but this is what schumer said tonight. he stepped out to say this. >> we hear a lot of arguments from the president's council. none of them directly address why there shouldn't be witnesses and documents. they talk about how bad the house is. i don't agree with that at all. but they don't argue, they don't make a single argument why there shouldn't be witnesses and documents. that speaks volumes. >> laura: is that accurate? what was he listening to? i was listening to cipollone and other lawyers saying there is no underlying case here. they have a chance to do this and now they want the house to play clean up for them. >> that is exactly what the house managers are trying to do and that is exactly what the white house lawyers are taking them to task four. what surprises me a little bit is the fact that the house managers have been allowed to talk about evidence, there was not evidence in the house record. according to the house resolution, that is, this lev parnas nonsense. that should not be allowed to be discussed at thi

senator schumer: questions? reporter: how confident are you to have -- collins i think some democrats would argue it's false hope. how confident are you? senator schumer: the bottom line is the american people are strongly for witnesses and documents. 64% of republicans are and that's what i think is importuning many republicans to come forward and i'm not going to comment on any one individual. but i think there's a whole bunch who are really seriously entertaining this. reporter: mitch mcconnell, according to our reports, has spoken with his republican congress about the documents, the resolution, have you seen the resolution yet? are you on board with the proposed time sfline senator schumer: haven't seen the resolution, can't be on board with anything yet. reporter: i know you're concerned about the trade deal, do you think there's any way the president -- [inaudible] senator schumer: i think the chinese are sort of laughing behind his back that they did so well. there are fundamental ways china takes advant

this is what schumer said tonight. he stepped out to say this. >> we hear a lot of arguments from the president's council. none of them directly address why there shouldn't be witnesses and documents, they talk about how bad the houses. i don't agree with that at all but they don't make a single argument the why there shouldn't be witnesses and documents. that speaks volumes. >> is that accurate? what was he listening to? i was hearing sekulow and their% same as the underlying case, they had a chance to do this in the house and now they want the senate to play cleanup for them. >> that is exactly what the house managers are trying to do and exactly what the white house lawyers are taking them to task for his what surprises me is the fact that the house managers have been allowed to talk about evidence that was not in evidence in the house record according to the house resolution 660, that is this parnas nonsense, that should not be allowed to be discussed at this point because it was not included in the house record ye

are they letting schumer get away with this? you don't have to be a parliamentarian but you can't move this forward without unanimous consent, meaning chuck schumer is the gatekeeper. he wants to keep going until four in the morning. >> i don't know how much mcconnell can do about it. i do think people are going to get tired of it but if i can go back to a point again, who was mentioned by bob barr, i think it's very important. this official that worked for bolton tried to do the right thing. he got a subpoena from the house and the white house counsel told him you can't obey that and he went to a federal court and said to the court, tell me what to do. i want to obey the house subpoena, but the president of the united states has told me i can't do it. and the judge there, a great judge, set an expedited timetable to decide this, and the house withdrew the subpoena. why would they do that? as you pointed out, they never subpoenaed bolton. so to say, we need the evidence because the president wouldn't give it to us, you wouldn't

you heard from the democratic leader chuck schumer that he will offer a a number of amendments to the resolution and that could mean we will be in for a fairly long day on the senate floor. a tweet, mcconnell says he will move to table democratic amendments that try to alter his resolution. .. coverage will continue here on c-span2. [crowd chanting] ♪ >> we were not alone! >> we are not here today but every day! ♪ ♪ [crowd chanting] >> our cameras outside the east side of the u.s. senate waiting for the impeachment trial to get underway at 1:00 pm eastern. we will see chief justice john roberts escorted into the chamber. we mentioned the swearing in of senator inhofe and they are underway with debate on the resolution presented by the majority leader, mitch mcconnell. npr says i have gotten the question a few times a day, why is the senate starting the trial at 1:00 pm each day when the supreme court is still in session? the late start time is supposed to accommodate chief justice's john roberts's response abilities there. we will start live shortly on c-span2. [inaudible conver

