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'Let's find out the truth': Fox News host battles Jim Jordan over why there should be witnesses in a trial

Fox News host Martha MacCallum challenged Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a member of the president's impeachment defense team, about why Republicans will not allow witnesses in Donald Trump's Senate trial.

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'It's pretty much over': Ex-RNC chief Michael Steele says ruse to call witnesses is 'head fake' by McConnell

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Wednesday said that the Senate trial of President Donald Trump is "over" for all practical purposes.

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Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows tutoring GOP senators on what to ask in Q&A phase of impeachment trial: report

Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC), members of President Donald Trump's impeachment defense team, are reportedly coaching Republican senators ahead of the next portion of the Senate trial.

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Former Trump official worries about the president’s mental state: ‘How long can this be ignored?’

President Donald Trump's mental fitness for office was called into question after a campaign rally in New Jersey.

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Watch Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell on the GOP effort to convict Trump for President Pence

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Tuesday reported on the effort by "Republicans for the Rule of Law" to convince GOP senators that the party may be better off with Mike Pence in the Oval Office.

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GOP choice could be a fair Senate trial now — or a criminal trial in New York this summer: law professor

The decision facing Senate Republicans is not whether or not to allow witnesses, but is actually whether they want Donald Trump's trial to take place in the U.S. Senate now, or in New York state criminal court closer to the 2020 presidential election, according to Fordham Law Prof. Jed Shugerman.

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John Bolton is ‘annoyed as hell’ at how Trump is coming after him: former RNC chairman

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is angry with the White House after Trump supporters lashed out at him after The New York Times published excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.

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Votes of 10 - 12 Republicans are ‘in play’ as Democrats seek witnesses for impeachment trial

The political winds may have shifted in Washington, DC as the White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) seeks to block witnesses during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump rallies his South Jersey supporters as impeachment trial continues in DC

Defense lawyers representing President Donald Trump finished their opening arguments in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Tuesday, shortly before the defendant departed for a campaign rally in New Jersey.

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WaPo reporter describes how former White House staffers run from 'mafia-caliber loyalty' after leaving Trump

President Donald Trump's history of thinking that loyalty is a one-way street have come back to haunt him.

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Here is why Donald Trump may lose big if a judge rules on executive privilege

One of Robert Mueller's top deputies laid out a provocative legal theory about why President Donald Trump may not want to litigate the issue of executive privilege.

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Jared Kushner: 'Impeachment is going great' and Trump 'has been totally vindicated'

The White House is already taking a victory lap after President Donald Trump's legal team finished their argument before the Senate on Tuesday.

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'White House is prepared to escalate and they have their allies in the Senate to call additional witnesses': MSNBC reporter

White House correspondent Hans Nichols explained Tuesday that President Donald Trump's team is "prepared to escalate" if the Senate decides to call John Bolton to testify.

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