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The agency is responsible for cleaning the streets, keeping sidewalks and pavement in good condition, and maintaining the city's 125,000 street trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the department's other activities: operating the Pit Stop street toilets, a program that figures in the federal charges against Nuru that were disclosed Tuesday. The criminal complaint alleges Nuru shared inside information on a city contract for the portable toilets with restaurateur Nick Bovis, who had developed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-newest-rolling-toilets-are-an-homage-to-12367154.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Painted Lady-themed restroom structure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projects like that amount to a small line item for Public Works. The department has a fiscal 2019-20 budget of $501 million and about 1,670 employees. 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Public Works will be at the center of the $600 million project, which involves redesigned sidewalks, protected bicycle lanes, new dedicated bus lanes and transit loading zones, new streetcar tracks, revamped electrical systems for Muni vehicles, replacement of traffic signals and even new sewers and water lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Nuru's arrest Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798496/among-city-leaders-varied-reactions-to-the-arrest-of-sf-public-works-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some San Francisco officials noted\u003c/a> that Public Works is different from the city's other giant agencies in one crucial way: It lacks a commission to exercise oversight of the department's activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney said Tuesday he feels Public Works suffers from a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department of Public Works itself is a behemoth controlling vast areas of San Francisco government, and yet it lacks basic public accountability, like an oversight commission — a basic tool of good governance that most departments already have — to set standards and review contracts,\" Haney said in a statement. \"It is one of the largest, last standing departments to lack this level of public oversight and accountability. 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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. 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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>\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. 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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. 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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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And it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous,\" she said.\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. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 2:37 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charismatic head of San Francisco’s Public Works department was arrested Monday by the FBI on public corruption charges including allegations that he attempted to bribe a San Francisco International Airport official to secure a contract for a restaurant space at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammed Nuru, 57, and San Francisco restaurateur Nick Bovis, 56, are both charged with corruption in connection with a series of alleged schemes involving public agency contracts, according to federal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru, who was first arrested on Jan. 21, was also charged with making false statements to the FBI after allegedly promising to cooperate with the probe and then lying to investigators. He was arrested again Monday, along with Bovis, 56, owner of the baseball-themed Lefty O'Doul's bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru and Bovis were freed on $2 million bail each and will return to court Feb. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney David Anderson said that Nuru and Bovis could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the corruption charges. Nuru could face another five years if found guilty of lying to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mayor London Breed\"]'It is of course important that we work with the city attorney and our controller's office to fully cooperate with the FBI on this particular investigation to ensure public trust and full transparency.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The complaint alleges corruption, bribery and side deals by one of San Francisco's highest-ranking public employees,\" Anderson said at a news conference announcing the charges. \"Federal law gives the citizens of San Francisco a right to honest service from their public officials. San Francisco has been deprived of that right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 75-page complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office details five \"schemes\" in which Nuru is alleged to have taken advantage of his position to benefit himself and others. Bovis is charged in three of the alleged deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One allegation charges that Nuru used his position as chair of the board of directors of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, the agency that owns and operates the Transbay Transit Center, to get a favorable lease for Bovis. Another accuses Nuru of feeding Bovis inside information on a city contract to provide portable toilets and \"tiny homes\" for homeless San Franciscans. Yet another says the Public Works director got contractors doing work for the city to work on a vacation home in the Colusa County community of Stonyford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, an attorney for Nuru said he \"looks forward to addressing these charges in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mohammed Nuru, a father of five, has been a dedicated public servant in San Francisco for decades. Before joining Public Works, he served the city through his years-long service at a nonprofit. He is grateful to have worked alongside the many committed and talented individuals of Public Works,\" said Nuru’s lawyer, Ismail Ramsey, in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6705040-Usa-v-Nuru-and-Bovis.html\" responsive=true height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of the allegation is that Nuru and Bovis attempted to bribe an SFO commissioner in 2018 with $5,000 and a free trip so that a restaurant associated with Bovis could secure an airport contract. The alleged bribery scheme was not actually completed, according to federal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the alleged SFO bribery is the core of the case against the two men, who are charged with honest services wire fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other charges, prosecutors allege that Nuru was provided gifts — including a trip to China and a $2,000 bottle of wine — by a \"billionaire developer from China\" who was promised help with the permitting process in San Francisco for a \"large multimillion-dollar mixed-use project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that Nuru failed to disclose the gifts, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said Nuru used construction contractors who have business with Public Works in order to get free work done on his vacation home in Stonyford. The Colusa County hamlet is about 110 miles north of San Francisco — about a 3.5-hour drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contractors doing work for city of San Francisco provided Nuru free and discounted labor, materials and a John Deere tractor,\" Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint filed in federal court also noted the unusual circumstance of Bay Area workers traveling to a remote location to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Currently in San Francisco and the Bay Area, construction and remodels are very common,\" the complaint observes. \"Local contractors typically have more work than they can handle in the immediate Bay Area. ln this economic climate and given the considerable extra expense to a customer, it is remarkable that Nuru has contractors from San Francisco driving three and a half hours one way to work on his vacation home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mohammed-nuru\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the allegations \"extremely serious\" and pledged that the city will \"cooperate fully with any investigation.