schumer, proposes an amendment number 1290. on page two, between lines four and five, insert the following. if during the impeachment trial of donald john trump any party seeks to admit evidence that has not been submitted as part of the record of the house of representatives, and that was subject to a duly authorized subpoena, that party shall also provide the opposing party all the other documents, responsive to that subpoena, for the purposes of this paragraph. the term duly authorized subpoena includes any subpoena issued pursuant to the impeachment inquiry of the house of representatives. the senate shall take all necessary measures to ensure the proper handling of confidential and classified information in the record. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> mr. chief justice i want to now take a five-minute break. i'd like to ask everybody to stay close to the chamber. we'll go with a hard five minutes. i ask that we stand in recess subject to call to the chair. >> without objections, so ordered. >> okay, so they're goin

chuck schumer is a political animal. that's pretty much fact, right? he doesn't have a clue about the economy or how it works. if he did he would find a better way to represent taxpayers in his state. but he only understands politics and right now it's all politics. he wants mitch mcconnell's job. chuck schumer wants to be senate majority leader and he believes this is his big opportunity. and thus he carries on like this. >> we want witnesses and documents. the american people to each of their senators, democrat and republicans is asking now and will ask on into the future, where were you so afraid of witnesses and documents? trish: this is posturing. no one is afraid. i think a lot of people would love it. you get that leaker wrsh up there, schiff's staff, adam schiff himself should be called. joe biden, hunter biden. but the principle of all of this. senator schumer, you want to know why you have got no good witnesses? because your buddies smif * and nancy pelosi -- your buddies adam schiff and nancy pelosi never bothered their jobs. they are arguin

senator schumer will then send an amendment to the resolution to the desk. once that amendment has been offered and reported, we will have a brief recess. when we reconvene, senator schumer's amendment will be debatable by the parties for two hours, upon the use or yielding back of time, i intend to move to table senator schumer's amendment. and so, mr. chief justice, last senate resolution to the desk and asked that it be read. >> the clerk will read the resolution. >> senate resolution 483, to provide for related procedures concerning the articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. resolved that the house of representatives shall file its record with secretary of the senate which will consist of those publicly available materials that have been submitted to or produced by the house judiciary committee, including transcripts of public hearings or markups and any materials printed by the house of representatives, or the house judiciary committee, pursuant to house resolution 660. materials in this record will be admitte

senate minority leader chuck schumer and other democratic senators held a news conference after the end of the first day of the senate impeachment trial. topics included accusations against the president and a new gao report saying the president violated the law when he withheld aid from ukraine. >> okay, good afternoon to everyone. now, as everyone here knows -- get your footing or whatever it is. so, as everyone knows we have all been sworn in by the chief justice of the united states to serve as judges and jurors in the impeachment trial of president trump. when the chief justice walked in you could feel the weight of the moment and i saw members on both sides of the aisle visibly gulp. the weight of history sits on shoulders and produces a sometimes result you may never know what will happen. for some of us here this is the first time we've done this and for others, like myself, it is the second time but i assure you there ise no difference. even if i have gone through this before for all of us the solemnity, gravity of the moment in our history hits you square in the back when you

and you have "renin stimpy" with schumer and schiff. a shocker, ordinarily i agree with geraldo when it's time to bring the fire and i think there's a time for that. i don't think what devin nunes said was correct. the real this is a smoke screen.i thougha raging inferno today. i thought he did a great job. let me just say, sean, i've been watching coverage, glued to the tv all day in preparation for this appearance tonight. can we just nail down one simple talking point and put this thing to bed? everything was, located, we get it. does the audience realize that to this day, this is an alleged crime with a zero victims? quick, anyone in the audience, tell me who the victim is. oh, it's the ukrainians? why can they not get a ukrainian to say anything that happened? they have the ministers of foreign affairs on cnn, they said that lev parnas is a liar, and the ukrainian president is like, guys, i do not know what you're talking talking about. there is no victim expect >> member johnny cochran? if the glove doesn't fit, it does nodoes you

