"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," Dershowitz said. Your election is in the public interest." "And if a president did something that he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment." I think I'm the greatest president there ever was and if I'm not elected, the national interest will suffer greatly.' Trump's legal team does not concede that the President attempted a quid pro quo.

Source: CNN January 29, 2020 20:00 UTC