President Trump's Senate trial: Key moments from Day 1 of the question and answer phase.
Later in the day, Dershowitz argued that the vast majority of legal scholars who disagree with him would feel differently if a Democratic president were on trial.
"These scholars are influenced by their own bias, by their own politics, and their views should be taken with that in mind," he added."They simply do not give objective assessments of the constitutional history." "The president is the executive branch. He is irreplaceable," Dershowitz said emphatically in response to a question from five GOP senators who asked how the framers would view removing a president if only one political party supported the president's impeachment.Republicans asked two questions about why House managers never sought legal challenges to White House claims of executive privilege.
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