Former President Donald Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin amid a disagreement over his legal strategy. CNN's Elie Honig breaks down what this means for Trump's case.

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Former President Donald Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy.

When Patrick Leahy was briefly transported to the hospital Tuesday night -- just hours after he had been sworn in to preside over the pending impeachment trial of ex-President Donald Trump -- every story on the news noted that the Vermont Democratic senator was 80 years old.

Former President Donald Trump is focusing his political energy on targeting Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, who voted for Trump's impeachment earlier this month.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida railed against GOP Rep. Liz Cheney at the Wyoming state capitol, stirring hundreds of Trump supporters and counter protesters after she voted to impeach the former President.

With former President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial increasingly looking like it will end in acquittal, many Democrats are hoping for a swift trial as short as "a matter of days" -- and are ready to move on to key items of President Joe Biden's agenda, starting with delivering a $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.

A group of Democratic House staffers are drafting what they hope will be a bipartisan message to the Senate about the upcoming impeachment trial, urging senators to take the trauma their aides experienced during the violent insurrection in the Capitol on January 6 seriously, a staffer tells CNN.

CNN's Brianna Keilar breaks down 20 of the GOP's arguments against an impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.