Now you'll also hear the defense -- the president said there was no quid pro quo. This is a well-known principle of criminal law that if the defendant says he didn't do it he couldn't have done it. That doesn't hold up in any court in the land. It shouldn't hold up here.
Schiff rebutted the defense's claim of no quid pro quo, emphasizing legal principles.
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