Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of the government. For just the third time in u. S. History a president faces an impeachment trial in the u. S. Senate. That trial will begin in earnest this afternoon at 1 p. M. Eastern. 35 minutes from now. U. S. Senate itself will gavel in shortly at 12 30 p. M. Eastern as the leaders come in to officially begin the senate session. We expect him to come in briefly and then gavel out up until 1 00 eastern. You are watching live coverage on cspan2 which the saturn will include that senate trial. We may also see the arrival of the chief Justice John Roberts who will preside over the session this afternoon. Will preside over all of the impeachment trial. Heres how the day will output the scheduled for today. They come in at 1 00 eastern. They will they will debate and then vote on the trial rules. Those rules announced yesterday by the majority leader mitch mcconnell. Also debate today and vote on a
The support of the majority of the senate. Thats because it sets up a structure that is they are, evenhanded, and tracks closely with past president s that were established unanimously. After pretrial business the resolution establishes the four things that need to happen next. First, the senate will hear an opening presentation from the house managers. Second, we will hear from the president s council. Third, senators will be able to seek further information by posing written questions to either side through the chief justice. And, fourth, with all that information in hand the senate will consider whether we feel any additional evidence or witness, witnesses are necessary to evaluate whether the house case has cleared or failed to clear the high bar of overcoming the presumption of innocence and undoing a democratic election. The senate its their process will draw a sharp contrast with the unfair and president breaking inquiry that was carried on by the house of representatives. The h
President donald trump will begin shortly, 1 00 eastern just a minute or two away. We heard the opening comments from beginning the Senate Session from the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell come from the democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Yesterday the majority leader released a resolution that will guide the impeachment trial that will consume all of the debate today and the majority leader saying senators should quote, we should remain in session today until we complete the resolution. Resolution. You can read that resolution at cspan. Org. That Resolution Says this. It says the managers and the president s attorneys will each have up to 24 hours over two days, thats a total of 48 hours to present their cases. Centered one of the 16 hours for questions, motions to subpoena witnesses and documents, four hours of debate and then following that deliberation and vote on witnesses and documents. You heard from the democratic leader Chuck Schumer that he will offer a a number of amendments to
Troops to leave. And defying volcano evacuation orders in the philippines some return home despite warnings of an imminent explosive eruption. The names of those who lead the prosecution of u. S. President donald trump during his impeachment trial have been announced and in less than an hour the house will vote to send the articles to the u. S. Senate House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the Prosecution Team naming adam schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee as leader trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rivals joe biden the trial is expected to begin on thursday. The emphasis is making a strong with possible pace to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the American People im very proud and honored that these 7 members distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility again to protect and defend for that people defending our democracy well springs while
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