CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin described House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) opening statement at the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday as “dazzling.”
“I thought that the way that he wove through both the facts of the case and the historical context was really remarkable,” Toobin said during the trial’s first recess of the day.
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin:
Adam Schiff was “dazzling.”
pic.twitter.com/EFHZ2Lc3WU— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 22, 2020
Toobin added that it was the second best courtroom address he’s heard in his life.
Schiff spoke for about two and a half hours, during which he covered the timeline of the impeachment proceedings to this point, including numerous pieces of evidence and video testimony from the House hearings.
“If people are listening, it’s very hard to imagine that they will think that the Democrats and the House managers are making this up,” Toobin added.
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WATCH: CNN's chief legal analyst: Schiff's courtroom address was "second best" I've ever seen https://t.co/q06yBHlHu6 pic.twitter.com/WfBBPuDdPQ
— The Hill (@thehill) January 23, 2020
In watching Schiff’s excellent lay down of evidence, timeline & actions, I’m distracted.
What else was going on – with Russia, Saudi Arabia, N Korea, Turkey, etc – where descriptive records aren’t available? This can’t be a stand-alone cluster.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) January 23, 2020
Schiff is laying out a narrative that is so clear – and undeniable, because it is rooted in a huge amount of documents and testimony – that the President’s defenders only have the choice now of looking complicit, stupid, or immoral (or all three) in rejecting it.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 23, 2020
Schiff taunting the Republicans about how all the records are theirs for the asking if they want them. pic.twitter.com/7nT7qrtcSe
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 23, 2020
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