. While there, they will be cared for by the Department of Health and Human Services. In a statement about their arrival, Department of Defense press secretary Alyssa Farah said, “DoD personnel will not be directly in contact with the evacuees and evacuees will not have access to any base location other than their assigned housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evacuees will be closely monitored for any sign of the coronavirus. If anyone falls ill, they will be taken to a local civilian hospital, Farah added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alaska is proud to do its part in helping our fellow Americans come home safely,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said, applauding the rigorous screenings the passengers underwent. “For our fellow Americans on the airplane, we wish them godspeed as they head to California and ultimately to their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it was first identified in Wuhan last month, the novel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, has killed 132 people, all of them in mainland China. There are currently more than 6,000 confirmed cases, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tracking map\u003c/a> created by the Johns Hopkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the cases also are in China, primarily in Hubei province, where Wuhan has been placed under a virtual lockdown in an attempt to prevent the spread of the virus. But cases of coronavirus have emerged in more than a dozen other countries, including the U.S. and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several international airlines have suspended or reduced flights to China, from British Airways to carriers in South Korea and Indonesia. Kazakhstan has halted all mass transportation — flights, train and buses — to neighboring China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to the U.S. evacuation flight, a Japanese flight from Wuhan landed safely in Tokyo on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, decisions on evacuating citizens is up to the countries,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. “But one thing WHO advises is that they have to prepare themselves if there is importation of cases. So they need to really have a thorough understanding, comprehensive, on their actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC says that while it considers the immediate risk posed by the coronavirus as “low,” travelers should avoid any nonessential travel to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outbreak is growing and there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas,” the CDC said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also recommends\u003c/a> that people take simple steps to reduce the chances of spreading any respiratory illness, such as washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and avoiding close contact with anyone who is sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 804px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM.png 804w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM-160x150.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM-800x749.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of Hong Kong, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ccite>(Map by Daniel Wood/NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the cases also are in China, primarily in Hubei province, where Wuhan has been placed under a virtual lockdown in an attempt to prevent the spread of the virus. But cases of coronavirus have emerged in more than a dozen other countries, including the U.S. and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several international airlines have suspended or reduced flights to China, from British Airways to carriers in South Korea and Indonesia. Kazakhstan has halted all mass transportation — flights, train and buses — to neighboring China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to the U.S. evacuation flight, a Japanese flight from Wuhan landed safely in Tokyo on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, decisions on evacuating citizens is up to the countries,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. “But one thing WHO advises is that they have to prepare themselves if there is importation of cases. So they need to really have a thorough understanding, comprehensive, on their actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC says that while it considers the immediate risk posed by the coronavirus as “low,” travelers should avoid any nonessential travel to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outbreak is growing and there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas,” the CDC said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also recommends\u003c/a> that people take simple steps to reduce the chances of spreading any respiratory illness, such as washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and avoiding close contact with anyone who is sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 804px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM.png 804w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM-160x150.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-11.10.00-AM-800x749.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of Hong Kong, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ccite>(Map by Daniel Wood/NPR. Research by Susie Cummings and Ayda Pourasad/NPR.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Merrit Kennedy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Coronavirus%3A+Americans+Cheer+As+Evacuation+Flight+From+Wuhan+Reaches+U.S.&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate on Wednesday night concluded the first of two days full of questions in the impeachment trial of President Trump. The proceeding offered clues about the thinking of senators, but the session consisted mostly of trial lawyers on both sides magnifying arguments they have already delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were, however, controversial moments in which Trump's counsel took positions Democrats decried as radical or even unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lawyer Patrick Philbin and Rep. Adam Schiff, one of the Democrats prosecuting Trump, sparred over a topic that reverberated after Wednesday's session ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philbin defended accepting \"credible\" information from foreign sources about a political rival, arguing that \"mere information is not something that would violate the campaign finance laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's credible information,\" he said, \"it's relevant information for the voters to know about for people to be able to decide on who is the best candidate for an office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense echoes comments Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/id-exclusive-interview-trump-listen-foreigners-offered-dirt/story?id=63669304&cid=clicksource_4380645_null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously made\u003c/a> about accepting compromising information from foreign governments about political opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alan Dershowitz, President Donald Trump's lawyer\"]'If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff became animated in responding, saying the suggestion that seeking foreign interference in an American election is a president's policy should have another name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry, that's what I call corruption. And they can dress it up in fine legalese, but corruption is still corruption,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance laws \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">do prohibit \u003c/a>foreign contributions, or taking a \"thing of value\" from a foreign source in U.S. elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said Senate Democrats were in \"shock\" when Philbin defended what she called a type of foreign interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is setting precedent that is unheard of in our country. And it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said he was \"flabbergasted\" by Philbin's \"inappropriate\" remarks. \"The president's counsel tonight, in a sense gave a green light for that kind of behavior to continue,\" he said. \"I hope and pray that cooler heads will prevail but I think there was a dramatic step backwards in terms of protecting the integrity of our election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner, a lead Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Philbin's advocacy contradicts the work of the intelligence community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Trump's own Director of the CIA, Director of NSA, Director of National Intelligence, Director of FBI, who've all said their top priority going into 2020 is to make sure foreign interference does not continue and is not allowed,\" Warner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, sounding aghast, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's now okay to criminally conspire with another country to get help in a presidential election?\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another striking exchange occurred when Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz said if a president orchestrates a quid pro quo, or an exchange of favors, and it is done for more reasons than being corrupt, then the action should not trigger an impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,\" Dershowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dershowitz said if a president does not act out of purely a \"corrupt motive,\" but rather has a \"mixed motive,\" meaning a president is acting of the country's interest and in hopes of improving reelection prospects, then the behavior cannot warrant articles of impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How many presidents have made foreign policy decisions after checking with their political advisers and pollsters?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said the position brought Dershowitz \"into the land of legal absurdity,\" he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1222626330560385025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a>. \"That anything a public official does for re-election is OK. That cannot be true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal proceedings on Capitol Hill, in which senators from both parties submitted written questions to House managers prosecuting the case as well as Trump's defense lawyers, commenced as news emerged from the White House that the National Security Council told John Bolton, its former chief, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745122-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a letter \u003c/a>that the manuscript for his upcoming book \"appears to contain significant amounts of classified information\" that needs to be excised before the book can be published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFd3ZuChl0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is being contested by Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, who on Wednesday released an email he sent last week to the National Security Council in which he asserted that nothing in Bolton's book \"could reasonably be considered classified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said the National Security Council never responded to the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manuscript, which reportedly contains dozens of pages on Trump's dealing with Ukraine, has loomed over this week's Senate impeachment trial sessions. That is because the book purportedly says Trump told Bolton that military assistance to Ukraine would be released only after Ukraine opened investigations into Trump's Democratic rivals — the allegation at the heart of Trump's impeachment and the proceedings in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question Wednesday came from Susan Collins, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, three Republican senators who have signaled they may support a vote to hear from witnesses. They asked the president's defense lawyers how the Senate should weigh impeachment if Trump had more than one motive for his conduct. The question — like all others — were submitted to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, who read them aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Patrick Philbin responded that \"once you're in mixed-motive land, once it is established that there is a legitimate public interest that could justify looking into something, just asking a question about something, the managers' case fails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question from the Democratic side was whether the Senate could render a verdict without hearing from key witnesses, such as Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11798694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20028771507033_custom-4043677bf5f30d2ff0afeb0e0dc942461cef616b-e1580312519783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (second from left) leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lead House manager Adam Schiff, D-Calif., responded, \"The short answer to that question is, there is no way to have a fair trial without witnesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters later on Wednesday that he was uncertain about the prospect of getting 51 senators to vote to call witnesses: All Democrats and those who caucus with them would need at least four Republican senators to join them in order to get witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked whether it mattered legally if Trump sought a quid pro quo from Ukraine's leader. Trump's attorney Alan Dershowitz responded with a broad view of executive powers, arguing that \"if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later, Schiff said: \"All quid pro quos are not the same. Some are legitimate and some are corrupt, and you don't need to be a mind reader to figure out which is which. For one thing, you can ask John Bolton.