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President Trump's Legal Team To Begin Impeachment Defense

The president's lawyers are expected to speak for about three hours on Saturday and focus on events related to President Trump's 2016 campaign.
Jay Sekulow, personal attorney for President Trump, speaks during a news conference in the Senate subway on Friday.

Lawyers representing President Trump get their first shot Saturday to poke holes in the impeachment case made this week by Democrats.

But the topics they bring up may go far beyond the two impeachment charges related to foreign aid in

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