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members of the senate, good evening. my name is michael perpura. i serve as deputy counsel to the president. we strongly oppose the amendment and support the resolution. there is simply no need to alter the process on witnesses and documents from that of the clinton trial, which was supported by this body 100-0. at its core, this case is very simple, and the key facts are undisputed. first, you ve seen the transcripts which the president released transparently, unprecedentedly. there was no quid pro quo for anything. security assistance funds aren t even mentioned on the call. second, president zelensky and the highest ranking officials in the ukrainian government repeatedly have said there was no quid pro quo, and there was no pressure. third, the ukrainians were not even aware of the pause in the aid at the time of the call and weren t aware of it, did not become aware of it until more than a month later. fourth, the only witnesses in the house record who actually spo ....
citing a quick trial and an acquittal. the president is in switzerland. we have the complete coverage of all that is happening tonight. bret: we begin tonight with correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill. good evening to you. before about on the resolution, democrats are offering an amendment to try to make some tweaks such as demanding white house documents and state department documents. earlier this afternoon there was a change to the guidelines set by majority leader mitch mcconnell. he agreed that each side will have up to 24 hours over three days to present their opening arguments. initially it was supposed to be over two days. the house record will now be admitted as evidence while originally it was going to be left out. senator susan collins and others requested changes from senator mcconnell and over today s luncheon. she is seen as a key to having a vote in critical stages of the trial. senator chuck schumer was thrilled about the change from hitting mo ....
welcome back, i m ari melber. the senate has updated their dinner break to say the senators will reconvene momentarily. one senator was supposed to join us in an additional interview and they had to go back to the floor. any minute this trial could reconvene and we will bring it to you. our panel of experts is here and we are joined by my colleague, lawrence o donnell, host of the last word with lawrence o donnell and as noted, senate veteran on the staff side. i want to show you something we have not had time to bring up. we counted up how the time was used. in day one when it was all that rules fighting, potential witnesses, they used most of their time, 56%. you might say not all of it, but quite a lot. compare that, lawrence, to the trump defense team using a paltry 12%. what does that tell you about the strategy? i think that tells us what is going to happen when they take over for the defense. the volume is going to be much higher. there will be yelling. ther ....
he must be removed from office. americans get a fair trial. and so i ask you, i implore you, give america a fair trial. give america a fair trial. she s worth it. it remains to be seen if those arguments will resonate with a republican-controlled senate. in the meantime, trump s legal team is expected to make a very difference case for more on what to expect, we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. reporter: this is going to be a briefly overview of the case. we do only expect three hours of so of opening arguments on that team s side. what jay sekulow said, the president s attorney, it s generally going to be an overview of details and then monday and tuesday when the senate returns into session, expect a full-floated offense of the president s action trying to paint everything he did in ukraine in the most favorable way. and expect them to go after joe biden, the former vice president and the former vice president s son. and one question is whether or not pat cipo ....
familiar with the matter who say that trump used the july 25th conversation with ukraine president zelenskiy to pressure him to more aggressively pursue an investigation trump believed would deliver potential political dirt against one of the president s political adversaries, joe biden. again, just to reiterate, a president who spent three years that he colluded with a foreign power to get dirt on his political enemies has been caught red-handed doing just that. and this comes today after the president declined to say whether he discussed the former vice president joe biden s family in that phone call with the ukrainian president, a call he insists was appropriate. did you discuss joe biden, his son, or his family with the leader of ukraine? it doesn t matter what i discussed did you ask him joe biden during the conversation? i don t want to talk about any conversation other than to say great conversation, totally appropriate conversation, couldn t have been ....