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FILE - In this May 8, 2014, file photo, then Baylor University President Ken Starr testifies at the House Committee on Education and Workforce on college athletes forming unions. in Washington. President Donald Trump's legal team will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton, according to a person familiar with the matter. The team will also include Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

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Trump gets a made-for-TV impeachment defense team

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Zeke Miller Associated PressJanuary 17, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks from the Senate Chamber after the delivery of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to Secretary of the Senate Julie Adams on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Trump’s defenders to play to many audiences in Senate trial

by Zeke Miller Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, Lisa Mascaro Associated Press, and Jonathan Lemire Associated PressJanuary 15, 2020

Attorney General William Barr speaks to reporters at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, to announce results of an investigation of the shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. On Dec. 6, 2019, 21-year-old Saudi Air Force officer, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, opened fire at the naval base in Pensacola, killing three U.S. sailors and injuring eight other people. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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US sends home nearly two dozen Saudi cadets after shooting

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressJanuary 13, 2020

FILE - In this July 31, 2019 file photo, then National security adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington. Bolton says he's 'prepared to testify' in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Bolton willing to testify in impeachment trial if subpoenaed

by Zeke Miller Associated Press, Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressJanuary 6, 2020

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, left, speaks with Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., right, after testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Russia probe report spurs calls for FBI surveillance changes

by Eric Tucker Associated PressDecember 12, 2019

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Watchdog caught in political crossfire on his Russia report

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressDecember 11, 2019

FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, in Washington.

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Trump criticizes FBI head after Russia probe report

by Eric Tucker Associated PressDecember 10, 2019

FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Washington. Wray says the problems found by the Justice Department watchdog examining the origins of the Russia probe are “unacceptable." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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FBI was justified in probing Trump-Russia, fed watchdog says

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressDecember 9, 2019

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., center, with members of the committee, speaking during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Pool photo via AP)

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Impeachment takeaways: History lessons, partisan feuds

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated PressDecember 4, 2019

David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

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Impeachment hearing takeaways: A ‘domestic political errand’

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Aamer Madhani Associated PressNovember 21, 2019