President Donald Trump's lawyers took center stage Saturday as they begin opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial.

Over the course of roughly two hours, they made more than a dozen false or misleading claims, stated that the president did nothing wrong, and promoted conspiracy theories started by Russia.

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President Donald Trump's lawyers took center stage Saturday as they begin their opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial.

Trump was impeached last month for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Both articles of impeachment relate to his efforts to coerce Ukraine to launch politically motivated investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner and Trump's political rival, and the Democratic Party as a whole.

While doing so, the president withheld $391 million in vital military aid to Ukraine, as well as a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately sought and still hasn't gotten.

Beginning around 10 a.m. ET, Trump's defense team began laying out what they say is a preview of "coming attractions" as they argued that the charges against him are constitutionally invalid and should be tossed out.

The Trump team's opening arguments come after three days of opening arguments from seven impeachment managers, lawmakers from the House of Representatives who act as prosecutors in Trump's impeachment trial. The group is led by Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversaw majority of the impeachment hearings against Trump last year.

C-SPAN and TV networks are relying on the Senate's live feed of the trial.

C-SPAN is airing the trial at cspan.org.

Watch the trial below:

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