Home about what she was going to accept in terms of witnesses, when she returned from the Holiday Season back to the senate, she essentially brought that 1999 clinton resolution to the floor, and she handed it to mcconnells staff, essentially asking them, okay, show me what is going to change in this resolution and what is going to stay the same. We know the majority leader had made it very clear he was going to follow the, quote, clinton motto. But she wanted to see it in writing. She wanted to understand what does that mean in terms of getting witnesses sochlt what transpired was weeks of negotiations between senator collins staff, murkowskis staff, Lamar Alexanders staff and leadership to go over word by word who was going to be in this resolution. So the expectation and we should be cautious here. We have not seen the resolution yet. It hasnt been released. But the expectation is that it will actually include a vote after the presentations of evidence by both sides and a debate fro
All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the United States articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the United States. And with that proclamation by the sergeant at arms, the historic impeachment trial of President Trump is now under way. The chief justice, john roberts, and 99 senators, swearing in this afternoon. Will all senators now stand and remain standing and raise their right hand. Do you solemnly swear that in all things april pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god . And so they swore. Then each senator signed an oath book vowing to be impartial. Already, though, a new twist. The president now in that highstakes back and forth with one of Rudy Giulianis associates about his actions regarding ukraine. What is you
We want to welcome our viewers all around the world and in the United States. This is new day. The impeachment trial of President Trump is officially underway in the senate for just the third time in history. Major developments are expected including details about how the president will run his defense. The rules for the trial will be set and opening arguments will begin next tuesday. But it could be weeks before we learn whether republicans will agree to call witnesses. Also a developing story this morning. The pentagon has confirmed that 11 u. S. Troops were, in fact, injured in last weeks Iranian Missile strikes in iraq targeting u. S. Troops. You will remember the president said there were no casualties. There were casualties. Were learning much more about the 11 troops hurt and what they suffered. Lets begin, though, with the historic impeachment trial. Joining us Jeffrey Toobin, john avalon, and susan glasser. Jeffrey, i think the way people need to look at this is the scripted p
What are you learning and hearing about the president s legal team . We have been hearing there was a chance the president could add people to his legal team as they went along. We have been waiting to find out when they were going to announce this. The president had been back and forth between adding the house republicans, adding new attorneys and now it is the three seasoned attorneys that the president is adding to his team, who have a lot of television appearance. Thats a big factor for the president when deciding when it is hes going to pick we report he was voicing concerns about Pat Cipollone not having a lot of television experience and going on the senate floor and defending him. We know it is going to be Alan Dershowitz, robert ray who succeeded ken starr at the evelyn yang, the wife of office of the independent counsel and ken starr, the hard 2020 president ial candidate andrew yang, is revealing charging prosecutor who lady something that she kept secret bill clintons impea
Attack on housing troops. The question is, why did it take them so long to correct that initial assessment . Also tonight, evelyn yang, the wife of andrew yang, speaking out publicly, revealing painful allegations of being assaulted by her doctor. He was arrested in his office, and he was let back to work. Thats whats very painful is knowing that actually what happened to me could have been prevented. Youre going to hear her unbelievable story, evelyn yangs story later on in this hour, stay tuned. I want to get to todays historic news, the impeachment trial of President Trump officially under way right now, joining me is pamela brown, Amanda Carpenter as well and frank bruni. Frank, the seriousness and gravity of this moment, do you think its sinking in for senators . Theyre going to have to sit in silence for six days a week. I think it is, i hope it is, its hard to believe it wouldnt when they took an oath and the chief justice of the Supreme Court is over there administering an oath