\" Breed added that Nuru was placed on administrative leave Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking the city attorney and the controller to conduct a thorough review of any implicated city contracts or other decisions and to investigate any suspected violations of the law or the stringent guidelines and rules that ensure the integrity of our contracting process,\" Breed said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed added that \"nothing matters more than the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each and every one of us who works for the city must hold ourselves to the highest standard,\" she said. \"I accept nothing less for myself or for those who serve in this administration, and I will do everything I can to ensure that those who fail to uphold that standard are held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru, a well-connected bureaucrat, was appointed director of Public Works by the late Mayor Ed Lee in 2011. 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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. 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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. 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=What+To+Watch+For+As+Trump%27s+Legal+Team+Resumes+Its+Impeachment+Defense&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>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said there is overwhelming evidence that the president has done what he is charged with: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't trust this president to do what's right for this country. He will do what's right for Donald Trump,\" Schiff said. \"If you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccnGoJEw_Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats resume the trial of the president at 1 p.m. Friday, when House managers are expected to conclude their opening arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the Democrats focused on Article 1 of impeachment, abuse of power, for their second day of arguments. 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. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>arguing for the conviction of President Bill Clinton. Graham was a House impeachment manager at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham argued that a \"high crime\" — a constitutional requirement for removing a president — \"doesn't even have to be a crime. 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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>This report includes descriptions of sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was never inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of Harvey Weinstein’s career, dark rumors of sexual assault and harassment tailed the Hollywood mega-producer. But they were rarely spoken with much volume. Only in recent years did the allegations gather the heft and momentum that culminated in this: a teeming courtroom in Manhattan where, in a matter of weeks, a judge might send Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening statements start Wednesday in Weinstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/793613868/harvey-weinstein-heads-to-trial-for-sex-crimes-in-a-metoo-landmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal trial\u003c/a>. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to the multiple sexual assault and rape charges he faces in New York state, and he has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, casting these encounters as entirely consensual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what led to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scores of women have accused Weinstein of crimes dating back decades—ranging from intimidation to rape—this timeline focuses on the incidents cited in criminal cases against him in Manhattan and, more recently, in Los Angeles, and the swell of popular momentum that helped drive prosecutors to press charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"annabella\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Winter 1993-94: Weinstein allegedly rapes Annabella Sciorra\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \" width=\"248\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png 248w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM-160x215.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actress, perhaps best known for her Emmy-nominated work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, says Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment after an industry dinner. She says the producer dropped her off, only to reappear at her door and force his way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sciorra’s allegation went on to become the subject of pretrial arguments in Manhattan. While the alleged incident is too old to be prosecuted under state law, and while the defense team objected to its inclusion in the trial, her testimony will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-annabella-sciorra-trial-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heard anyway\u003c/a>, in support of the charge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lucia\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>June 1, 2004: Weinstein allegedly forces Lucia Evans to perform oral sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former aspiring actress told \u003cem>The New Yorker—\u003c/em>in one of \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of major stories\u003c/a> that trained a national spotlight on the allegations—that Weinstein raped her in his office in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He forced me to perform oral sex on him,” Evans said, adding: “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t.’ I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her account led prosecutors to pursue a criminal sexual act charge against Weinstein, although it was dismissed in 2018. (More explanation on that \u003ca href=\"#dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"mimi\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 10, 2006: Weinstein allegedly forces himself on Mimi Haleyi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haleyi, a former production assistant at Weinstein’s now-bankrupt production company, says that after inviting her to his New York City home, the producer ignored her objections, pulled out her tampon and forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No woman should have to be subjected to this type of unacceptable abuse,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in 2017\u003c/a>. “Women have the right to say no. A ‘no’ is a ‘no,’ regardless of the circumstances—and I told Harvey no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haleyi’s claim was included in a \u003ca href=\"#second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LAincidents\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Feb. 18-19, 2013: A pair of incidents in Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details have been formally released as yet about these alleged incidents, which recently prompted Los Angeles prosecutors to \u003ca href=\"#LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file four charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein: one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Feb. 18, 2013, Weinstein allegedly went to a hotel and raped a woman after pushing his way inside her room,” the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/media/news/hollywood-producer-harvey-weinstein-charged-sexually-assaulting-two-women-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained in early January\u003c/a>. “The next evening, the defendant is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel suite in Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2013: Alleged rape in New York City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, even fewer details had been released about this allegation, which prompted two of the charges against Weinstein: first- and third-degree rape. Indeed, it was not until the trial’s opening statements that prosecutors released the name of the alleged victim, Jessica Mann, and the details of her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Mann, an aspiring actress, had attended several industry events with Weinstein and endured increasingly aggressive sexual advances—including one incident in which, similar to Haleyi, Mann says Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was later, on March 18—one month after the alleged incidents in LA—that Mann says she tried to confront Weinstein at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. There, he allegedly coaxed her up to his room, forced her to disrobe and ordered her onto the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got on top of her and he raped her, forcing his penis into her vagina,” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast told jurors on Wednesday. “Jessica just laid there. When he finished, he got off of her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 2015: New York DA decides not to prosecute allegation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, a Filipina-Italian model, reported Weinstein to the New York Police Department for allegedly groping her during a meeting at his Tribeca office. She \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-the-wire/id1487730212?i=1000459181175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says that\u003c/a> later, at the urging of police, she wore a recording device for an arranged meetup at a Manhattan hotel and that Weinstein admitted that he groped her and sought unsuccessfully to get her to come to his room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, however, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance decided not to pursue the case, saying \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/charges-filed-harvey-weinstein/story?id=30232552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the time\u003c/a> that “a criminal charge is not supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, after the publication of a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailing Gutierrez’s allegations\u003c/a>, her story would become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/times-up-sexual-assault-cuomo-weinstein-cyrus-vance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focus of intense criticism\u003c/a> leveled at Vance, whose office is now responsible for prosecuting the criminal trial. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo \u003ca href=\"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requested a review\u003c/a> of the DA’s decision in 2015, though it’s not clear whether that was ever completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2017: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The New York Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg\" alt=\"Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1192172436-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose McGowan speaks to the media outside court on January 6, 2020, New York City. \u003ccite>(Kena Betancur/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While rumors of sexual harassment and assault had long dogged Weinstein—even supplying \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-seth-macfarlane-reveals-truth-about-his-1507755303-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punchlines at the Oscars\u003c/a>—but it wasn’t until the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> published exposés that the allegations found serious traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times’ story\u003c/a>, written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, focused on allegations by a series of assistants and actresses, such as Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein, in a statement released \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/us/statement-from-harvey-weinstein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that same day\u003c/a>, pledged to take a leave of absence and acknowledged that “I have a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I so respect all women and regret what happened,” he said, without admitting wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"nyer\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 10, 2017: The \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>New Yorker\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> publishes more allegations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published just days after the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> article, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">journalist Ronan Farrow’s piece\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> focused on a slew of other accusations—including the allegation by Lucia Evans that had been included in and but was later dropped from the list of criminal charges Weinstein faces in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 14, 2017: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/14/557790894/weinstein-expelled-from-the-academy-of-motion-pictures-arts-and-sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>is expelled\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> from the Academy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the first signs that the reaction to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reports represented a sea change, complete with real-world implications for Weinstein, the Hollywood producer is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the influential organization responsible for the Oscars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues,” the academy’s 54-member Board of Governors explained in a statement after an emergency meeting, “but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2018: The Weinstein Company \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/595089301/the-weinstein-co-files-for-bankruptcy-cancels-non-disclosure-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>files