Deep Dive (Feb. 9): Sen. Lindsey Graham on Impeachment: ‘Open Up Pandora’s Box’

Tiffany Meier
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Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial starts Wednesday. His defense team is urging the Senate to dismiss the case, calling it a brazen “political act.”

We look at what each side is arguing: from the article of impeachment to the 78-page brief from Trump’s defense lawyers.

A rising number of criminal complaints that the Jan. 6 Capitol breach had been pre-planned. And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said recently that parts of the Capitol incident had been coordinated well before Trump’s Jan. 6 speech. He said on Fox News at the beginning of the month, “There’s mounting evidence that the people who came to Washington preplanned the attack before the president ever spoke.”

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