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<v 0>They're all things appertaining to the trial,</v>

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the impeachment of Donald John Trump.

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<v 1>Situation before we've never had a former president who is going to go through</v>

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an impeachment trial in the Senate,

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and Republicans will spend much of this trial arguing that there's a reason for

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that. This is outside the bounds of the constitution,

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that this is not a precedent that should be set. Uh,

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they really feel like this is a former president at this point,

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someone who's a private citizen should no longer be subject to this process.

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Uh, there is some precedent for this happening with judges, um,

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not with a president before. Um,

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but Democrats argue that this is well within the bounds.

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They have legal scholars that, that argue their vantage point of this as well.

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And they also will argue that this is necessary,

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that this is something that the country needs to have happen because of

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what occurred on January 6th at the us Capitol,

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that this was a searing moment in American history and that someone,

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the president in this case, a former president needs to be held to account.

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<v 0>Gotcha. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.</v>

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<v 1>At this point,</v>

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the Trump legal team's position does seem to focus largely on process.

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They do not want to get into a debate over whether the president's words

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around the election were the trigger for what we saw happen at the Capitol.

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They want to very much focus on the idea that Democrats are overreaching,

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that they're going beyond the bounds of the constitution.

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I do think that they will have no choice,

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but to deal with the reality of what Democrats will argue,

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which is that the president is directly responsible for the riots.

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I think that will be hard for the Trump legal team to ignore completely.

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We see that the public is largely split on whether Trump should be convicted in

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the Senate trial,

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but we do see that the majority of Americans think that he bears at least some

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responsibility for what happened on January 6th. And,

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and the reason that you see a little bit of a disconnect there is that there are

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some people who feel like he's partially responsible that he played some role

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that his rhetoric around the election played some role in inspiring people to

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storm the Capitol, but they don't necessarily feel that that,

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that he bears the full responsibility, the full weight of what happened there.

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And so they don't feel like he needs to be impeached for it.