for bankruptcy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffeted by months of negative press, the production company that Weinstein founded with his brother, Bob, goes belly up. The company declares bankruptcy and sells “substantially all” of its assets to Lantern Capital Partners, and it also voids the nondisclosure agreements it had reached with Weinstein’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>May 25, 2018: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614339339/harvey-weinstein-surrenders-to-authorities-on-sexual-assault-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>surrenders to police\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former producer arrives at the New York Police Department’s 1st Precinct in Lower Manhattan, where he submits to arrest with droves of journalists looking on. It is Weinstein’s first arrest in connection with the sexual assault allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. submits Weinstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-criminal-charges-against-harvey-weinstein/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial slate of charges\u003c/a>: “The defendant is charged with Rape in the First and Third Degrees, as well as Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, for forcible sexual acts against two women in 2013 and 2004, respectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week and a half later, Weinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/617095337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleads not guilty\u003c/a> to the charges, which will later change significantly as new information comes to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"second\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 2, 2018: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/625330563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Additional charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> against Weinstein announced\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manhattan DA Vance \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanda.org/district-attorney-vance-announces-additional-charges-against-harvey-weinstein-including-predatory-sexual-assault/\">announces the filing\u003c/a> of a superseding grand jury indictment, which adds charges connected with a third incident in 2006. The new slate includes one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree and two counts of predatory sexual assault, the most serious charge levied against Weinstein by New York City prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#mimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mimi Haleyi\u003c/a>, who was involved in the alleged 2006 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had come forward\u003c/a> with her story more than half a year earlier, saying that during her time working at The Weinstein Company, Weinstein orally forced himself on her in his New York City home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein pleads not guilty to the new charges a week after they are announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"dismissed\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2018: One charge against Weinstein is dismissed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-860971312-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) hold a news conference and demonstration outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, October 13. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justice James Burke, the judge overseeing the Manhattan trial, dismissed one of the charges against the producer after it came to light that investigators didn’t properly present certain information to the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Evans told the grand jury—and the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em>—that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him. But an unidentified friend of hers had contradicted that account in an interview with a detective, saying Evans called it a consensual act in exchange for the promise of acting work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors acknowledged later that the detective “failed to inform” them of “important details” of the interview prior to Evans’ grand jury testimony. Weinstein’s legal team pushed to have the criminal sexual act charge dismissed as a result, and prosecutors did not object.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 11, 2019: The Weinstein Company strikes \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/787306873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>tentative deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> with alleged victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein and his now-bankrupt production company reach a tentative $47 million settlement to discharge their financial obligations. The deal contains $25 million earmarked for Weinstein’s alleged victims, including more than 30 actresses and former employees. It does not, however, require an admission of wrongdoing or any personal payments from Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not a done deal, though: A judge still needs to sign off on the agreement for it to become final. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726499228/wsj-harvey-weinstein-reaches-44-million-deal-over-sexual-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous attempts\u003c/a> have fallen through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Trial in New York City begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s trial formally opens in Manhattan, with more than two weeks devoted to selecting a jury. After roughly a year and a half of pretrial wrangling, the charges Weinstein faces are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Two counts of predatory sexual assault\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the first degree (connected to the 2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of rape in the third degree (2013 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>One count of criminal sexual act in the first degree (2006 incident)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the most serious crime on that list, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>, Weinstein faces the possibility of spending the rest of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/70.00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LA\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Jan. 6, 2020: Los Angeles prosecutors announce \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/794012813/harvey-weinstein-is-charged-with-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-as-n-y-trial-begi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>charges of their own\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day that his trial opens in Manhattan, Weinstein is hit with new legal woes from the other side of the U.S.: \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/sites/default/files/press/010620_Hollywood_Producer_Harvey_Weinstein_Charged_With_Sexually_Assaulting_Two_Women_in_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four felony counts of sexual assault\u003c/a>, filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Lacey. The charges are connected with incidents that allegedly happened at local hotels over \u003ca href=\"#laincidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two nights in February 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the evidence will show that the defendant used his power and influence to gain access to his victims,” Lacey says, “and then commit violent crimes against them.”