this schumer sham schiff show is over and i'm going to tell you why it's over. i listen closely to every detail of the presidents defense, including the actions of quid and pro and quo joe and zero experience hunter and how joe shut down the country of ukraine. everyone looked at what hunter and joe did and were doing and said don't do this. hunter has zero experience in ukraine. no experience in oil. no experience in gas. no experience in energy. hunter biden got a whopping $84,000 a month. did you know pam bondi told us the average american family of four makes less than $54,000 in a year. everyone knew. everyone knows now. everyone saw this at the time for what this was. and then you have joe biden. we just passed the two-year anniversary. joe biden on tape admitting to the shakedown. either way, at a minimum, everyone sees what this is. we can identify it. we have identified several potential serious violations of the law, felony. look at this on your screen. the foreign corrupt practices act. 15 usc 78, "it's illegal for a u.s. person to coerce," you are no

schumer said no. will america needs to know each and every one of these things that has been denied. >> one of the biggest moments was when chairman nadler was giving the long argument for why he believes there should be a speem for john bolton. that is clearly the case. the former national security adviser, mr. bolton, has agreed to testify if subpoenaed. so that argument was certainly worth and the senators i'm told were paying more attention to that. at least a couple of the republican senators who are interested, perhaps, in having them testify. the exhaustion factor, they'll get over it. if it is the government shutdown, the health care vote, senator john mccain gave his famous thumbs down about 2:00 in the morning. i think the sems of good will, how are these senators leaving the chamber this evening. and there is no doubt democrats are still trying to get some cooperation from republicans. so it is what they told manu raju more than 12 hours ago. that they are willing to have an open mind here.

on "inside amy schumer." >> have you ever had a one-night stand? >> yes, i have had a one-night stand. >> i had like a one-afternoon stand. and i couldn't find him. but you know, yankee stadium is so big. rrpts breaking through in the blockbuster film "trainwreck." >> just walk the way you walk down the street. you good? all right. thank you. >> looking pregnant! >> reporter: and recently getting laughs about new motherhood in her netflix special "growing." >> if you had a good pregnancy, and you enjoyed being pregnant, i just hope your car flips over. that's -- >> reporter: now, amy schumer is getting personal about her quest for child number 2, and her struggle with infertility. schumer had a son last may with husband chris fischer, but she recently posted a visceral image of her bruised stomach on instagram writing, "i'm a week into ivf and feeling really run down and emotional." responses to her candid post pouring in from those who've been in her shoes. one woman writing, "ivf is the e hardest thing." others saying "so proud of you for sharing

then the proposal by chuck schumer. and the high probability of a closed session where senators consider all of this offstage. that means they probably vote on the framework of the trial late sometime tonight. sandra? speech chad pergram covering it all on capitol hill for us. chad, thanks. >> ed: while all that is happening, president trump's and davos selling the american strength on the economy. john roberts is there and he joins us in our? >> bill, good afternoon. ed, sorry. old habits die hard. good afternoon to you. the president had that speech of the world economic forum today. to do the work of the nation while back and capitol hill, democrats are trying to cut him off at the knees, that he's trying to sell world leaders and global business leaders on investing in america. there's a bit of a campaign speech in there, as well. the president touting the results of economic policies he ran on in 2016 and implement it in his first term as president. economic policies that have resulted in economic growth and histor

. >> thank you leader schumer. i would argue that not only is this an impeachment trial, but is the very integrity of the united states senate on trial. what is before us, are charges that are arguably the most serious charges that have ever been leveled against the president of the united states. and why art where there has been an abandonment of responsibility to uphold the ideals, much less the words of the united states constitution by the president of the united states, that responsibility now rests on the shoulders of each member of the united states senate. which is to uphold the integrity of our system of democracy, uphold the integrity of our system of justice, and to uphold the integrity of the united states senate, which has a responsibility to do fair and impartial justice, which means demanding more from that the american public in each member of this body receive all evidence, documents and individuals who are witnesses so that we can engage in a fair deliberation. and make the decision that reflects

