of whether or not it shall be an order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents. mr. manager schiff, are you a proponent or opponent? proponent. mr. cipollone, are you a proponent or opponent? [ inaudible ] thank you. mr. schiff, you may proceed. before i begin, mr. chief justice, the house managers will be reserving the balance of our time to respond to the argument of counsel for the president. mr. chief justice, senators, fellow house managers and counsel for the president, i know i speak for my fellow managers as well as counsel for the president in thanking you for your careful attention to the arguments that we have made over the course of many long
get over it he said. but if you have any questions about what the real answer is where the truth lies, there s only one way to find out. let s all just question mr. mulvaney under oath during a senate trial. after all, counsel said that cross-examination was the greatest vehicle in the history of american jurisprudence ever invented to ascertain the truth. your standard. finally, i d like to touch briefly on the importance of mr. blair and mr. duffey to this case. the president s lawyers have argued that withholding foreign aid is entirely within his right as commander in chief, that this was a normal ordinary decision and that this is all just one big policy disagreement.
days. today we were greeted to yet another development in the case when the new york times reported with a headline that says, trump told bolton to help his ukraine pressure campaign, book says. the president asked his national security adviser last spring, among other advisers, to pave the way for giuliani a meeting with ukraine s new leader. this was two months before the president asked for the help of his political opponents, to help the presidential campaign to extract damaging information from opponents, according to an unpublished manuscript by mr. bolton. mr. trump gave the instruction that bolton wrote, that included the acting chief of staff mick
testimony of his former advisers and documents speaks volumes. you should allow witnesses and documents so the president can get the fair trial he wanted. but more importantly, so the american people can get the fair trial they deserve. the american people deserve a fair trial. i said it at the onset of this trial that one of the most important decisions you would make that the moment in history would not be whether the presidency and the american people will get a full trial if. the faith in our institution depends on the perception of a fair process. a vote against witnesses and documents undermines that faith. senators, the american people want a fair trial.
the second half of witness statements. the house managers accurately presented the relevant evidence to you. we spent about 20 hours presenting the facts and the evidence. the president s counsel spent four hours focusing on the facts and the evidence. and that evidence shows that the president is guilty. but to the extent certain facts were shown to you, let s be very clear. we are not the ones hiding the facts. the house managers did not hide that evidence. president trump hid the evidence. and that s why we are standing up here asking you to not let the president silence these witnesses and hide these documents. we don t know precisely what the witnesses will say or what the documents will show but we all deserve to hear the truth.