Debating the fifth amendment, democrats thought they might feel gop defections but so far they have not seen one. In the past few hours, this is big, the Washington Post is reporting an hour or two ago that Senate Democrats are considering a trade. I will trade you, my kids have pokemon cards, i will trade you hunter biden for john bolton. Politico also reporting that adam shifts, this is my favorite story of the day, was caught in another by. This time ms. Characterizing a communication from the democrats new darling star witness, love parnas. Guess what, they are caught again. The back of the proceedings, the president s team was led by Pat Cipollone who has been me in the past, he is a dear friend of mine, and impeachment attorney to the president , j sekulow and others, democrats have most of their house managers give presentations today but it was adam schiff who took center stage and it was a curious move given some of the blatant partisan tactics during the house hearing but tha
Request to take back the senate. As of today, they have accomplished that. This with the backdrop of the president s address, across the white house and we will see whether Congress Comes back tonight. I am bill hemmer live in atlanta, and bret baier with special report. We will see you tomorrow. We will go back into recess. To get down under your chairs if necessary so we have folks entering the rotunda and coming down this way. Security at the United States capitol has failed. [chanting usa] bret good evening i am bret baier appeared today on
capitol hill many thought they would not see. A mob breaching security makes it on the house and Senate Floors and into lawmakers offices. After a rally stop this deal where President Trump spoke. You are looking at live pictures of chaos following what is the most significant reach against American Government institution in more than 200 years. Hundreds of protesters storming the peoples house this afternoon following an emotional rally headlin
Rebuttal time just to delay further into any unit senators as they are trying, i would say that it was a raging success on their part. But if the point was to convince people, i think they are off to a terrible start. Schiff has such power in his speech that you are forced to look at him and listen. Just about every republicans eyes were glued to mr. Schiff. So it was a powerful rendition of your dispute once meanwhile, joe biden shutting the door on the idea of a witness walk for him or his son, hunter, to testify. Watch. This is a constitutional issue. We are not going to turn this into a farce, into some kind of political theater. They are trying to turn it into political theater, but i want no part of that. Harris outnumbered. This is it. Harris faulkner. Kennedy. Executive director, marie harf. In the center seat, former House Oversight share and fox news contributor, jason chaffetz. Great to see everybody today. We only have 30 minutes, so it is going to be compressed and powerfu
President trump he restated today after a tweet storm about impeachment yesterday. We begin with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel and a wrap of tonights prosecution. Big emphasis by house impeachment managers making the case in great detail that President Trump abused his pow power. Speaker impeachment is not a punishment for crimes. Impeachment exists to address vets to the political system. Jerry nadler let off the impeachment effort to make the case that President Trump abused his power the senate can take action. Speak of the constitution is not a suicide pact. It does not mean that we are stuck with president s who abuse our power who threaten our sense of security. Then it was congresswoman Sylvia Garcia who said that President Trump abuses power because public suggested joe biden lead impeachment manager adam schiff got a reaction out of senators from this line. Thank god, putin says. Youve got to give double dribble credit for this. Hes made a religious man out of
Mouth, he admitted in a press conference just like this of course we did. It happens all the time, get over it, no mention of the president s chief of staff. My final point before i turn it over. To look away from the fact the president s own chief of staff has admitted to the most pernicious part of the scheme to get ukraine to do these why would they make no mention of that. It gets back to something they argued in the first two minutes of their presentation when they were attacking the house managers, that the goal should be to give you all of the facts. That is our goal. But it is not there is because Mick Mulvaney has some of these facts. Another name you didnt hear was john bolton. John bolton has some of these facts. You didnt hear the name duffy or blair or other witnesses that the president who is so confident that this was about corruption and not trying to smear an opponent want you to hear, the one question they did not address at all is why they dont want to give the Ameri