i wanted to give you a chance to respond to minority leader schumer. i don't know if you heard him there, but he says he believes there are 10 to 12 senators in your conference that could be open to voting for witnesses. >> no, he's not right at all. the momentum in our conference is clearly to moving to final judgment. the house made its case primarily yesterday and today it was a strong case, it was compelling, it was concise. they used less than half the amount of the time that the house did the last couple of days. so, i'm very comfortable with where we are. i think we have a very strong case. we need to get back to the work of the american people, and why we have the momentum moving to say we've heard enough. we can make an informed decision and judgment. let's vote. >> so, i don't know if you heard senator schumer, he was saying majority leader mcconnell's comments when he told other republicans he doesn't have the votes to block witnesses. schumer thinks partly that's true and partly that's mcconnell trying to motivate his caucus to get everybod

jerry nadler certainly focusing on documents as well as schumer. >> schumer said that's going to be their first motion. >> explain why the documents are so important. >> documents don't have that tttle nag it iting. you often here in court. the context is enough to show the whole story, but people are talking about having little bugs in their ear. it was 90 documents given by the president. you're talking about documents that let everybody understand what the president was doing. you heard manu raju say, don't worry about tonight. the media will give you the information tomorrow. and it need not happen while the american public had the ability to see prosperity are the in -- i call it an exercise in democracy because you have to have the documents, the transparency and an able-bodied bunch of senators who want the information. >> here's the issue. the senate has no more power to get those documents than the house does. and i think we're going to hear that sort of over and over again from the republican senators. the house had the opportunity to get these documents, the house had the oppor

listen, chuck schumer, newsflash, chuck schumer is going to come down and say there's a cover-up even if john bolton were to be called. we have seen this over and over again. we have seen this playbook and they rip off of right tackle every single time and they get tackled. it is important we understand that no acquittal that is bipartisan or just partisan is going to change the facts of the matter, and that is democrats would use this to their political advantage as much as they can't get we see that lev parnas being here today with an ankle bracelet. you know, that's been a long history of michael avenatti and michael cohen. i mean, come on. it is a circus. the american people know and they want to focus on things that matter. >> -- no witnesses be called, weakens democracy, face injustice, weakens the same as it is addition, they of questions that they are saying are going to be the result of you not call it what is a. >> they called 17 witnesses and again it 17 to zero but doug wants to -- >> seventeen witnesses. if you're talking about this is a disgrace him a going dentist would

mitch mcconnell has not consulted with senator schumer at all. i expect senator schumer got to see it at the same time we did good david: where there any efforts made together to try to all? bipartisanship at anna: no. we were looking for a meeting between schumer and mcconnell to try to reach an agreement on what the rules would look like as they did in the clinton case. they were both in the capital building at the same time and did not meet. now we have this partisan resolution put forth by mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell said he would cordon eight closely with the white house and work hand in glove with the white house. up to capitol hill and emily wilkinson. it was a sense what the atmosphere is like. what you expect between now and 1:00 eastern time when they gaveled in the senate? emily: this morning there has been an air of formality. we have seen senators begin to comment. we have already seen statements made by adam schiff, who is a house impeachment manager, as well as head of the intelligence committee, and chuck schumer, both saying

we just had senator chuck schumer on. he said they're trying to do it with as little evidence as possible, done in the cover of darkness. he said it's a national disgrace. do you agree with that? >> i think most people in america, when they hear the word trial, they expect fair trial. they expect evidence. they expect witnesses. and they expect the people who were hearing that evidence and listening to those witnesses to do the right thing. to make impartial justice. that doesn't look like what senator mcconnell is trying to achieve. but i think that's what the american people should expect. >> but help us understand this. why wouldn't everything that the house did, everything -- all of that evidence that we all watched on tv and they compiled methodically and republicans were certainly involved in asking questions and democrats were involved, why wouldn't that automatically be part of the official record? >> it should be. and certainly has been in prior cases. in the clinton impeachment, i was a member of the judiciary c

schumer said no, so now what? >> we're going to have a long night i think is the short way of looking at this. you heard senator mcconnell say this. we feel like the arguments at this point in time are getting somewhat repetitive. can we stack all of the votes together and essentially make this a quicker process, especially given the fact that we know that the opening arguments over the course of the next couple of days will be rather lengthy as well. what schumer responded was, look, i'm willing to push these votes and this remaining debate until tomorrow. but we are going to have the full debate before we have the votes. he made clear he has several more amendments left. chris, keep in mind that we have not had amendment votes yet on something like subpoenaing john bolton or subpoenaing the other two white house aides that democrats made clear they want to hear from. now they want to subpoena documents and information from the department of defense. the democrats have several more amendments to go. mcconnell was

