And her Groups Campaign to train women for Civic Engagement. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Do you solemnly swear, that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, people do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws . Justice john roberts, mr. Chief justice to the senators during the impeachment trial of President Trump. He is providing with presiding with the officer yesterday, a seat that he will be taking in the coming weeks. The coming weeks of the senate trial. We will we begin we will begin with your competence level proceeding in the upper chamber. Democrats, 2027488000. Epublicans, 2027488001 independents, dial in at 2027488002. You can also text that 2027488003. You can text at 2027488003. Or join us on social media at cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. We will begins presentation of the articles of impeachment led. Y adam schiff her
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