How to watch Trump's historic impeachment trial in the Senate

Associated Press

Reporters at the Capitol want more cameras in the Senate to cover the impeachment trial and fewer restrictions to talk to senators when they are not sitting in judgment of the president.

• On Tuesday, January 21, arguments in the historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will begin in earnest in the US Senate.
• Republican Senate leadership has been sharply criticized for the burdensome restrictions it set on press access to the trial.
• C-SPAN and TV networks will be barred from bringing their own cameras into the Senate chamber, meaning those networks will rely on the Senate's feed.
• While the trial is set to be broadcast on those major cable and broadcast networks, there are also multiple ways to watch it without a cable subscription or log-in.
• Using the Senate feed, C-SPAN is set to air the trial and live-stream it online. And at least one cable network, CNN, will be live streaming the trial online without requiring a cable log-in.
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On Tuesday, January 21, the historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will begin in earnest in the US Senate.

Senators will debate and vote on the trial's rules on Tuesday, and opening arguments are set to begin on Wednesday afternoon.

Seven House impeachment managers will spend two days presenting their opening arguments in their case for convicting Trump on the two articles of impeachment that the House passed in December.

Then, Trump's defense team, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow, will present opening arguments in his defense. After four marathon days of opening arguments, Senators will vote on whether to call additional witnesses to testify.

Republican Senate leadership has been sharply criticized for the burdensome restrictions it set on press access to the trial.

They include drastically limiting reporters' access to interview Senators and barring C-SPAN and other major networks from broadcasting the trial with their own cameras, meaning they will have to rely on the Senate's own feed within the chamber.

How to watch:

C-SPAN and TV networks will rely on the Senate's live feed of the trial filmed with Congress' own cameras, which are operated by US Senate employees who will control what the public does and does not see.

While the trial is set to be broadcast on those major cable and broadcast networks, there are also multiple ways to watch it without a cable subscription or log-in.

C-SPAN will show the trial on the air and live-stream it for free without requiring a cable login at cspan.org.

CNN will be live-streaming the entire trial on CNN.com and won't require a cable subscription or login, a publicist for the network told Insider.

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