senator chuck schumer is here tonight at a very crucial time. house speaker nancy pelosi now confirming that she's going to take one last occasion to consult with all the democrats in the house as to how they're going to proceed with the articles of impeachment against president trump and the impeachment process. that dramatic caucus meeting will convene in washington tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. after that last opportunity for discussion and consultation among all of the democratic members of the house, the house will then vote on a resolution that will name the impeachment managers who will act as prosecutors in the senate trial of president trump. that resolution will also formally convey the impeachment articles over to the united states senate. now we have sort of talked about here from the beginning, i've sort of tried to advise here from the beginning that we should all be very humble when it comes to predicting anything about how a presidential impeachment is going to do. there have been very few presidential impeachments. they

so chuck schumer will have to get in there and fight and fight for concessions. let's look at mitch mcconnell's resolution. this is how mitch mcconnell is suggesting we go about doing this. first of all, the house managers, people prosecuting the case, adam schiff and his team will have 24 hours split over two days to make their presentation, same time allotment for donald trump's attorneys. those are long days, 12 hours. when i did trials six, seven days -- six, seven hours your jury would start to get exhausted. 12 hours. >> has he explained why he wants such long days? i understand he wants this to get over with, but has he explained why he thinks they are up to 12 hours a day. >> i think number one he wants to get it done quickly and number two he may want to drag this out and make it a difficult thing for people to watch. then the senators will question the parties, but again we are not going to see cory booker or lindsey graham rising in their seats to ask questions. they have to write them out, pass them up to the chief justice who reads the questions to t

schumer, proposes amendment 1286. at the appropriate place and resolving clause insert the following, section notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution pursuant to rules 5 and 6 of the rules of procedure and practice in the senate sit ongoing impeachment trials, one, chief justice of the united states through the secretary of the senate shall issue subpoena to the acting director of office of management and budget commanding him to produce from january 1st, 2019 to present all documents, communications and other records within the possession, custody or control of the office of management and budget, referring or relating to, a, the actual or potential suspension withholding, delaying, freezing, releasing of united states foreign assistance, military assistance, or security assistance of any kind to ukraine, including but not limited to the ukraine security assistance initiative referred to in this section as usai, and foreign military financing referred to in this section as fmf, including but not limite

senator schumer proposed something very reasonable. four witnesses and then documents that are relevant to two basic issues. the question of the aid to ukraine and the importance of that aid and also the second issue, which is how these decisions were made. having the national security and the appropriations questions are critical. i think chuck schumer presented a case to mitch mcconnell. there's been no response yet. maybe tomorrow leader mcconnell will outline his response on the floor. to have a trial, which is fair, and if there's nothing to hide, as the president said over and over again in the memorandum of the conversation with the ukrainian president, why not put it on the table, let the senators, as triers of fact and jury, make a determination as a complete record? >> assuming all of you hold firmly and agree, you need four republicans to join you to get to 51, a simple majority. is that doable? >> i think it is. there are some republicans that have express ed concern about te process, about the denial of process. in keeping

the amendment by senator schumer to subpoena robert blair. that will not happen, i am guessing as they go to this vote probably another 53-47. molly, a republicans opening to criticism because they are not allowing any of these votes or witnesses? >> they want to hear the case from both sides and make a decision about whether they should hear more evidence or get more witnesses or whatnot, this is the same pattern that was followed for the clinton impeachment and they just want to follow that same thing. i think you have to go based on the merits of the case, decide whether you need more evidence. what is really important in this case is also think about the larger context, you have in the situation a group of people who have been trying to impeach the president for many years. it was obviously supposed to happen around the russian collusion hoax, when not complete we fell apart in dramatic fashion. >> shannon: let me stop you, let's listen into the senate majority leader. >> to the chamber, we will go with a hard 5 minutes. >> without object

