10 Dec 2019

House Judiciary committee lay the case for impeaching Trump

From First Up, 5:10 am on 10 December 2019

To the US now, where lawyers for the Democrats and Republicans are laying out the case for - and against - impeaching President Trump at a hearing. Early on in the proceedings, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler was inturrupted by a demonstrator. In the Democrats' presentation laying out their argument for impeachment, they repeatedly used President Trump's own words against him, including a video clip of Trump saying, "I have the right to do whatever I want as President." Our correspondent in the US is Kevin McAleese and he joins us now.