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| Trump impeachment trial set to begin amid damaging new Ukraine revelations – live | Trump impeachment trial set to begin amid damaging new Ukraine revelations – live |
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| House prosecutors to arrive at Senate to formally open trial as Lev Parnas tells reporters president was fully aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine | House prosecutors to arrive at Senate to formally open trial as Lev Parnas tells reporters president was fully aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine |
| Yesterday, the House voted to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting in motion the third impeachment Senate trial in US history. | |
| Here’s how that looks today: | |
| 12pm ET (5pm GMT): Prosecutors from the House of Representatives, known as “managers”, are expected to arrive to the Senate to formally exhibit the articles of impeachment. | |
| 2pm (7pm): US supreme court chief justice John Roberts is scheduled to join the proceedings and be sworn in for his presiding role at the trial. | |
| Then: Roberts will swear-in 100 senators – 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents – as jurors. | |
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| The White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, just spoke with Fox & Friends about Lev Parnas and said the Trump administration was “not too concerned” about his allegations. She also questioned Parnas’s trustworthiness and his motives. | |
| Lev Parnas said while he did not speak directly with Donald Trump about efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating the former vice-president Joe Biden, a political rival, he had met with the president several times. Parnas also said Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, told Parnas he was updating Trump in an interview with the New York Times. | |
| Parnas is facing criminal charges in federal court, so he is not the most reliable witness, but a trove of his documents released to House investigators provided fresh evidence of the close relationship between Parnas and Giuliani ahead of the Senate trial. Trump has denied misconduct. | Parnas is facing criminal charges in federal court, so he is not the most reliable witness, but a trove of his documents released to House investigators provided fresh evidence of the close relationship between Parnas and Giuliani ahead of the Senate trial. Trump has denied misconduct. |
| “My biggest regret is trusting so much,” Parnas said. “I thought I was being a patriot and helping the president,” he said, adding that he “thought by listening to the president and his attorney that I couldn’t possibly get in trouble or do anything wrong”. | |
| Parnas’s statements to the Times echo a similar interview he gave to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday and Anderson Cooper on CNN. | Parnas’s statements to the Times echo a similar interview he gave to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday and Anderson Cooper on CNN. |
| Giuliani and Trump’s efforts were “all about 2020”, Parnas told CNN. | |
| “That was the most important thing,” Parnas said, “for him to stay on for four years and keep the fight going. I mean, there was no other reason for doing it.” | “That was the most important thing,” Parnas said, “for him to stay on for four years and keep the fight going. I mean, there was no other reason for doing it.” |
| Hello and good morning | Hello and good morning |
| A key player at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, Lev Parnas, has told reporters Donald Trump was fully aware of his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s political rivals, just as the Senate prepares to be sworn-in for the trial. | A key player at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, Lev Parnas, has told reporters Donald Trump was fully aware of his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s political rivals, just as the Senate prepares to be sworn-in for the trial. |
| Parnas, a businessman and GOP donor, told MSNBC Trump “knew exactly what was going on”. He told the New York Times: “I am betting my whole life that Trump knew exactly everything that was going on that Rudy Giuliani was doing in Ukraine.” | Parnas, a businessman and GOP donor, told MSNBC Trump “knew exactly what was going on”. He told the New York Times: “I am betting my whole life that Trump knew exactly everything that was going on that Rudy Giuliani was doing in Ukraine.” |
| Trump has denied misconduct, and it’s unclear how much this new material will be absorbed into the Senate impeachment trial. | Trump has denied misconduct, and it’s unclear how much this new material will be absorbed into the Senate impeachment trial. |
| House prosecutors are expected to arrive at the Senate midday to complete a set of procedural rituals that will formally open the third impeachment trial in the Senate in US history. | House prosecutors are expected to arrive at the Senate midday to complete a set of procedural rituals that will formally open the third impeachment trial in the Senate in US history. |
| Trump, meanwhile, has a quiet schedule for the day besides an announcement about prayer in schools in the afternoon. | Trump, meanwhile, has a quiet schedule for the day besides an announcement about prayer in schools in the afternoon. |
| We’ll have live updates from the Capitol as well as from the presidential campaign trail. | We’ll have live updates from the Capitol as well as from the presidential campaign trail. |