chuck schumer is a political animal. that's pretty much fact, right? he doesn't have a clue about the economy or how it works. if he did he would find a better way to represent taxpayers in his state. but he only understands politics and right now it's all politics. he wants mitch mcconnell's job. chuck schumer wants to be senate majority leader and he believes this is his big opportunity. and thus he carries on like this. >> we want witnesses and documents. the american people to each of their senators, democrat and republicans is asking now and will ask on into the future, where were you so afraid of witnesses and documents? trish: this is posturing. no one is afraid. i think a lot of people would love it. you get that leaker wrsh up there, schiff's staff, adam schiff himself should be called. joe biden, hunter biden. but the principle of all of this. senator schumer, you want to know why you have got no good witnesses? because your buddies smif * and nancy pelosi -- your buddies adam schiff and nancy pelosi never bothered their jobs. they are arguin

chuck schumer. >> no witnesses, no documents. an impeachment trial is imperfory and one of the worst tragedies that america has overcome. and america is going to remember this day when the senate did not live up to the responsibilities, where the senate turned away from the truth and went along with the sham trial. this is -- if the president is acquitted with no witnesses, no documents, the acquittal will have no value, because americans will know that this trial was not a real trial. it had no witnesses, no documents, and it is a tragedy on a very large scale. i will now go up to my caucus to discuss what to do next and i will not talk about it here. >> and this is the senate democratic leader trying to do what nancy pelosi did a few days ago which is to assert that this trial, and we expect acquittal is not an exoneration of president trump, because new witnesses and new documents were not allowed. we should note that leader schumer there asserted that there were no witnesses and no documents, and that is not the case. there h

so i would agree with both senator schumer, senator arona, senator casey. the house managers adam schiff and his team have done an incredible job in terms of presenting a powerful case, a compelling case. as a former attorney general and former federal prosecutor i've seen many cases presented. they are really at the top of the game and doing an excellent, excellent job. and what is the contrast here? president trump as leader schumer has said, is over in davos, over and davos, number one what he's doing a davos, which i find outrageous, is he's playing with the jury, jury intimidation. he said as in davos at the cam he says don't call bolton as a witness. he said it could hurt our national security. i think that's a very, very dangerous role to go down, to say that congress cannot handle the national security issues. obviously, bolton has a lot to say in public just about what went on in the meetings, but we can handle the national security part in our secure facilities, and i think we are willing to do that. the other thing that i found was really upsetti

joining us now is the democratic leader of the united states senate, senator chuck schumer of new york. thank you so much for making time for us tonight. >> good evening, rachel. it is bold, but there is no question we're making good progress here, and we're a lot better off today than we were yesterday with the bolton revelation. you know, when you hear two people with diametrically opposed stories, and one is willing to swear under oath it's true, and the other who denies is not willing to swear under oath and is trying to shut the guy up who is willing to swear, who do you think is right? and i think our republican senators are sort of realizing that. so we're doing better and better. but this is the one place i'd be a little less bold than angus. don't underestimate the power that trump and mcconnell, the squeeze that they will place on these members not to do it. the last thing they want to do is extend it outward because every day there seems to be new revelations. in a certain sense, it's a little like watergate. things keep dripping out, drip, drip, drip. and the truth comes ou

majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, senators. i'm here as counsel to the president of the united states. our team is here to represent donald trump. we support this resolution. it is a fair way to proceed with this trial. it is modeled on the clinton resolution which had 100 senators supporting at the last time this body had an impeachment. it requires the house managers to stand up and make their opening statement and make their case. they have delayed bringing this impeachment to this house for 33 days, 33 days to this body and it is time to start with this trial. it is a fair process. they will have the opportunity to stand up and make their opening statement, they will get 24 hours to do that. and the president's attorneys will have a chance to respond. after that all of you will have 16 hours to ask whatever questions you have of either side. once that is finished and you have that information we will proceed to the question of witnesses in some of the more difficult questions that have come before this body. we are in favor

