Senators asked a whopping 93 questions of House impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal defense team Wednesday, the first day of the question-and-answer phase of the impeachment trial.
After spending the first week of the trial in silence while House impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal team made their cases, senators now have the opportunity to ask any burning questions, read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Once the Q&A period wraps up, the Senate will move on to debate whether to call witnesses.
Here are the most notable answers from Wednesday’s session:
Philbin’s answer to Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) …read more
Source:: TPM
