House impeachment managers picked up the pace and sharpened their rhetoric in their third and final day of argument time
Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, speaks during a news conference in the Senate Subway at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.
On the obstruction of Congress article, the managers spent hours arguing that Trump was unlike any prior president in asserting sweeping immunity from congressional oversight, and claims of executive privilege unmoored from any stated rationale.
Calling executive privilege “the last refuge of the president’s team to conceal the evidence from the American people,” Schiff argued that Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, should “decide issues of evidence and privilege” whenever witnesses or the president claim it, but that the assumption Trump will try to silence certain witnesses by claiming executive privilege should not keep the Senate from calling them to testify.
As as he has done each evening, Schiff batted clean-up, and summed up the House’s case. Going methodically through the charges against Trump, he concluded each had been proven, and defended his committee’s and his chamber’s proceedings against the anticipated attacks by the president’s attorneys once they get their three days of arguments on Saturday.
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