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Trump Defense Team Makes Opening Arguments

By Philip Ewing • Jan 25, 2020

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President Trump's defense team began its arguments today in his Senate impeachment trial. NPR election security editor Phil Ewing has been covering the story. Phil, thanks so much for being with us.

PHIL EWING, BYLINE: Hi, Scott.

A Trump Spokesman On The Administration's Ukraine Policy

By Scott Simon • Jan 25, 2020

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Remembering A Congressman Who Bucked His Party On An Impeachment

By Scott Simon • Jan 25, 2020

When I met Tom Railsback a few years ago, he told me he'd worried about going to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Peoria in the fall of 1974.

Tom Railsback of Illinois was a middle-aged Republican congressman from the middle of a state in the middle of America when he was on the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 that heard the case for impeachment against President Richard Nixon.

Mr. Railsback greatly admired President Nixon. "His opening of the door to China," he told me, "had to be the most brilliant foreign policy move ever."