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Headline Roundup February 4th, 2020

Watch: Closing Arguments Set Up Final Impeachment Vote on Wednesday

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The final arguments in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial were held Monday, as House impeachment managers and the president's legal defense made closing attempts to influence how senators would lean in Wednesday's scheduled vote on whether or not to remove Trump from office. Watch Trump defense lawyer Ken Starr's closing argument here, and lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff's final remarks here.

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Democrats appeal to senators’ faith in final argument to convict President Trump
Democrats appeal to senators’ faith in final argument to convict President Trump

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WASHINGTON — House impeachment managers, failing to get the Senate to subpoena witnesses in the trial of President Donald Trump, turned their sights Monday to the long-shot goal of removing a president from office for the first time in history.

In impassioned speeches, several laced with religious language and messages, the prosecutors asked senators to be numbered among the “Davids who slew Goliath” by exercising faith in the Founding Fathers and to convict Trump, who is “guilty as sin.”

“They gave you a remedy and they meant for you to...

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Factbox: Trump impeachment - What happens next?
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(Reuters) - Closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump were completed on Monday in the U.S. Senate as the Republican president appeared headed to an acquittal on Wednesday.

Monday Feb. 3

* The Senate trial resumed at 11 a.m. (1600 GMT) with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding. Over four hours, Trump’s lawyers and House of Representatives’ Democratic prosecutors delivered their closing arguments.

* The Senate then recessed and subsequently went into a regular session to hear speeches from senators on whether Trump should be convicted or acquitted. Roberts...

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Democrats And Trump’s Lawyers Made Their Final Arguments In The Impeachment Trial
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial continued Monday with closing arguments from both legal teams, setting up a likely acquittal vote on Wednesday afternoon.

House Democrats and Trump’s lawyers had a total of four hours to make their cases before the trial wraps up. Though Trump had hoped to have the trial ended quickly — and before his State of the Union address Tuesday night — senators will take Tuesday off and vote on whether to remove him from office on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Trump was charged with...

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