you guys deserve more pay to sit through the schumer schiff sham show. every time i say that successfully it's a miracle. congresswoman we will begin with you. >> watching this today is like reliving the nightmare in the house. i just can't believe the audacity of these democrats the way they lie and carry on, the hypocrisy is beyond belief. and so, you know, the president is doing a great job. and these democrats are going to lose the house. i mean, the american people have to see this for what it is. it's totally political hit job. that's all it is. it's disgusting, quite frankly. sickening. >> sean: let me go to congressman zeldin who by the way will you please talk congressman pete king into staying? what is he doing? but, you have been in the forefront of battling this -- what is the fallout both legally and the fallout for the country? >> the fallout for the country is a missed opportunity. they should be working with the president on lowering the cost of prescription drug prices. instead of doing that we see the senate hijack this schumer schiff s

but i think that chuck schumer will absolutely do that. that's exactly the way he thinks, because it's not going to be enough votes to get in impeachment, for heavens sake,ks and so it makes no difference to him how he cast his ballot, in the end him so he may well tell him just that, but doug jones has supported nancy pelosi's holding back the impeachment articles. he has supported the witnesses, only the witnesses that chuck schumer wants to see called, so i think he has made clear which side he's on. >> laura: yeah. [laughs] transparent. >> he will vote for schumer as the majority leader. >> laura: it's transparent. senator, great to see you. thanks so much for coming on tonight. the nonstop slobber fast, we talked about this with nancy pelosi, and might be seriously damaging the democrats in the long run. it's a deadly thing for democrats future. joining me now is dan bongino, former secret service agent and fox news contributor, author of the book "exonerated." how much damage has she done with the ceremonial nonsense? >> i used to sa

expecting to hear from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and also the minority leader democrat chuck schumer and within half an hour the senate will start debating the rules that will govern this impeachment trial the chamber is taking up a resolution which was proposed by the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell that is seeking basically a swift trial and the democrats including senate minority leader chuck schumer have criticized this proposal that it's part of an effort to cover up president. we're watching again live pictures from inside the senate chamber where preparations are underway for the 1st process in president trump's impeachment trial let's bring in heidi is will cost 0 in washington d.c. on capitol hill heidi tell us what the 1st order of business is going to be as this gets on the way in washington. charm on just minutes time the senate will gavel and be in session but we won't see any impeachment related proceedings until just after the top of the hour when the u.s. senate once again becomes its new persona of impeachment courts that's when you'll see the supreme court ch

schumer? mr. schumer no. mr. scott of florida? mr. scott of florida aye. mr. scott of south carolina aye. mrs. shaheen? mrs. shaheen no. mr. shelby? mr. shelby aye. miss sinema? miss sinema no. miss smith? miss smith no. miss stab now no. mr. sullivan? mr. sullivan aye. mr. tester? mr. tester no. mr. thune? mr. thune aye. mr. tillis? mr. tillis aye. mr. toomey? mr. toomey aye. mr. udall? mr. udall no. mr. van hollen? mr. van hollen no. mr. warner? mr. warner no. miss warren? miss warren no. mr. white house? mr. white house no. mr. wicker? mr. wicker aye. mr. widen? mr. wyden no. mr. young? mr. young aye. >>> we're watching what could probably be a foredoomed set of votes. we don't know yet, of course. three of the proposals are amendments by chuck schumer, the democratic leader. one is to subpoena an array of appropriate witnesses. mick mulvaney, john bolton, michael duffey, blair, both omb people. let's listen to the chair. >> the motion is agreed to. >> to -- >> that was a motion to deny that proposal. >> to subpoena john r. bolton. i ask that it be read. >>

joining me now is the senate minority leader chuck schumer. leader schumer, thank you very much for being with us this morning. >> good morning. >> you mentioned it last night, but your first reaction to these rules proposed by senator mcconnell which condensed the arguments over to two days each and could lead to an up or down vote as soon as next week. >> look, the rules that mcconnell proposed, propose a trial that is rushed with as little evidence as possible and done in the dark of night. 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. if the republican arguments were so strong, if president trump were so confident and mcconnell were so confidence of his arguments why do they have to do them at 2:00 in the morning? why can't they do them in the light of day. the rules he proposed are a national disgrace for this reason, impeachment is the only other power that congress -- that the constitution gives when you have an overreaching president and we know that this president has overreached more than any other president. the other of course are elections. but

