All rise. The court of impeachment of the texas senate is now in session. The honorable Lieutenant Governor and president of the senate, dan patrick, now presiding. May be seated. I am going to take your suggestion into consideration on exhibits, if time is spent from your side. Thank you very much. At this time, Opening Statement by the managers. Mr. Presiding officer. One housekeeping matter before that. Yes . The attorney general seeks a ruling from this court that to the extent privileges, attorneyclient privilege, executive privilege, etc. , may apply, those are held by the attorney general. Now, were not asking the court it rule in any particular statement or any particular document as privilege at this time but for purposes of the managers Opening Statement, Going Forward in this case, we ask that this court rule that those privileges, which all attach during the time at which the attorney genoas the elected serving duly attorney general attached to him, conversations he had wit
Members, please take your seats. Members, now that we are moving forward based on the pretrial motions, i would like to comment on the key rules and procedures for the trial so we are totally transparent for the public and everyone knows what is about to happen. First, the Texas Constitution and the law or require the senate to receive articles of impeachment preferred by the house of representatives and tried in the senate. To the general public, the articles of impeachment are the charges brought by the house. The senate is committed to conducting a fair and impartial trial for eligible senators who will serve as jurors. We will start each day at 9 00 a. M. And continue until at least 6 00, possibly a bit later. Of course, today we started on tuesday because of the holiday, but next week will be monday through friday and potentially to saturday of next week. We will not do saturday this week. We will break probably every 90 minutes or so for the jurors and the parties to stretch. We
Currently suspended without pay pending the trials outcome. The attorney general did not do anything wrong. The reading of the articles of impeachment and opening trial are expected later today. Live coverage on cspan resumes in about 10 minutes. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Funded by these Television Companies and more, including media,. Com. We believe if you live here, here, or way out in the middle of anywhere, you should have access to fast and reliable internet. Mediacom supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. The Senate Resumes, coming back from their august break. We will take a look at 3 00 this afternoon. Axios reporting it is after his second freeze on camera in as many months senator mcconnell will face a question swirling around, how old is too old to serve . At 81 mcconnell is the longestserving party leader in history. For the first time in his career, mr. Mcconnell may not
We will return live to the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney general ken paxton aftemorning of pretrial motions and we expect Opening Statements to get underway this afternoon. Live coverage here on cspan. Again, waiting for openingstf texas senator ken paxton. The texas senate is considering 20 articles of impeachment against the attorney general, which include bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction of justice. The charges stem from allegations brought to light in late 2020 by general paxtons own senior staff. They say he did political favors for a federally indicted Real Estate Developer and Campaign Donor in exchange for a Kitchen Remodel and a job for a woman with whom paxton was having an alleged affair. No criminal penalties are associated with impeachment and attorney general paxton will not automatically lose his state pension if convicted. Hes currently suspended without pay pending the trials outcome. Attorney general paxton denies doing anything wrong. Again, opening ar
Case. Plus, schools in pennsylvania now canceling classes today after new sightings late last night of the convicted murderer still on the run. And later, a mass exodus and eighthour wait as the gates finally open at burning man. A live report from what was a very muddy Nevada Desert coming up. Great to have you with us. And it is good to be back with you. 1 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin in washington where hours from now the former National Leader of the proud boys will be sentenced on charges related to the january 6th attack. This is Enrique Tarrio, he was found guilty of Seditious Conspiracy for trying to stop the certification of the 2020 election and trying to keep trump in power. Prosecutors are asking for a 33year sentence. So far, tarios codefendants have been given sentences far shorter than what the government wanted. Joining us from the courthouse in washington is nbcs justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. What will you be watch