Trump Defense Team Prepares For Final Day of Opening Arguments

President Trump's defense team is expecting to use only two to three hours on the Senate floor on Tuesday to finish laying out their case against impeachment, a source familiar with the legal team's thinking told NPR's Tamara Keith.

Trump's lawyers, which began their arguments Saturday, had 24 hours over three days to make their case — the same time given to the Democratic House impeachment managers who presented their arguments against the president last week.

Shortly before winding down Monday night's arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President...

President Trump’s defense team is poised to present its third and final day of opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial in the Senate, as a debate rages outside the chamber over whether to call witnesses before its conclusion.

Pressure has ramped up to include witnesses after reports that former national security adviser John Bolton says in a book manuscript that Trump directly tied the holdup of nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine to investigations of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

The crux...