position. how speaker pelosi tweeting as well, justified her position saying the house cannot choose our impeachment matters until we know what sort of trial the senate will conduct. president trump blocked his own witnesses and documents in the house and from the american people on phony complaints about the house process, what is his excuse now western mark with congress outcome of this will continue the impasse. dana: senate minority leader chuck schumer. he wrote to all senators, chuck schumer wants the administration to cough up documents proving why exactly withheld aid from ukraine over the summer. he writes there simply is no good reason why evidence that s directly relevant to the conduct at issue in the articles of impeachment should be withheld from the senate and the american people. to oppose the admission of this evidence would be to turn a willfully blind eye to the facts and would clearly be at odds with the obligation of senators
susan, let me just read some of what we re hearing from leadership. pelosi tweeting today on a senate impeachment trial, quote, the house cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of a trial the senate will conduct. president trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the house and from the american people on phony complaints about the house process. what is his excuse now? this was the response from lindsey graham. trump ally. he says stop playing games with the constitution and our system. you can t be the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader at the same time. the senate will decide how we dispose of this sham created by the house. here s my question. speaker pelosi clearly thinks this is her best leverage. her best chance at pushing for some of these witnesses. to come forward. is this an effective strategy? could she, at the end of the day, actually get some witnesses? it s a two-fold strategy that makes sense. first is, she let donal
new details on the efforts to unite house democrats after recent in fighting between the progressives and moderates. nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett has the details. reporter: pelosi tweeting this photo trying to show her drift with alexandria ocasio-cortez is over. we had a good meeting and congresswoman is a very gracious member of congress. as always i think the speaker respects, you know, the fact that we are coming together as a party. reporter: both down playing the democratic drama brewing in the public for weeks. pelosi disagreed on key issues like impeachment, and the green due deal and immigration.
voters in states where he s going to need their support and say, i have followed through on my promises of immigration, i ve built the wall, when he has not. the court will use this ruling to their advantage and hopefully for them accelerate the construction of the border wall. it was interesting to see what justice brier wrote about this court opinion yesterday evening. he said this is sort of a risky move for the court to approve of, because this allows for construction, not just preparatory work, but actual construction of a border wall, and that is something that is quite difficult to undo if president trump ends up losing this legal battle and the supreme court early on. i have to say, i m seeing the footage of all this, but anyway, we ever house speaker pelosi tweeting the decision to allows the president, quote, to steal
nancy pelosi, john mccain, russia, ireland, even meghan markle all have managed to get under president trump s skin in the past week or so, and as you might have noticed, that skin is decidedly thin. of course, you remember his attacks on pelosi tweeting out manipulated video to make her look drunk after she hurt his feelings before a meeting. then news at the white house wanted the uss john mccain, a destroyer docked in japan, out of sight for trump s safe visit there because the late senator apparently still gets trump all kinds of hot and bothered. here was the president on thursday. we ll probably be able to find without did it. they thought they were doing me a favor because they know i m not a fan of john mccain. so i wasn t a fan of john mccain, i never will be.