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\"]'I hope we can get witnesses and documents. It's an uphill fight. Is it more likely than not? Probably no. But is it a decent good chance? Yes.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a definite shift in activity in the chamber Wednesday. Senate pages ran question cards and notes back and forth — in addition to their usual duties of running water and mail to senators' desks. Senators were also much more engaged in the question-and-answer portion. Dozens had question cards on their desks, took notes or prepared questions. Many watched the speaker at the lectern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session, which was scheduled to last eight hours on Wednesday, will continue for a further eight on Thursday. This stage in the proceedings comes a day after the president's legal team rested in its defense of Trump. Democratic House managers made their case last week on why the president should be removed from office. Trump was impeached last month on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those watching the session Wednesday was Joseph Bondy, the attorney for Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Bondy was in the Senate gallery as a guest of Schumer. Parnas, who has been indicted in New York for alleged campaign finance violations, wasn't in the gallery because he has to wear a GPS monitoring device as part of his pretrial release. Bondy declined to say where Parnas would watch the proceedings from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11798798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20029605326106_custom-812c1ad9fedca5e815fa848f78438444dbbd77d9-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20029605326106_custom-812c1ad9fedca5e815fa848f78438444dbbd77d9-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20029605326106_custom-812c1ad9fedca5e815fa848f78438444dbbd77d9-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lev Parnas, a Rudy Giuliani associate with ties to Ukraine, collects his belongings after going through a security checkpoint during the impeachment trial of President Trump on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two days of Senate questions set the stage for a Friday vote on whether to allow witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope we can get witnesses and documents,\" Schumer told reporters during a break in the questioning. \"It's an uphill fight. Is it more likely than not? Probably no. But is it a decent good chance? Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also expressed concerns about GOP senators Tuesday. Although Senate Republicans including Romney of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Murkowski of Alaska and Collins of Maine have indicated they may be open to hearing from witnesses, their final decision is still unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Democrats, multiple potential witnesses have firsthand accounts of what they say is a quid pro quo scheme with Ukraine that forms the basis of the two impeachment charges that Trump is facing. But Republicans maintain that witnesses can inject uncertainty into the proceedings and prolong the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., told NPR's Claudia Grisales that he remains \"very, very skeptical that there is any witness that is going to shed any light that is going to cause me to change my view on what the final outcome of what this trial ought to be.\" Republicans overwhelmingly support Trump's acquittal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the sought-after witnesses is Bolton, the former national security adviser who captured Washington's attention this week following the release of revelations in his forthcoming book. Those purported book details, first reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, placed pressure on senators to vote to allow witnesses into the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the NSC in a Jan. 23 letter to Cooper, Bolton's lawyer, said: \"Under federal law and the nondisclosure agreements your client signed as a condition for gaining access to classified information, the manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter, signed by the NSC's record management official, Ellen Knight, said the council would work with Bolton to help identify what material in the manuscript could be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's defense team has argued that the manuscript would be \"inadmissible\" in the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Trump have accused Democrats of trying to invalidate the result of the 2016 election. They say Trump has not committed any crime and therefore cannot be removed from office, even though many legal scholars say a law need not be broken to secure an impeachment conviction that would remove a president from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although two previous presidents, Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson, have also been impeached, no U.S. president has ever been removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats impeached Trump last month for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for what the prosecution team says was a campaign to pressure Ukraine into opening investigations into Trump's political rivals by holding up $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance in order to apply leverage on Ukrainian authorities. House Democrats say the White House's refusal to cooperate with the impeachment investigation is proof of a cover-up and amounts to obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Impeachment+Trial+Moves+To+Question+Phase%2C+While+Witness+Vote+Looms&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff became animated in responding, saying the suggestion that seeking foreign interference in an American election is a president's policy should have another name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry, that's what I call corruption. And they can dress it up in fine legalese, but corruption is still corruption,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance laws \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">do prohibit \u003c/a>foreign contributions, or taking a \"thing of value\" from a foreign source in U.S. elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said Senate Democrats were in \"shock\" when Philbin defended what she called a type of foreign interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is setting precedent that is unheard of in our country. And it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said he was \"flabbergasted\" by Philbin's \"inappropriate\" remarks. \"The president's counsel tonight, in a sense gave a green light for that kind of behavior to continue,\" he said. \"I hope and pray that cooler heads will prevail but I think there was a dramatic step backwards in terms of protecting the integrity of our election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner, a lead Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Philbin's advocacy contradicts the work of the intelligence community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Trump's own Director of the CIA, Director of NSA, Director of National Intelligence, Director of FBI, who've all said their top priority going into 2020 is to make sure foreign interference does not continue and is not allowed,\" Warner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, sounding aghast, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's now okay to criminally conspire with another country to get help in a presidential election?\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another striking exchange occurred when Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz said if a president orchestrates a quid pro quo, or an exchange of favors, and it is done for more reasons than being corrupt, then the action should not trigger an impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,\" Dershowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dershowitz said if a president does not act out of purely a \"corrupt motive,\" but rather has a \"mixed motive,\" meaning a president is acting of the country's interest and in hopes of improving reelection prospects, then the behavior cannot warrant articles of impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How many presidents have made foreign policy decisions after checking with their political advisers and pollsters?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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That cannot be true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal proceedings on Capitol Hill, in which senators from both parties submitted written questions to House managers prosecuting the case as well as Trump's defense lawyers, commenced as news emerged from the White House that the National Security Council told John Bolton, its former chief, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745122-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a letter \u003c/a>that the manuscript for his upcoming book \"appears to contain significant amounts of classified information\" that needs to be excised before the book can be published.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1uFd3ZuChl0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1uFd3ZuChl0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That is being contested by Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, who on Wednesday released an email he sent last week to the National Security Council in which he asserted that nothing in Bolton's book \"could reasonably be considered classified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said the National Security Council never responded to the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manuscript, which reportedly contains dozens of pages on Trump's dealing with Ukraine, has loomed over this week's Senate impeachment trial sessions. That is because the book purportedly says Trump told Bolton that military assistance to Ukraine would be released only after Ukraine opened investigations into Trump's Democratic rivals — the allegation at the heart of Trump's impeachment and the proceedings in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question Wednesday came from Susan Collins, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, three Republican senators who have signaled they may support a vote to hear from witnesses. They asked the president's defense lawyers how the Senate should weigh impeachment if Trump had more than one motive for his conduct. The question — like all others — were submitted to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, who read them aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Patrick Philbin responded that \"once you're in mixed-motive land, once it is established that there is a legitimate public interest that could justify looking into something, just asking a question about something, the managers' case fails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first question from the Democratic side was whether the Senate could render a verdict without hearing from key witnesses, such as Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11798694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/ap_20028771507033_custom-4043677bf5f30d2ff0afeb0e0dc942461cef616b-e1580312519783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Democratic impeachment manager Rep. 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Democrats need at least four Republicans to cross party lines and support new witnesses in order to meet the threshold for bringing new witnesses and evidence into the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"White House counsel Pat Cipollone\"]'I think we've made our case. All you need in this case is the Constitution and your common sense.