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
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Good morning, everybody. Its wednesday, january 22nd, im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside Ayman Mohyeldin after 13 hours of debate the senate has passedmen mcconnell resolution laying out the ground rules for President Trumps impeachment trial. Senate republicans rejected 11 amendments most of which were seeking subpoenas from documents to the Trump Administration. Last minute changes to mcconnells proposed rules came earlier in the day. Republicans reversed their original plan for arguments to take place over two days. Now each side will have 24 hours to speak over the course of three days. Several republicans have voiced concern about the original schedule including senator collins of maine, rob portland of ohio and Lisa Murkowski of alaska. Mcconnell could have changed the provision that would have barred impeachment inquiry. And shortly after midnight, house prosecutor jerry nadler took to the floor over the eighth amendment, to subpoena john bolton. What happened neck was a heated exp
Until just before 2b a. M. , a long 2 00 a. M. , a long day with the most significant moment coming at the beginning a retreat from Mitch Mcconnell, and the most heated moment right at the end. It was well after midnight when chief roberts scolded them for their language and rhetoric in the chamber. He even whipped out the word heady fogging. Stop it. Really. Well play it in a moment. Republicans successfully stopped everything offered by democrats. As well as documents for from four different departments. The president was impeached and is on trial for allegedly abusing his power to investigate the bidens and then blocking the investigation into his actions. In the end, republicans approved Mitch Mcconnells rules for this trial. The majority leader made changes after getting push back from both moderate and conservative members. Both sides will now get three days for opening arguments instead of two. And the evidence from the house investigation will be the trial resumes this afternoo
Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell issued the guidelines for the Senate Impeachment trial, his democratic counterpoint called the resolution a, quote, national disgrace. Senator Chuck Schumer said the resolution will make it harder to get witnesses and documents, and he said mcconnell was, quote, going along with trumps cover up hook, line and sinker. Mcconnells resolution will allow as many hours for opening arguments as in the clinton impeachment, 24 each side but whats different is theyll be divided over two days instead of four days as they were in the clinton impeachment, meaning the trial may lapse into the hours of the evening where fewer people are awake to watch them. Im joined now by who will be a juror for the trike, mazie hirono of hawaii. Thanks for being here. What do you make of this resolution from mcconnell . Good evening. Is it politics . Of course it is. So what he wants is a fast trial, not a fair trial. And so this is what we have. We could have motions in the beginni