\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\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Harvey+Weinstein+Trial%3A+A+Brief+Timeline+Of+How+We+Got+Here&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>So what led to this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scores of women have accused Weinstein of crimes dating back decades—ranging from intimidation to rape—this timeline focuses on the incidents cited in criminal cases against him in Manhattan and, more recently, in Los Angeles, and the swell of popular momentum that helped drive prosecutors to press charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"annabella\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Winter 1993-94: Weinstein allegedly rapes Annabella Sciorra\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \" width=\"248\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM.png 248w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-11.50.39-AM-160x215.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annabella Sciorra attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2018. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The actress, perhaps best known for her Emmy-nominated work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, says Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment after an industry dinner. She says the producer dropped her off, only to reappear at her door and force his way inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sciorra’s allegation went on to become the subject of pretrial arguments in Manhattan. While the alleged incident is too old to be prosecuted under state law, and while the defense team objected to its inclusion in the trial, her testimony will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-annabella-sciorra-trial-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heard anyway\u003c/a>, in support of the charge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predatory sexual assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lucia\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>June 1, 2004: Weinstein allegedly forces Lucia Evans to perform oral sex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former aspiring actress told \u003cem>The New Yorker—\u003c/em>in one of \u003ca href=\"#nyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of major stories\u003c/a> that trained a national spotlight on the allegations—that Weinstein raped her in his office in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He forced me to perform oral sex on him,” Evans said, adding: “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t.’ I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her account led prosecutors to pursue a criminal sexual act charge against Weinstein, although it was dismissed in 2018. (More explanation on that \u003ca href=\"#dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"mimi\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>July 10, 2006: Weinstein allegedly forces himself on Mimi Haleyi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-865953512-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimi Haleyi (L) and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a press conference, October 2017, New York City. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haleyi, a former production assistant at Weinstein’s now-bankrupt production company, says that after inviting her to his New York City home, the producer ignored her objections, pulled out her tampon and forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No woman should have to be subjected to this type of unacceptable abuse,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-wWVOyjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in 2017\u003c/a>. “Women have the right to say no. A ‘no’ is a ‘no,’ regardless of the circumstances—and I told Harvey no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haleyi’s claim was included in a \u003ca href=\"#second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"LAincidents\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Feb. 18-19, 2013: A pair of incidents in Los Angeles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details have been formally released as yet about these alleged incidents, which recently prompted Los Angeles prosecutors to \u003ca href=\"#LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file four charges\u003c/a> against Weinstein: one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Feb. 18, 2013, Weinstein allegedly went to a hotel and raped a woman after pushing his way inside her room,” the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey \u003ca href=\"http://da.co.la.ca.us/media/news/hollywood-producer-harvey-weinstein-charged-sexually-assaulting-two-women-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained in early January\u003c/a>. “The next evening, the defendant is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel suite in Beverly Hills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2013: Alleged rape in New York City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, even fewer details had been released about this allegation, which prompted two of the charges against Weinstein: first- and third-degree rape. Indeed, it was not until the trial’s opening statements that prosecutors released the name of the alleged victim, Jessica Mann, and the details of her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Mann, an aspiring actress, had attended several industry events with Weinstein and endured increasingly aggressive sexual advances—including one incident in which, similar to Haleyi, Mann says Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was later, on March 18—one month after the alleged incidents in LA—that Mann says she tried to confront Weinstein at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. There, he allegedly coaxed her up to his room, forced her to disrobe and ordered her onto the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got on top of her and he raped her, forcing his penis into her vagina,” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast told jurors on Wednesday. “Jessica just laid there. When he finished, he got off of her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 2015: New York DA decides not to prosecute allegation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, a Filipina-Italian model, reported Weinstein to the New York Police Department for allegedly groping her during a meeting at his Tribeca office. 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The company declares bankruptcy and sells “substantially all” of its assets to Lantern Capital Partners, and it also voids the nondisclosure agreements it had reached with Weinstein’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"original\" class=\"anchor\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>May 25, 2018: Weinstein \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614339339/harvey-weinstein-surrenders-to-authorities-on-sexual-assault-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>surrenders to police\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former producer arrives at the New York Police Department’s 1st Precinct in Lower Manhattan, where he submits to arrest with droves of journalists looking on. 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