People are scared. Live from studio 6a in rockefeller plaza, all in starts right now. Hello, everybody. Cheering and applause] how are we doing . Good to see you. Good to see you at home. Thank you. Great to be back here in 30 rock for another historic week. For just the third time in u. S. History, a Senate Impeachment trial of a sitting president has begun. Chief justice john roberts, who will preside over the trial of donald trump, he was sworn in yesterday. You may have watched it. All of the senators got to sign the little book, which seems like a yearbook ritual or something. They had to pledge that they will be impartial. Theyre now sitting at impartial jurors. The beginning of the trial comes after basically a monthlong pause was put on the process engineered by speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Remember, the house voted to impeach donald trump for abuse of power and obstruction of congress way back on december 18th, and then Speaker Pelosi basically said, im not sending them
Powerful Closing Argument from house leader or lead manager, adam schiff. Take a listen. Whether you like the president or you dislike the president is immaterial. Its all about the constitution and his misconduct. If it meets the standard of impeachable conduct as we have proved, it doesnt matter whether you like him. It doesnt matter whether you dislike him. What matters is whether he is a danger to the country because he will do it again. And none of us can have confidence based on his record that he will not do it again because he is telling us every day that he will. So even though it wasnt mentioned by the managers, adam schiff and all the others, as he was making his closing, there was a story breaking that has major relevance not only to this trial, but the central idea of whether or not these senators know what they need to know. What is this story . It is proof of this president s perfty, tape of him reportedly talking to lev parnas, and they are having a direct conversation,
Whether you like the president or you dislike the president is immaterial. Its all about the constitution and his misconduct. If it meets the standard of impeachable conduct as we have proved, it doesnt matter whether you like him. It doesnt matter whether you dislike him. What matters is whether he is a danger to the country because he would do it again. And none of us can have confidence based on his record that he will not do it again because he is telling us every day that he will. So, even though it wasnt mentioned by the managers, adam schiff and all the others, as he was making his closing, there was a story breaking that has major relevance not only to this trial but the central idea of whether or not these senators know what they need to know. What is the story . It is proof of this president s perfity, tape of him reportedly talking to lev parnas who was working with Rudy Giuliani, part of the trump inner circle when it comes to ukraine. And they are having a direct conversat
United states. Lev parnas was reportedly part of that conversation and said this earlier last month. He fired her at the dinner. I remember telling the president at that point, he turned around who was his aide at a time and sad, fire her. There was a silence in the room. Martha sounds very dramatic. President trump addressing these reports directly in an exclusive interview that will air tonight on the the ingraham angle. Here is a bit of it. Where you relying on lev parnas to be your ambassador . Hes somebody i guess based on pictures, he goes to fund raisers. But im not a fan of the ambassador. Martha will you telling parnas to get rid of her . I would probably tell rudy or somebody, i make no bones about it. I have every night writes. I have a right to hire and fire ambassadors. Martha democratic senator craig croons out of the hearing for a moment and says he would like lev parnas to testi testify. Hogan gidley says the president has every right to replace the people in his admini
Of the story if it were so, but theyre not showing up. Mmhmm. So what is he talking about . Fair point. However hes talking about people on their witness list. I get it. I was singing a different ax at him. You can have your own witness list. Heres what i dont like or i dont appreciate. This process is the same damn process that they put in place for clinton and modified thereafter. It was the exact same, don. The only witness they called was ken starr in the i wish i had a graphic. But the republicans wouldnt let them call anybody else. I wish i had a graphic. I should have thought about it. But if you look at the impeachment proceedings for clinton, the impeachment proceedings for nixon its the same. Actually these are more transparent. The republicans have more rights in this. Check this out. I do believe that is right. Ive seen it before written somewhere. I think they actually have more opportunities than the democrats did during other impeachment proceedings or republicans did, w