GOP senators seek to acquit Trump without condoning conduct

There is no question, Sen. Lamar Alexander said, that President Donald Trump actions were “inappropriate” when he asked Ukraine's leader to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden.It's also in line with arguments from Trump's legal team, which after initially asserting that the president did “absolutely nothing wrong" moved toward insisting that Trump had done nothing impeachable — and attacked thetrial as a partisan exercise.The evolving arguments have allowed Republicans