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Sen. Churck Grassley (R-IA) spoke on the Senate floor about how he's planning to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump and explained his reasons.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) spoke on the Senate floor about how she's planning to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump and explained her reasons.
Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal spoke about his admiration for the civil servants who testified in the impeachment investigation, citing Col. Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill among others. He went on to talk about his reasons for voting guilty.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price talks to reporters about the Hawkeye State's 2020 caucus results, whose release was delayed due to technical issues with the state party's reporting system.
Sen. Susan Collins said she will vote to acquit the President on both articles because the House failed to meet the necessary burden of proof and the public should decide whether to remove President Trump, not Congress.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price spoke briefly to reporters about the Hawkeye State's 2020 caucus results, which were delayed due to technical issues with the state party's reporting system. Mr. Price said 62 percent of those results would be released shortly after his statement, and said the party was committed tor reviewing what went wrong to prevent it from happening again.
Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse conceded that President Trump will most likely be acquitted, but he lamented the arguments put forth by the President's defense, and doubted that they would have been offered in a regular court of law. He strongly counselled that no precedent should be set as a result of this Impeachment trial. He was followed by Minnesota Democrat Tina Smith, who announced her vote to convict and went over her reasons, including retelling the timeline of President Trump withholding aid to Ukraine. She goes on to say that acquittal would mean that the President is above the law, and that she's "greatly disappointed" in the Senate for not voting to hear from witnesses, a break from tradition, and that he can be acquitted, but not exonerated.
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke forcefully about his reasons for voting to acquit, and laid out several theories as to why the investigation proceeded, including criticizing the intelligence community and claiming that there was a conspiracy to topple Pres. Trump among the Democrats and those members of the intelligence community. He specifically mentions the FISA courts and what he called "secret meetings" that eroded civil liberties in the U.S. He also read the question that was rejected by Chief Justice Roberts that names the alleged whistle blower.
Sen. Churck Grassley (R-IA) spoke on the Senate floor about how he's planning to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump and explained his reasons.
