'BradCast' 1/22/2020 (Guest: Martin Longman of Washington Monthly)
b"On today's 'BradCast': Our special coverage continues of the historic, ongoing U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald John Trump. We recap what happened over the last two days of the proceedings with audio highlights, including important moments from the contentious Tuesday marathon session that ended at 2am Eastern after almost 13 hours, when Republicans voted along party lines to block 11 different amendments proposed by Democrats to subpoena documents and first-hand witnesses to Trump's alleged high crimes and misdemeanors. Trump repeated his false claims to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, lying that he would "love" to have Bolton, acting White House Chief of Staff Mulvaney, Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, and former Energy Secretary Rick Perry testify at the Senate trial, but he just can't due to "national security" and "executive privilege" concerns. The White House lawyers' defense at the trial was not well received, even by Republicans, including Chris Wallace of Fox "News," conservative constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley, and George Conway, longtime Republican attorney and activist husband of Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway.\\xa0 MARTIN LONGMAN of Washington Monthly and the Progressive Pond joins us for analysis and commentary on the first day of House Impeachment managers' opening arguments (which could also be their closing argument, if Senate Republicans again block witness subpoenas), McConnell's "scam trial" and why Republicans seem to "lose every round and still win" -- going back as far as the Florida 2000 election. We close today Rep. Adam Schiff's chillingly apt warning from founder Alexander Hamilton..."