Rep. Adam Schiff: 'It has the character of, 'You should have fought harder to overcome our obstruction. The House should have fought harder to overcome our stonewalling'...That's a really hard argument to make while they're stonewalling.'
National security adviser John Bolton adjusts his glasses before an interview at the White House in Washington, March 5, 2019.
Deputy Counsel to the President Patrick Philbin addresses the Senate during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Jan. 30, 2020, in Washington.The president's defense team continues to argue that additional witnesses aren't necessary because the president's behavior doesn't warrant an impeachable offense.
"I think it's very dangerous if the House runs up, which they did, articles of impeachment quickly, so quickly, that they are clamoring for evidence despite the fact that they put all of this evidence forward," Sekulow says. “We just talked about motive and intent. Well if you want further insight into the president's motives or intent further direct evidence of why he withheld the military aid in the White House meeting, you should call his acting chief of staff who had more access than anyone. There’s only one way to find out let's all just question Mister Mulvaney under oath,” Jeffries says.
"Even over the course of this trial, we have seen so many additional facts come to light. The facts will come out. In all of their horror, they will come out," Schiff says. "Rob this country of a fair trial and there can be no representation that the verdict has a clear meaning, how could it if the result is baked into the process? Assure the American people that whatever the result may be that they got a fair shake." he says.
"The question here before this body is what do you want your place in history to be? Do you want your place in history to be let's hear the truth or that we don't want to hear it," Crow asks senators. Pat Cipollone, an attorney for President Donald Trump, answers a question during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate in Washington, Jan. 30, 2020.-- From ABC News' Ben Siegel:
In this screengrab, Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) speaks during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate at the Capitol in Washington on January 31, 2020. Sen. Lisa Murkowski walks in the basement at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 30, 2020, while leaving at the end of a session in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in Washington.
“It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice. I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded this institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another.That word comes as The New York Times reports new excerpts from former national security adviser John Bolton's new book.
Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Kamala Harris, and Sen. Sherrod Brown listen while Sen. Charles E. Schumer holds a press conference during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, Jan. 31, 2020, in Washington.11:15 a.m. Schumer: 'The president's acquittal will be meaningless' "Every Republican who voted to hide the truth in an impeachment trial of the president" will have to answer for that, he says."The truth -- the truth -- will come out."
Deputy Counsel to the President Patrick Philbin answers a question during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate in Washington, Jan. 30, 2020.
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