to 9. welcome to the program the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump has begun with senate republicans blocking democratic attempts to take documents and evidence in a bitter debate over proposed rules democrats accused republicans of a cover up trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice the reports on a longer opening day that stretching well into the night our founders trusted the senate to rise above short term passions at the last moment senate majority leader mitch mcconnell altered his proposed rules for the impeachment trial gone was the possibility that the evidence collected during the various house inquiries might not be entered into evidence in the senate trial of the democratic party house managers and white house lawyers would now have 3 days and not 2 to make their opening statements that left the issue of witnesses and documents house democrats argue that they were withheld in the course of their inquiries into whether donald t
democrats have introduced which is awesome for a subpoena for john bolton president trump s former national security adviser to give evidence but then the debate about this bolton amendment soon descended into something much bigger and we wondered whether this is just the result of 12 hours of debate in the anger suddenly overflowing because maybe this this process is coming to an end this part of the impeachment trial is coming to an end but one of the house managers gerry knopfler seconds said that the votes against having witnesses were treacherous and then suddenly in rebuttal the trump and white house lawyers exploded back and said well the jury not donald trump that apology that he should be ashamed leading to chief justice john roberts who s presiding over the trial admonished both sides he said that the language had to be conducive to polite debate and so on so suddenly things exploded in the 12th hour off this of this debate they all voted on whether john bolton shou