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure has been building on senators to hear from former National Security Adviser John Bolton, whom Democrats say has a first-hand account of Trump's dealing with Ukraine at the heart of the impeachment case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton, who has a forthcoming book detailing his knowledge of the Ukraine pressure campaign, has said he is willing to share his side of the story with senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Trump's defense team has fought back, saying Bolton has nothing of value to offer senators, since they argue even if Bolton's account is true, it would not clear the bar of constituting an impeachable offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Tuesday, President Trump's defense team completed its arguments against his removal from office in the Senate impeachment trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we've made our case,\" White House counsel Pat Cipollone said. \"All you need in this case is the Constitution and your common sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the two articles of impeachment passed last month by the House of Representatives — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — \"fall far short of any constitutional standard and they are dangerous,\" a word he repeated several times in final remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5iLZh1pwm0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET, senators will have a chance to submit written questions to the House impeachment managers and Trump's defense lawyers through U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, with each party alternating. They will have a total of 16 hours over two days for questions. After the questions wrap up, senators will then take up whether to call witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's proceedings concluded against the backdrop of a \u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>report this week that cited the unpublished manuscript of a book being written by former national security adviser John Bolton about, among other things, his time in the Trump White House. Bolton writes, according to the newspaper, that Trump told him that he was withholding military aid to Ukraine until the government there began an investigation into political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden's and his son Hunter's activities. That allegation is at the heart of Trump's impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in an apparent reference to the manuscript, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow told senators Tuesday that impeachment \"is not a game of leaks and unsourced manuscripts.\" Most of the president's lawyers have steered clear of the Bolton report, except for Alan Dershowitz, who argued Monday that even if the former national security adviser's allegations were true, they weren't sufficient to remove a president from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the news report prompted Democrats to demand that Bolton be called as a witness in the Senate trial. Democrats need to persuade at least four Republicans to defect from their party's leadership in order to support a subpoena of Bolton, a threshold that Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said on Monday appeared \"increasingly likely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans have floated the idea of a deal on witnesses: one that would include calling Hunter Biden to testify. But before the final day of Trump's defense began, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., dismissed that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hunter Biden has nothing to do with the facts of this trial,\" he said at a news conference Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer insisted that senators should hear from the same four witnesses whom he has been pushing for since the start of the trial — Bolton; acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney; Robert Blair, a White House official; and Michael Duffey, an official at the Office of Management and Budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not bargaining with them — four witnesses and four sets of documents,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also dismissed a proposal floated by GOP Sens. 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Not one American life was in jeopardy or lost by the short delay, and they know it,\" Herschmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Starr, who is defending Trump and who led the investigation into President Bill Clinton that triggered Clinton's impeachment, made the case that Trump's impeachment, the third in American history, shows that \"we are living in what aptly can be described as the age of impeachment,\" adding the process is \"filled with acrimony and divides the country like nothing else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump defense lawyer Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, also used Monday to attack the Biden family, playing a television interview with Hunter Biden answering questions about his time as a board member of the energy company Burisma when his father was vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Joe Biden nor his son has been accused of any wrongdoing connected to Ukraine and Burisma. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure has been building on senators to hear from former National Security Adviser John Bolton, whom Democrats say has a first-hand account of Trump's dealing with Ukraine at the heart of the impeachment case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton, who has a forthcoming book detailing his knowledge of the Ukraine pressure campaign, has said he is willing to share his side of the story with senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Trump's defense team has fought back, saying Bolton has nothing of value to offer senators, since they argue even if Bolton's account is true, it would not clear the bar of constituting an impeachable offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Tuesday, President Trump's defense team completed its arguments against his removal from office in the Senate impeachment trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we've made our case,\" White House counsel Pat Cipollone said. \"All you need in this case is the Constitution and your common sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the two articles of impeachment passed last month by the House of Representatives — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — \"fall far short of any constitutional standard and they are dangerous,\" a word he repeated several times in final remarks.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/r5iLZh1pwm0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/r5iLZh1pwm0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET, senators will have a chance to submit written questions to the House impeachment managers and Trump's defense lawyers through U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, with each party alternating. They will have a total of 16 hours over two days for questions. After the questions wrap up, senators will then take up whether to call witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's proceedings concluded against the backdrop of a \u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>report this week that cited the unpublished manuscript of a book being written by former national security adviser John Bolton about, among other things, his time in the Trump White House. Bolton writes, according to the newspaper, that Trump told him that he was withholding military aid to Ukraine until the government there began an investigation into political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden's and his son Hunter's activities. That allegation is at the heart of Trump's impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in an apparent reference to the manuscript, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow told senators Tuesday that impeachment \"is not a game of leaks and unsourced manuscripts.\" Most of the president's lawyers have steered clear of the Bolton report, except for Alan Dershowitz, who argued Monday that even if the former national security adviser's allegations were true, they weren't sufficient to remove a president from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the news report prompted Democrats to demand that Bolton be called as a witness in the Senate trial. Democrats need to persuade at least four Republicans to defect from their party's leadership in order to support a subpoena of Bolton, a threshold that Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said on Monday appeared \"increasingly likely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans have floated the idea of a deal on witnesses: one that would include calling Hunter Biden to testify. But before the final day of Trump's defense began, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., dismissed that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hunter Biden has nothing to do with the facts of this trial,\" he said at a news conference Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer insisted that senators should hear from the same four witnesses whom he has been pushing for since the start of the trial — Bolton; acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney; Robert Blair, a White House official; and Michael Duffey, an official at the Office of Management and Budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not bargaining with them — four witnesses and four sets of documents,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also dismissed a proposal floated by GOP Sens. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:15 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As President Trump's legal team pressed the case for acquittal on Monday, they repeatedly made two points: the charges against Trump do not meet the constitution's criteria for impeachment. And if the president is removed from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, it will set a \"dangerous\" precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo,\" said one of Trump's lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, calling the charges \"vague, indefinable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Dershowitz on the impeachment charges sent to the Senate by House Democrats: \"This is a realistic threat to all future presidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's lawyers maintain that the president was legally justified in freezing military assistance to Ukraine and that the case against Trump presented by Democrats in the Senate last week does not constitute a crime and thus cannot trigger removal from office, a notion that has received strenuous skepticism from legal scholars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impeachment trial watchers on Monday, however, were following a major development that occurred outside of the Senate chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>about the alleged conversation between Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton — contained in a draft of the former national security adviser's book manuscript — shifted the focus to whether senators would vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, as part of the proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was based on Bolton's forthcoming book, a draft of which had been sent to the White House as part of a standard review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation grew about whether Republicans would support calling Bolton, Dershowitz referenced the former top Trump official and dismissed the portions of his yet-to-be-published book that have grabbed the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republican senators, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, said Monday that the revelations about Bolton's book have made it more likely that senators will want to call Bolton to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,\" Romney said, noting that he would make his final decision on the issue after hearing from Trump's defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1221822472292634625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tweeted\u003c/a> that the reports about Bolton's book \"strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others who are seen as more open to calling witnesses — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — were tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander said senators will decide \"to call witnesses or other documents if we needed them after we hear all the arguments.\" Murkowski said in a tweet that while she was \"curious\" about what Bolton had to say, there is \"an appropriate time for us to evaluate whether we need additional information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, argued that the president \"was at all times\" acting under his constitutional and legal authority by withholding aid to Ukraine, saying that Trump's impeachment is about \"deep policy concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton in 1998 and is now part of Trump's defense team, began his arguments by reciting a history of impeachment and declared, \"Like war, impeachment is hell.