i thought that senator schumer captured well, the extraordinary, and this moment. i was struck by the steep sense of solemnity. it was not in my stomach there was a not there. when the chief justice came into the chamber and then pronounced the name, donald john trump. the difference in the reference to president trump struck me as distinguishing this proceeding from any other. in fact, nothing we do while we serve in the united states senate will be more important and consequential than putting country above party. in this proceeding. the report released by the gao an independent, nonpartisan watchdog agency, squarely raises the importance of mick mullaney as a witness. he was the acting director of the omb that withheld the money. he took the president. john bolton, with the witnesses tried to dissuade the president from the so-called drug deal direct contact with the president of the united states, robert blair, and michael duffey not just the president's men, they were the president henchmen. they executed, the drug deal. each of these witnesses had eyes and ea

senator schumer's amendment does just that. the amendment authorizes the subpoena for white house documents that are relevant to this case. they focus on the president's scheme to strong arm ukraine to announce an investigation into his political opponent to interfere with the 2020 election. the documents will reveal the extent of the white house's coordination with the president's agents such as ambassador sondland and rudy guliani who pushed the president so-called drug deal on ukrainian officials. the documents will also show us how key players inside the white house such as the president's acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney and his deputy, robert blair, helped set up the deal by executing the freeze on all military aid and withhold ago promise visit to the white house. the documents include records of the people who may have objected to this scheme and such as ambassador bolton. this is an important impeachment case against the president. the most important documents are at the white house. the documents senator schumer's

that was a newly sworn in senator schumer in 1999. a few weeks later, during the trial itself, democratic senator tom harkin successfully objected to the use of the word jurors to describe senators because the analogy to a narrow legal proceeding was so inappropriate, according to senator harkin. so look, mr. president, i respect our friends across the aisle, but it appears that one symptom of trump derangement syndrome is also a bad case of amnesia. a bad case of amnesia. and no member of this body needs condescending lectures on fairness from house democrats who just rushed through the most unfair impeachment in modern history or lectures on impartiality from senators who happily prejudged the case with president clinton and simply changed their standards to suit the political whims. look, anyone who knows american history or understands the constitution knows that a senator's role in an impeachment trial is nothing, nothing like the job of jurors in the legal system. the very things that make the senate the right forum to settle im

robert: you have senator schumer trying to create pressure points about difficult autitnesses. publicly that he't have aid all the ball control i this situation that he normally does on the senate floor. and that is because some of the -- all of these questions are going to the procedural questions are going to be decided on a 51 a simple majority vote margin. lisa murkowski, lamarnder, mitt romney are very important. if they're not going to go along with a hunter bide bye den for instance, then that's not going happen if they're not going toh go along w for instance, a quick dismiss sal which a loft coervatives want to s right off the bat -- robert: what about schumer? >> schumer is trying to create pressure on republicans on susan collins on the other republicans who are up for re-election in 2020. he believes that this debate is they're going to be hard pressed to hear a votegainst hearing from new wes and people have been blocked from testifying. >>f lot o it is saving face. perhaps don't tnk hunter biden is a reasonablebuolution. he wants to see hunter buy done comb in. at

but to the pelosi, schiff, schumer, nadler -- these are just flukes. to put it a different way, the roots of a poisonous, illegitimate, presidential tree. how ironic that this odious impeachment odyssey is, itself, the epitome of an illegitimate undertaking. >> this entire proceeding hereey is not a fruit of the poisonous tree. it is the fruit of a proceeding that was fatally deficient in due process from the start to the beginning, and as a result of that, it produced a record that is totally unreliable, can't be relied on here for any conclusion other than acquitting the president. >> laura: if anything is illegitimate, it is whater adam schiff, nadler, the whole crew did in the house of representatives, courtesy of a whistle-blower no one canes question and in ig whose transcript no one can read. and one more point of irony here. after impeaching the president based on the ukraine actions that they claim were politically and personally motivated, two of the top house managers may be driving this agonizing episode in large part to bolster their own p