\" He said, \"It divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr went on to accuse the House of abusing its power by approving article 2, which charges that Trump obstructed Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, we have, tragically for the country and, I believe, tragically for the House of Representatives, in article 2 of these impeachment articles, a runaway House,\" Starr said. \"It has run away not only from its long-standing procedures — it has run away from the Constitution's demand of fundamental fairness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump's attorneys, Jane Raskin, spoke to defend Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer who was painted by the House managers as leading a rogue foreign policy operation by pursuing information against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as pressuring to remove former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuliani, said Raskin, was the House's \"colorful distraction,\" and, \"a shiny object designed to distract you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the \"House managers may not like his style, you may not like his style. But one might argue, that he is everything that Clarence Darrow said a defense lawyer must be, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the afternoon, Trump attorney Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, rose to attack former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter's dealings in Ukraine. The younger Biden was hired to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma at the same time his father was the Obama administration's point man in fighting corruption there. In the infamous July 25th phone call, Trump asked Ukraine's president to \"do us a favor, though\" and investigate the Bidens. The first article of impeachment charges Trump with abusing the power of his office by asking for the investigation in return for releasing nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. Trump denies any such link was made, though Bolton's book appears to undercut that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi said the younger Biden was paid $83,000 a month to sit on the Burisma board, and played a news clip in which Hunter was asked if would have been hired by the firm if his last name wasn't Biden. \"I don't know, I don't know, he responded. Probably not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Push for Witnesses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over three days of arguments last week, House impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799426878/trump-impeachment-recap-dems-wrap-with-exhortation-to-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlined their case\u003c/a> that Trump enlisted a foreign power to help him cheat in the 2020 election and then has tried to cover it up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/18/797600385/read-the-impeachment-managers-response-to-the-senate-impeachment-trial-summons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They've said\u003c/a> that the president's conduct is the \"worst nightmare\" of the nation's Framers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is facing a mostly sympathetic group of jurors in the Republican-controlled Senate. An acquittal on the two articles of impeachment is all but guaranteed, since the Democratic caucus would need 20 GOP members' support to have the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More up in the air, however, is whether Democrats will be able to recruit enough Republicans to call witnesses for the trial. That vote has a lower threshold than the one required to remove the president from office. At least four GOP senators would have to cross party lines to call witnesses or subpoena documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the \u003cem>Times'\u003c/em> report on Sunday, Democrats were quick to reiterate that Bolton should testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that the revelations should remove the GOP resistance against witnesses. He said details in the book provide \"further evidence that a large number of people were in the loop\" on Trump's alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer said there seems to be a \"giant cover-up\" within the White House and added that if Republicans don't vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, \"they are going to be part of the cover-up too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/800158076/independent-sen-angus-king-reflects-on-bolton-bombshell\">told NPR\u003c/a> on Monday that up to 10 Republican senators could vote for witnesses following the \u003cem>Times' \u003c/em>report about the Bolton manuscript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm already hearing a number of Republicans who are moving toward voting to at least hear from John Bolton, if not other witnesses,\" he said. When asked if four Republicans would vote for witnesses, he said: \"I think there'll be more. My bold prediction will be five or 10.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead impeachment manager, linked testimony from Bolton to the very notion of a fair trial. \"To say we will blind ourselves from a witness who has so clearly relevant testimony to one of the central most serious allegations against the president — I don't see how we can have a fair trial without testimony like that,\" he told reporters on Monday before the White House lawyers continued their arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats had asked Bolton to testify during the impeachment inquiry but did not issue him a subpoena. The White House had ordered senior officials to not testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any vote on witnesses and new evidence would come after the defense team rests (it has up to 24 hours over three days) and after senators have a chance to ask questions in writing of both House prosecutors and Trump's legal team. The questions will be read out loud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who's presiding over the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bolton's Manuscript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>NPR has not seen a draft of the manuscript and cannot vouch for the accuracy of the report on Trump's comments to the former national security adviser. A spokesman for the National Security Council said no one at the White House other than people at the NSC had reviewed Bolton's book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ambassador Bolton's manuscript was submitted to the NSC for pre-publication review and has been under initial review by the NSC,\" NSC spokesman John Ullyot said in a statement. \"No White House personnel outside NSC have reviewed the manuscript.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump denied Bolton's account in a series of tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1221663763138588672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said\u003c/a>. \"If John Bolton said this,\" Trump continued, \"it was only to sell a book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1221663763138588672?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military assistance and the desired investigations are at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. Democrats say Trump's actions constitute a clear case of abuse of power, with Trump placing his personal interests over the country's. The legal team representing Trump in the Senate trial argues that the president had justifiable concern about corruption in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aid was ultimately released without the inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Constitutional Standard\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/25/799535269/trump-impeachment-recap-white-house-team-vows-to-deflate-dems-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offered a brief glimpse\u003c/a> of their defense Saturday, minimizing the evidence House investigators gathered before the Democratic-led chamber impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, claimed Democrats' push to remove Trump from office is aimed at overturning the result of the 2016 election and \"tearing up [voters'] ballots\" months before the 2020 election.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Alan Dershowitz, another member of the defense team, said on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em> that the Democratic-led prosecution does not have a case that passes constitutional muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They completely failed to meet that high constitutional standard, and therefore it would be unconstitutional to remove a president based on the allegations that were made against him,\" Dershowitz said. \"They imposed very stringent criteria for impeachment that haven't been met in this case,\" citing the Founders' standard for impeachment, which is \"treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the House passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vote for impeachment followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/771287237/trump-impeachment-inquiry-a-guide-to-key-people-facts-and-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hours of testimony\u003c/a>, in private and in public, with more than a dozen witnesses during the House impeachment inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is also expected to take aim at the president's potential political opponent, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, making the case that Trump had good reason to want Ukrainian investigators to launch criminal probes into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the activities of the Bidens in Ukraine\u003c/a>. (While Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden took a position as board member of a gas company in Ukraine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full-throated defense of Trump comes after the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office declared that the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796806517/trump-broke-the-law-in-freezing-ukraine-funds-watchdog-report-concludes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the law\u003c/a> in ordering a hold on nearly $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Trump administration refused to participate in the House impeachment inquiry, the president's defense in the Senate is the first time Trump's team will present a lengthy rebuttal to the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Roberta Rampton and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most impeachment trial watchers on Monday, however, were following a major development that occurred outside of the Senate chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>about the alleged conversation between Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton — contained in a draft of the former national security adviser's book manuscript — shifted the focus to whether senators would vote to call witnesses, including Bolton, as part of the proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was based on Bolton's forthcoming book, a draft of which had been sent to the White House as part of a standard review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation grew about whether Republicans would support calling Bolton, Dershowitz referenced the former top Trump official and dismissed the portions of his yet-to-be-published book that have grabbed the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Republican senators, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, said Monday that the revelations about Bolton's book have made it more likely that senators will want to call Bolton to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,\" Romney said, noting that he would make his final decision on the issue after hearing from Trump's defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1221822472292634625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tweeted\u003c/a> that the reports about Bolton's book \"strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others who are seen as more open to calling witnesses — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — were tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander said senators will decide \"to call witnesses or other documents if we needed them after we hear all the arguments.\" Murkowski said in a tweet that while she was \"curious\" about what Bolton had to say, there is \"an appropriate time for us to evaluate whether we need additional information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, argued that the president \"was at all times\" acting under his constitutional and legal authority by withholding aid to Ukraine, saying that Trump's impeachment is about \"deep policy concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the impeachment efforts against President Bill Clinton in 1998 and is now part of Trump's defense team, began his arguments by reciting a history of impeachment and declared, \"Like war, impeachment is hell.\" He said, \"It divides the country like nothing else. Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr went on to accuse the House of abusing its power by approving article 2, which charges that Trump obstructed Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, we have, tragically for the country and, I believe, tragically for the House of Representatives, in article 2 of these impeachment articles, a runaway House,\" Starr said. \"It has run away not only from its long-standing procedures — it has run away from the Constitution's demand of fundamental fairness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump's attorneys, Jane Raskin, spoke to defend Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer who was painted by the House managers as leading a rogue foreign policy operation by pursuing information against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, as well as pressuring to remove former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuliani, said Raskin, was the House's \"colorful distraction,\" and, \"a shiny object designed to distract you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the \"House managers may not like his style, you may not like his style. But one might argue, that he is everything that Clarence Darrow said a defense lawyer must be, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the afternoon, Trump attorney Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, rose to attack former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter's dealings in Ukraine. The younger Biden was hired to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma at the same time his father was the Obama administration's point man in fighting corruption there. In the infamous July 25th phone call, Trump asked Ukraine's president to \"do us a favor, though\" and investigate the Bidens. The first article of impeachment charges Trump with abusing the power of his office by asking for the investigation in return for releasing nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. Trump denies any such link was made, though Bolton's book appears to undercut that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi said the younger Biden was paid $83,000 a month to sit on the Burisma board, and played a news clip in which Hunter was asked if would have been hired by the firm if his last name wasn't Biden. \"I don't know, I don't know, he responded. Probably not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Push for Witnesses\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over three days of arguments last week, House impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799426878/trump-impeachment-recap-dems-wrap-with-exhortation-to-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlined their case\u003c/a> that Trump enlisted a foreign power to help him cheat in the 2020 election and then has tried to cover it up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/18/797600385/read-the-impeachment-managers-response-to-the-senate-impeachment-trial-summons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They've said\u003c/a> that the president's conduct is the \"worst nightmare\" of the nation's Framers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's legal team is facing a mostly sympathetic group of jurors in the Republican-controlled Senate. An acquittal on the two articles of impeachment is all but guaranteed, since the Democratic caucus would need 20 GOP members' support to have the two-thirds majority needed to convict and remove the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More up in the air, however, is whether Democrats will be able to recruit enough Republicans to call witnesses for the trial. That vote has a lower threshold than the one required to remove the president from office. At least four GOP senators would have to cross party lines to call witnesses or subpoena documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the \u003cem>Times'\u003c/em> report on Sunday, Democrats were quick to reiterate that Bolton should testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that the revelations should remove the GOP resistance against witnesses. 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He played on five NBA championship teams, was an 18-time All-Star, was the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in the 2007-2008 season and is fourth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-1196594255_custom-04d72c4a2598b3fca94ef63fd54b7976723fbec1-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-1196594255_custom-04d72c4a2598b3fca94ef63fd54b7976723fbec1-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-1196594255_custom-04d72c4a2598b3fca94ef63fd54b7976723fbec1-s800-c85-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks at Staples Center on December 29, 2019, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The aircraft went down in a remote field off Las Virgenes around 10:00 this morning. Nobody on the ground was hurt. The FAA and NTSB are investigating,” the city of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CityofCalabasas/status/1221525572087451648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calabasas wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters there were nine people killed in the crash, including one pilot and eight passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 20 seasons, Kobe showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said following the news. “… But he will be remembered most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete to the very best of their ability. He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share it with future generations of players, taking special delight in passing down his love of the game to Gianna.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no words to express the pain I’m going through now,” Bryant’s longtime Lakers teammate Shaquille O’Neal wrote on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SHAQ/status/1221549914766954496?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played on the Lakers for 14 seasons in the 1970s and 1980s and is one of just three people to have scored more points than Bryant said, “I will always remember him as a man who was much more than an athlete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kaj33/status/1221543886767579136?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abdul-Jabbar called Bryant\u003c/a> “an incredible family man,” who “inspired a whole generation of young athletes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native of Philadelphia, Bryant was drafted into the NBA from high school at age 17 and stayed with the Lakers his whole career — joining \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story?_slug_=tip-cap-kobe-bryant-others-played-20-years-one-team&id=15148120&redirected=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an exclusive club\u003c/a> of players throughout U.S. professional sports to spend two decades with a single team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His Lakers teams won consecutive NBA titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and then again in 2009 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Injuries held him back in the final years of his career, with a torn Achilles tendon at the end of the 2013 season, followed by a knee injury and rotator cuff surgery. When he announced his retirement in November 2015, “it wasn’t a shock,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/13/474107238/kobe-bryants-life-and-career-by-the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as NPR characterized it\u003c/a>. To mark the occasion, Bryant wrote a poem, which begins:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Dear Basketball,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started rolling my dad’s tube socks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And shooting imaginary\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game-winning shots\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Great Western Forum\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew one thing was real:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I fell in love with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A love so deep I gave you my all —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From my mind & body\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To my spirit & soul.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bryant faced controversy in 2003, when a 19-year-old woman accused Bryant of raping her. He was charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment. The accuser faced intense scrutiny from the media and a campaign from Bryant’s defense team to discredit her. The criminal case ended in 2004 after she decided to not participate in the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-2203507_custom-7953a78e9cc5e068d71b20128de7c151b1853194-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-2203507_custom-7953a78e9cc5e068d71b20128de7c151b1853194-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-2203507_custom-7953a78e9cc5e068d71b20128de7c151b1853194-s800-c85-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa attend a news conference at Staples Center, in Los Angeles in 2003. The NBA star proclaimed his innocence of the sexual assault charges filed by the district attorney of Eagle, Colorado, for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old Colorado woman. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658651932/kobe-bryant-removed-as-animation-festival-juror-after-protest-over-past-allegati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryant and the accuser\u003c/a> settled a civil lawsuit out of court in 2005 with no admission of guilt. He released a statement saying he believed the encounter was consensual, “but I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11798104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-895194666-12_custom-ed7e497cce53e1c9976530c855e5f88051731f85-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-895194666-12_custom-ed7e497cce53e1c9976530c855e5f88051731f85-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/gettyimages-895194666-12_custom-ed7e497cce53e1c9976530c855e5f88051731f85-s800-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kobe Bryant poses with his family at halftime after both his #8 and #24 Los Angeles Lakers jerseys are retired at Staples Center on Dec. 18, 2017, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Harry How/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bryant retired in 2016. He was married to Vanessa Bryant, and the two were parents to four daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Bobby Allyn contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The accuser faced intense scrutiny from the media and a campaign from Bryant’s defense team to discredit her. 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The NBA star proclaimed his innocence of the sexual assault charges filed by the district attorney of Eagle, Colorado, for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old Colorado woman. \u003ccite>(J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658651932/kobe-bryant-removed-as-animation-festival-juror-after-protest-over-past-allegati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryant and the accuser\u003c/a> settled a civil lawsuit out of court in 2005 with no admission of guilt. 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The proceedings resume Monday at 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s team told senators that the House managers selectively withheld evidence in their arguments against the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cipollone said the Democratic House managers,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/797320957/democrats-to-hold-final-day-of-arguments-before-trumps-team-takes-the-stage\"> who concluded their arguments late Friday\u003c/a> after 24 hours spread over three days, “are asking you to remove President Trump” from the 2020 ballot and “they’re asking you to do it with no evidence.” He said the managers “didn’t tell you” that the issue of burden sharing — getting other nations to contribute more to Ukraine’s defense — was discussed in the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That call is at the heart of the charges against the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy White House counsel Mike Purpura continued that theme, reiterating that House managers “didn’t tell you” that top Ukrainian officials were unaware that U.S. aid was being withheld from Ukraine until a \u003cem>Politico \u003c/em>article in late August. However, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Laura Cooper testified during the House impeachment inquiry in November that Ukrainian officials asked in July: “What is going on” with the security assistance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the session, both sides claimed the advantage. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said the president’s defense team “entirely shredded” the Democratic managers’ case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rep. 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John Kennedy, R-La., was first in line to shake Cipollone’s and Sekulow’s hands, followed by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The camaraderie was bipartisan. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was also among those greeting the president’s lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Representatives impeached Trump last month on charges that he obstructed Congress and abused power, saying he tried to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump’s political rivals during the July phone call. The president and his defenders have dismissed the process as a sham and refused to participate in the House proceedings. Saturday was the first time Trump’s lawyers responded in person to the charges against the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presentation was expected to set the stage for the “coming attractions,” as Sekulow described it Friday, for the trial when it resumes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes discussing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/22/781589327/bosses-of-fusion-gps-tell-the-inside-story-of-the-steele-dossier\">the Steele dossier\u003c/a>, a report of unverified information on the Trump campaign compiled by a former British spy, and efforts made by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to dig up dirt on Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sekulow also tried to argue, as many Republicans have over the course of the impeachment proceedings, that Clinton solicited foreign interference by Ukraine in the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American intelligence agencies have been unanimous in their assessment that it was Russia that interfered in the last presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump’s defense attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, told NPR’s David Folkenflik that he would focus his arguments on what he sees as “nonimpeachable offenses” brought forward by the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They charged him with nonimpeachable offenses: namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power,” Dershowitz said. “Those would have clearly been rejected by the framers as too broad, too open-ended and not sufficiently specific. So I’m going to focus my argument on the criteria used by the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have largely stood by the president throughout the week, and because they hold a majority in the Senate, it remains unlikely that Trump will be removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that there were “gaping holes” in the president’s lawyers’ case and that they inadvertently bolstered Democrats’ arguments that the Senate should call witnesses, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps because of the brevity of the Saturday session, there was unusual camaraderie at its close. Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal attorney, worked the room, with some senators coming up to shake their hands as they stood up from their table after the close. They later went to some members’ desks to visit. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., was first in line to shake Cipollone’s and Sekulow’s hands, followed by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The camaraderie was bipartisan. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was also among those greeting the president’s lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Representatives impeached Trump last month on charges that he obstructed Congress and abused power, saying he tried to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump’s political rivals during the July phone call. The president and his defenders have dismissed the process as a sham and refused to participate in the House proceedings. Saturday was the first time Trump’s lawyers responded in person to the charges against the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presentation was expected to set the stage for the “coming attractions,” as Sekulow described it Friday, for the trial when it resumes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes discussing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/22/781589327/bosses-of-fusion-gps-tell-the-inside-story-of-the-steele-dossier\">the Steele dossier\u003c/a>, a report of unverified information on the Trump campaign compiled by a former British spy, and efforts made by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to dig up dirt on Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sekulow also tried to argue, as many Republicans have over the course of the impeachment proceedings, that Clinton solicited foreign interference by Ukraine in the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American intelligence agencies have been unanimous in their assessment that it was Russia that interfered in the last presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Trump’s defense attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, told NPR’s David Folkenflik that he would focus his arguments on what he sees as “nonimpeachable offenses” brought forward by the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They charged him with nonimpeachable offenses: namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power,” Dershowitz said. “Those would have clearly been rejected by the framers as too broad, too open-ended and not sufficiently specific. So I’m going to focus my argument on the criteria used by the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have largely stood by the president throughout the week, and because they hold a majority in the Senate, it remains unlikely that Trump will be removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Winners of the 62nd Grammy Awards will be announced Sunday night — but there's a cloud hanging over the ceremony. Last week, Deborah Dugan, the recently installed president and CEO of the Recording Academy — which hands out the awards — was placed on administrative leave. Earlier this week, Dugan filed a discrimination \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6667812-Dugan-EEOC-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint\u003c/a> with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and vote rigging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recording Academy has been struggling for years with criticism that the Grammys were too male, too white, too old and too insular. In came Dugan five months ago, as the Academy's first female leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pledged that the organization could do better, as she told NPR in an interview \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/12/787171580/grammys-pledge-more-diversity-under-new-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last month\u003c/a>: \"We've known as an industry for a long time that we have a monumental problem with gender issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, just over a week ago and only 10 days before the awards telecast, the Recording Academy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797208517/recording-academy-ceo-suspended-amid-allegations-of-misconduct\">abruptly announced\u003c/a> that it had placed Dugan on leave pending an investigation into an allegation of bullying that came from a female assistant. But in an interview Thursday, Dugan claimed she was placed on leave as retaliation for accusations she made, and changes she proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Dugan says her suspension is the result of a memo she sent in December to the Academy's Human Resources director, which included an accusation that she had been sexually harassed by the Academy's general counsel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gtlaw.com/en/professionals/k/katz-joel-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Katz\u003c/a>. (Katz is also a former Academy board chair.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her EEOC complaint, Dugan reiterated her accusations against Katz — and she said she learned that her predecessor, Neil Portnow, had been accused of raping a female artist. Both Katz and Portnow \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deny the accusations\u003c/a>, and Portnow said in a statement that he was investigated and exonerated. In the complaint, Dugan also repeated and elaborated upon her accusations from the HR memo related to questionable financial expenditures, rigged Grammy voting and self-dealing at the public, non-profit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR on Thursday, Dugan reiterated her accusation against Katz as it is laid out in the EEOC complaint. She said that the incident occurred on May 18, 2019, before she had started officially working at the Academy in August. She had been invited to attend the first day of a three-day board session held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif. She says Katz (an extremely high-profile attorney who recently negotiated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737613627/taylor-swifts-former-label-big-machine-is-sold-rankling-the-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the sale\u003c/a> of Taylor Swift's former label home, Big Machine Label Group, to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings Group) invited her to dine with him that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under the guise of a work dinner,\" she told NPR, \"I was propositioned by the general counsel — that is, Joel [Katz]. It started with calling me 'baby' and telling me how pretty I was. And then in the course of the dinner, after ordering a bottle of wine, I got a little more uncomfortable. He was talking about his private plane and trips that we could do and it ended with him leaning forward to kiss me. As I look back now, I think that there — the fact that they had me meet him and have dinner with him first — was sort of a test of how much I would acquiesce to.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='sexual-harassment' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>In the moment, Dugan added, she had been \"disgusted and bewildered,\" and that she immediately went back to her hotel room and called \"quite a few people\" to tell them what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Wednesday, Katz's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said in part: \"Ms. Dugan's allegations of harassment and her description of a dinner at the steakhouse in the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel are false, and Mr. Katz categorically and emphatically denies her version of that evening. .... Mr. Katz believed they had a productive and professional meeting in a restaurant where a number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, and others, were dining. ... Mr. Katz will cooperate in any and all investigations or lawsuits by telling the absolute and whole truth. Hopefully Ms. Dugan will do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about these things in entertainment and certainly for women in leadership,\" said Dugan, who immediately prior to coming the Academy had led the charity (RED) after roles as president of Disney Publishing Worldwide and as an executive at EMI Records Group. \"But after so many years, and having such a track record of integrity and purpose, to have this happen — I was very disillusioned and to be honest, a little scared ... And there was a continuing pattern afterwards of whenever we had private conversations, he was calling me 'baby,' telling me how pretty I was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan and her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, denied to NPR that she had bullied the Academy employee — a woman named Claudine Little, who had previously served as the executive assistant to Portnow. The Academy has said that Dugan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused\u003c/a> of creating a \"toxic and intolerable\" work environment and engaging in \"abusive and bullying conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR via the Recording Academy on Wednesday, Little said: \"Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO. I am proud of my career with the Academy—where, as a woman, I was able to work my way from secretary to director of administration in the executive suite, solely based on merit and while working for and with leaders far more demanding and hard-charging than Ms. Dugan. It is disappointing that Ms. Dugan hopes to leverage public opinion along gender lines and expects not to be scrutinized for her inexcusable behavior simply because she is a woman; she should be held to the same standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Thursday NPR interview, Dugan said that she had found Little's work lacking, and that she had suggested moving the assistant into another role at the Academy rather than terminate her employment. (The situation with Little is also described in the EEOC complaint.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wigdor added: \"Neil Portnow was accused of rape. Was he placed on administrative leave? No. So to place Deborah on an administrative leave over being bossy — and by the way, women are bossy, men are bosses — to put her on an administrative leave over something as innocuous and benign as being allegedly bossy to an administrative assistant just doesn't make any sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discrimination complaint, Dugan also repeated her allegations of irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Grammy voting process, as well as substantial payouts of fees to outside law firms and to individual board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include payouts to Greenberg Traurig, where Joel Katz is an attorney. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017\u003c/a>, according to the Academy's 990 forms, the firm was paid $6.3 million, as well as $1.75 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a> and over $1.1 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2015_naras_form_990_public_discolusre_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a>, with similar amounts in the two previous years. According to the EEOC filing, the Academy also pays Katz personally $250,000 annually as a retainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Dugan also said that the board and executive committee reacted negatively to some urgent recommendations from the Academy's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, a group formed in the wake of widely denounced comments made by her predecessor, longtime Academy president and CEO Portnow. (After the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony was criticized for a lack of female nominees and performers, Portnow said that women in the industry would just have to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/06/583464118/women-in-the-music-industry-call-for-evolution-at-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step up\u003c/a>\" to be recognized.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some things I got pushback on like, 'Oh, we don't need a chief diversity officer,\" Dugan told NPR. She also described what she saw as conflicts of interest in the process of nominating artists for Grammys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a degree of corruption in that system,\" she said. \"There is a problem when you have board members on those committees who have a vested interest in having certain artists winning.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Statement from the Recording Academy']'Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also reiterated in her EEOC complaint that the telecast's producer of 40 years, Ken Ehrlich, holds undue influence over the nominations for high-profile Grammy award categories, including Record of the Year and Album of the Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I think that this system of him making it clear who he'd like on the show to the board members who are then in the room voting is not a correct one going forward?\" she asked rhetorically. \"I do. I think it should be changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/arts/music/grammys-deborah-dugan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times\u003c/a> on Thursday, Ehrlich said, \"There is no truth to what she alleges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Thursday afternoon, the chairman of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason, Jr., and Bill Freimuth, the Academy's Chief Awards Officer, said in part: \"Spurious allegations claiming members or committees use our process to push forward nominations for artists they have relationships with are categorically false, misleading and wrong. ... Because these committee members are at the top of their craft, and many members work with multiple artists, it is not unusual that some of the people in each room will end up with nominations from the first round. There are strict rules in place to address any conflict of interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Up until about a decade ago, I was a Grammy voter, and also served on the \"craft\" committee for the Best Album Notes field, one of a small group of Grammy categories outside the \"nomination review\" process and not voted on by the general membership. In addition, my husband, Joshua Sherman, was also a Grammy voter, and served on Academy committees; he was also part of teams that created several Grammy-winning recordings, and he produced several other Grammy-nominated albums. In my own experience, it is certainly true that in certain Grammy categories, especially in smaller genres or for fields involving particular professional expertise, there is a limited universe of accredited Grammy voters willing to volunteer their time to serve on award committees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer and music executive, just became the chair of the Recording Academy's board of trustees \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/press-releases/recording-academy%E2%84%A2-announces-harvey-mason-jr-tammy-hurt-terry-hemmings-and-christine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in June\u003c/a>. After Dugan was put on leave, he became its is acting CEO. In a Thursday interview with NPR, he would not answer any specific questions about the Dugan situation or the conflicting narratives, saying that the behind-the-scenes struggle detracted from the awards ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our biggest season for me,\" he said, \"and this night is everything to our organization. What we are doing is really focusing on the show and the musicians, and trying to make sure that the spotlight doesn't get taken away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he took Dugan's allegations — including sexual misconduct, significant financial improprieties, and vote rigging — as grave matters, Mason said, \"Everything is taken seriously. Anything that somebody says, whether it's a guy at the coffee shop that I run into and says, 'You know, the Academy should do this...' I take all that stuff seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speaking to NPR, Mason also emphasized that the Academy has begun two separate investigations into the allegations by Little and Dugan; Mason said the investigations would be independent and transparent. But he declined to give any timeline for that work, and said repeatedly that he did not know what firm or firms were leading those investigations, adding that they were \"people that we had no association with and no connection to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dugan's EEOC complaint, however, the investigators were selected by the law firm Proskauer Rose — a firm that charged the Academy over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000\u003c/a> in 2017 and over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$870,000\u003c/a> in 2016, the most recent years for which financial information is available. (A partner at Proskauer Rose, \u003ca href=\"https://www.proskauer.com/professionals/charles-ortner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles Ortner\u003c/a>, serves as national legal counsel to the Academy, and is one of the most powerful lawyers in the entertainment industry; his client list has included Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, U2 and Madonna.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, the Academy's Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, (which is chaired by Tina Tchen, the president and CEO of Time's Up), issued its own statement. It reiterated its December recommendations, which Dugan had promised to implement almost in entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing of its collective \"shock and dismay,\" the 18-member volunteer group urged the Grammy organization to implement several concrete steps in particular, including hiring a dedicated diversity executive \"to lead the deeper changes that are obviously needed.\" The statement continued, in part: \"We are deeply disappointed at the level of commitment by some of the Academy's leadership in effecting the kind of real and constructive change presented in our report. We are confident that they can do better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason told NPR on Thursday that he was still very committed to diversity improvements at the Academy, noting that they had been part of his own campaign for chair. \"The plan is definitely to continue to push those through and make sure they all happen,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But least one more member of the task force has spoken out even more forcefully as an individual. Ty Stiklorius, a prominent artist manager whose client roster includes singer John Legend and crossover violinist Lindsey Stirling, posted on Twitter Thursday: \"I won't stay quiet on this. As an Academy Inclusivity Task Force member I saw the inner workings & lack of transparency. The board voted down our recommendation of Ranked Choice Voting. They have not implemented our recommendations but used us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tystiklorius/status/1220431046258364419?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as a pawn\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/tystiklorius/status/1220431046258364419?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, however, no artists slated to perform at the Grammys telecast Sunday night have pulled out. Billboard magazine's executive editor West Coast and Nashville, Melinda Newman, has a theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly think this is so complex,\" she says. \"Once you've heard one thing and you think you might have enough information to make your mind up, something else drops and you're like, 'Wow, hang on a second.' 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Winners of the 62nd Grammy Awards will be announced Sunday night — but there's a cloud hanging over the ceremony. Last week, Deborah Dugan, the recently installed president and CEO of the Recording Academy — which hands out the awards — was placed on administrative leave. Earlier this week, Dugan filed a discrimination \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6667812-Dugan-EEOC-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint\u003c/a> with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and vote rigging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recording Academy has been struggling for years with criticism that the Grammys were too male, too white, too old and too insular. In came Dugan five months ago, as the Academy's first female leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pledged that the organization could do better, as she told NPR in an interview \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/12/787171580/grammys-pledge-more-diversity-under-new-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last month\u003c/a>: \"We've known as an industry for a long time that we have a monumental problem with gender issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, just over a week ago and only 10 days before the awards telecast, the Recording Academy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797208517/recording-academy-ceo-suspended-amid-allegations-of-misconduct\">abruptly announced\u003c/a> that it had placed Dugan on leave pending an investigation into an allegation of bullying that came from a female assistant. But in an interview Thursday, Dugan claimed she was placed on leave as retaliation for accusations she made, and changes she proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Dugan says her suspension is the result of a memo she sent in December to the Academy's Human Resources director, which included an accusation that she had been sexually harassed by the Academy's general counsel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gtlaw.com/en/professionals/k/katz-joel-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Katz\u003c/a>. (Katz is also a former Academy board chair.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her EEOC complaint, Dugan reiterated her accusations against Katz — and she said she learned that her predecessor, Neil Portnow, had been accused of raping a female artist. Both Katz and Portnow \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deny the accusations\u003c/a>, and Portnow said in a statement that he was investigated and exonerated. In the complaint, Dugan also repeated and elaborated upon her accusations from the HR memo related to questionable financial expenditures, rigged Grammy voting and self-dealing at the public, non-profit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR on Thursday, Dugan reiterated her accusation against Katz as it is laid out in the EEOC complaint. She said that the incident occurred on May 18, 2019, before she had started officially working at the Academy in August. She had been invited to attend the first day of a three-day board session held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif. She says Katz (an extremely high-profile attorney who recently negotiated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737613627/taylor-swifts-former-label-big-machine-is-sold-rankling-the-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the sale\u003c/a> of Taylor Swift's former label home, Big Machine Label Group, to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings Group) invited her to dine with him that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under the guise of a work dinner,\" she told NPR, \"I was propositioned by the general counsel — that is, Joel [Katz]. It started with calling me 'baby' and telling me how pretty I was. And then in the course of the dinner, after ordering a bottle of wine, I got a little more uncomfortable. He was talking about his private plane and trips that we could do and it ended with him leaning forward to kiss me. As I look back now, I think that there — the fact that they had me meet him and have dinner with him first — was sort of a test of how much I would acquiesce to.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>In the moment, Dugan added, she had been \"disgusted and bewildered,\" and that she immediately went back to her hotel room and called \"quite a few people\" to tell them what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Wednesday, Katz's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said in part: \"Ms. Dugan's allegations of harassment and her description of a dinner at the steakhouse in the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel are false, and Mr. Katz categorically and emphatically denies her version of that evening. .... Mr. Katz believed they had a productive and professional meeting in a restaurant where a number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, and others, were dining. ... Mr. Katz will cooperate in any and all investigations or lawsuits by telling the absolute and whole truth. Hopefully Ms. Dugan will do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about these things in entertainment and certainly for women in leadership,\" said Dugan, who immediately prior to coming the Academy had led the charity (RED) after roles as president of Disney Publishing Worldwide and as an executive at EMI Records Group. \"But after so many years, and having such a track record of integrity and purpose, to have this happen — I was very disillusioned and to be honest, a little scared ... And there was a continuing pattern afterwards of whenever we had private conversations, he was calling me 'baby,' telling me how pretty I was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan and her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, denied to NPR that she had bullied the Academy employee — a woman named Claudine Little, who had previously served as the executive assistant to Portnow. The Academy has said that Dugan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused\u003c/a> of creating a \"toxic and intolerable\" work environment and engaging in \"abusive and bullying conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR via the Recording Academy on Wednesday, Little said: \"Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO. I am proud of my career with the Academy—where, as a woman, I was able to work my way from secretary to director of administration in the executive suite, solely based on merit and while working for and with leaders far more demanding and hard-charging than Ms. Dugan. It is disappointing that Ms. Dugan hopes to leverage public opinion along gender lines and expects not to be scrutinized for her inexcusable behavior simply because she is a woman; she should be held to the same standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Thursday NPR interview, Dugan said that she had found Little's work lacking, and that she had suggested moving the assistant into another role at the Academy rather than terminate her employment. (The situation with Little is also described in the EEOC complaint.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wigdor added: \"Neil Portnow was accused of rape. Was he placed on administrative leave? No. So to place Deborah on an administrative leave over being bossy — and by the way, women are bossy, men are bosses — to put her on an administrative leave over something as innocuous and benign as being allegedly bossy to an administrative assistant just doesn't make any sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discrimination complaint, Dugan also repeated her allegations of irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Grammy voting process, as well as substantial payouts of fees to outside law firms and to individual board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include payouts to Greenberg Traurig, where Joel Katz is an attorney. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017\u003c/a>, according to the Academy's 990 forms, the firm was paid $6.3 million, as well as $1.75 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a> and over $1.1 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2015_naras_form_990_public_discolusre_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a>, with similar amounts in the two previous years. According to the EEOC filing, the Academy also pays Katz personally $250,000 annually as a retainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Dugan also said that the board and executive committee reacted negatively to some urgent recommendations from the Academy's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, a group formed in the wake of widely denounced comments made by her predecessor, longtime Academy president and CEO Portnow. 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In my own experience, it is certainly true that in certain Grammy categories, especially in smaller genres or for fields involving particular professional expertise, there is a limited universe of accredited Grammy voters willing to volunteer their time to serve on award committees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer and music executive, just became the chair of the Recording Academy's board of trustees \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/press-releases/recording-academy%E2%84%A2-announces-harvey-mason-jr-tammy-hurt-terry-hemmings-and-christine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in June\u003c/a>. After Dugan was put on leave, he became its is acting CEO. 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But he declined to give any timeline for that work, and said repeatedly that he did not know what firm or firms were leading those investigations, adding that they were \"people that we had no association with and no connection to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dugan's EEOC complaint, however, the investigators were selected by the law firm Proskauer Rose — a firm that charged the Academy over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000\u003c/a> in 2017 and over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$870,000\u003c/a> in 2016, the most recent years for which financial information is available. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats finished their second day of oral arguments on Thursday, contending that that President Trump's attempt to pressure Ukraine into investigations was not only an attempt to cheat in the 2020 election, but Democrats said it was also the kind of behavior the nation's founding fathers hoped to guard against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why this president must be removed from office, especially before he continues his effort to corrupt our next election,\" said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., one of the Democrats prosecuting Trump. \"Simply stated, impeachment is the constitution's final answer to a president who mistakes himself for a king.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the night's final remarks, Rep. 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They will take up Article 2, obstruction of Congress, on Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the text of the two articles here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler, an impeachment manager and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, gave extended remarks on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Trump abused his power by withholding military aid and by putting off meeting with the president of Ukraine, unless the Ukrainian government investigated the activities of former Vice President Joe Biden, a possible political opponent, and his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler told senators that conduct was wrong and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No president has ever used his office to compel a foreign nation to help him cheat in our elections,\" Nadler said. \"Prior presidents would be shocked to the core by such conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports that Democrats were willing to allow one of the Bidens to testify in the trial in exchange for a senior administration official's testimony were shot down by lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Nadler began making his case, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1220410391668371457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a> that Democrats \"don't want a Witness Trade\" because it \"would be a BIG problem for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1220410391668371457?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler also did a bit of trolling in his presentation, playing a 1999 video clip of Sen. 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It's just when you start using your office and you're acting in a way that hurts people, you've committed a high crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoDKXGdi1xg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler also showed a clip of Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, now one of Trump's defenders, who argued in 1998 that a high crime doesn't have to be \"a technical crime.\" (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo312-GYNDk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dershowitz has more recently argued\u003c/a> that evidence of a crime is in fact necessary for impeachment, falling in line with the Trump White House's argument on the matter.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, followed Nadler to the well of the Senate, addressing the issue of Trump's allegations that Biden and his son Hunter had nefarious doings in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The allegations against Biden are completely groundless,\" she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read a fact check about their actions in Ukraine here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia presented a slide that indicated Trump's charges against Biden coincided with polls, including one by Fox News, which showed the former vice president ahead of Trump in a possible 2020 matchup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also played video clips of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Trump's former national security adviser Tom Bossert throwing cold water on Trump's claims that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hacking of the Democrats computer server in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a break, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow dismissed the Democrats' arguments for convicting Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hearing the same things over and over,\" he said. Sekulow added that Trump's legal team \"will be putting on a vigorous defense ... and rebutting what they've said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of levity, House manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., referred to the almost-unanimous election of New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter to baseball's Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope we can subpoena John Bolton, subpoena Mick Mulvaney,\" Jeffries said. \"But perhaps we can all agree to subpoena the Baseball Hall of Fame, to try to figure out who, out of 397 individuals, one person voted against Derek Jeter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's remarks on the Senate floor follow a day of presentations and arguments in which Democratic impeachment managers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797320569/with-the-rules-set-senate-trial-opening-arguments-begin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">implored skeptical Republicans\u003c/a> to buck their party's leadership and vote to remove the president for abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won,\" Schiff, who also chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In corruptly using his office to gain a political advantage and abusing the powers of that office in such a way to jeopardize our national security and the integrity of our elections, in obstructing the investigation into his own wrongdoing, the president has shown that he believes that he's above the law and scornful of constraint,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's defense team will have its turn to counter Democratic arguments and make a case for the president's acquittal when the prosecution is finished. If Democrats take up all of their allotted time, that would mean House managers would wrap up Friday and the president's defense lawyers would mount a defense starting this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, Trump called the Democrats leading his prosecution \"sleazebags\" and \"very, very dishonest people,\" and he dismissed the case built against him as \"a hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's so bad for the country,\" Trump said, adding: \"I'd love to go to the trial, sit in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Trump lawyer Sekulow bristled at the idea of the president pulling off such a stunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His counsel might recommend against that,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial centers on Trump's dealings with Ukraine. In particular, House prosecutors say the president dangled $391 million in congressionally approved security assistance needed to counter Russian aggression as a way to get Kyiv to announce an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. Such an announcement, House Democrats say, would benefit Trump's reelection prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's acquittal is all but certain. Democrats would need 20 GOP senators to defy their party's leadership and vote to convict in order to remove Trump from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That outcome is not likely with partisan battle lines so deeply drawn, especially in the backdrop of how Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deeply divided\u003c/a> over impeachment and with the nation watching as the political proceeding plays out ahead of a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has blocked key witnesses from participating in the trial and has not cooperated with subpoenas from House investigators. Democrats need four Republicans to join them to win a procedural battle that will enable them to request documents or witness testimony. There are no indications right now that any GOP senators will break with their leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"contributors-text\">\u003cem>NPR's Brakkton Booker contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH+LIVE%3A+Democrats+Narrow+In+On+Abuse+Of+Power+In+Impeachment+Trial&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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