house intelligence committee member congressman jim himes will join us. governor bill weld, who is running for the republican presidential nomination against donald trump is here to put his republican party on notice. it is now or never to do their constitutional duty. and if all of that news isn't bad enough for the white house, there are not one but two stunning stories out today from the new book "a very stable genius." which is also on sale on tuesday. including a new story about just how early nancy pelosi started standing up to president trump. and just how afraid some in the trump orbit were of her even before she became speaker. >>> but first, we've got breaking news tonight. the house judiciary committee has released new impeachment documents against president trump. the documents contain text messages from lev parnas, the indicted associate of rudy giuliani, about the alleged surveillance of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. the text messages include a series of exchanges between robert hyde, a republican congressional candid

and mika yang, house intelligence committee, she is an msnbc contributor. thank you to all three of you joining us. congressman, i want to start with you and the new evidence we have seen or the new disclosures that we've seen about the notes having to do with lev parnas and rudy giuliani and ukraine, including the news which we haven't even told our audience yet, that it appears that marie yovanovitch, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, was being surveilled. she was being tracked. her movements were being tracked. her cell phone was being tracked by americans. this is kind of incredible. what do you make of it in light of the fact that the impeachment articles are expected to go over to the senate tomorrow? >> i don't think -- i never thought i could be more surprised, but i guess the trump administration continues its path. this is deeply disturbing. who gave the orders to do this, to surveil a united states ambassador? and did it lead to the warning that she needs to move back, that they feared for her safety, operating in ukraine? safety from whom? who was

he's a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, good to see you. your sense of tonight's developments, the idea that there have been senators making unusual arguments. we've seen unusual arguments from the president's defense team in the last 24 hours, including that the things that the president did do are not illegal, not necessarily even appropriate, and that the president isn't subject to the things that govern his behavior. now, if that were true, there would have been no other impeachments in american history. richard nixon would have been found to have done nothing wrong, and the time that you all spent investigating this that led to the impeachment of the president was wasted time. >> that's right. i think that -- i think earlier in the week, i think they felt that -- this is me inferring from what we saw.

house intelligence committee member congressman jim heims will join us. governor bill weld, who is running for the republican presidential nomination against donald trump is here to put his republican party on notice. it is now or never to do their constitutional duty. and if all of that news isn't bad enough for the white house, there are not one but two stunning stories out today from the new book "a very stable genius." which is also on sale on tuesday. including a new story about just how early nancy pelosi started standing up to president trump. and just how afraid some in the trump orbit were of her even before she became speaker. >>> but first, we've got breaking news tonight. the house just dishry committee has released new impeachment documents against president trump. the documents contain text messages from lev parnas, the indicted associate of rudy giuliani, about the alleged surveillance of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. the text messages include a series of exchanges between robert hyde, a republican congressional cand

intelligence committee. he was a member of the gang of eight, which is that group of lawmakers typically briefed ahead of operations like this. congressman, thank you very much for joining me today. before i ask you some questions, i want to play some sound, some of the assurances we've been hearing from both secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump about this strike. >> the world is a much safer place today. and i can assure you americans in the region are much safer today after the demise of qasem soleimani. >> we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. >> chairman, i want to pick up on what jeremy diamond was just saying about the lack of details as to the threats that the u.s. was facing. are you convinced with what we know that there was an imminent attack? if not, what more do we need to learn? >> unfortunately, statesmanship is dead in washington, d.c. it's early days. here's what we know, the intelligence community offered a product to the president and

tonight the lead impeachment manager as well as the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, says that the intelligence community is now withholding documents that he believes could be relevant to the impeachment trial. with me now is cnn national security analyst james clapper, who of course was the former director of national intelligence. general clapper, thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thanks, jim, for having me. >> i want to play to you what adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee and house manager, said tonight about the intel community refusing a demand for documents and get your reaction. have a listen. >> the intelligence community is beginning to withhold documents from congress on the issue of ukraine. they appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration, the nsa in particular is withholding what are potentially relevant documents to our oversight responsibilities on ukraine, but also withholding documents potentially relevant that the senators might want to see during the trial. >> now, granted we don't know

the house intelligence committee released the testimony, we then saw it when it was broadcast live from the house floor, i mean, this is going to be the fourth or fifth iteration for most americans. i think from that -- >> you and i do, because it seem as old and stale to somebody who is just tuning in? >> read about it over the course of the last year, especially if we are not going to have witnesses there's nothing really knew to be learned here. >> they've understood from the outset of the process and became more and more understanding as they went along that that was not going result in some big surprise, the president was not going to be removed at the end of the day, really the only suspense is whether there's a bipartisan vote on or not and that's not something that they are eager to tune into because they know the result of the game already. gillian: a lot of republicans quickly on capitol hill are saying the president is right, this is behind closed doors, if we are not going to hear new witness testimony, we are not going to hear new evidence, we know the vote tally, save the

the house intelligence committee, that would be, of course, the economy that held the impeachment inquiry and interviewed the witnesses, that committee just released an incredibly incriminating cache of documents from rudy giuliani's indicted associate, lev parnas and told you yesterday the documents were transmitted over to the house and tonight just in the past couple hours really we got a small group of them and we've been going through them and digesting just how explosive and wild the stuff in there is. they include the following. handwritten notes from lev parnas on a ritz-carlton hotel note pad from vienna, the first of which reads, not making this up, "get zelensky to announce the biden case will be investigated." those are presumably directions he got from someone or his agenda was remarkably similar to the president's stated jae ed a. the documents include an absolute crazy, i mean just crazy text conversation between lev parnas and a new character, a guy who we did not know before tonight named robert hyde. we think he appears to be running for congress in connecticut's 5th dis

recording has been given to the intelligence committee in the house. if the senate will not accept that tape as evidence or can't because of the way the timeline works here, would you encourage the house to release that tape on its own to make it available to the public? >> absolutely. we believe everything should be made public. we believe we have right on our side. we believe the american people are on our side. when we started four weeks ago with witnesses and documents, no one knew what it was. now, however, our republican colleagues feel they know their constituents are strongly for witnesses and documents. incidentally, there's still 8 to 10 republicans who have not said they're against witnesses and documents. we hope to get them. i will say one more thing about that tape. what president trump did, and this is apart from impeachment, although she is part of the impeachment situation. what he did to ambassador yovanovitch is just despicable. this is a woman who dedicated her life to the country. she was not a political persian at all. she was the

on september 9th, the chairs of the house intelligence committee publicly announced the joint investigation of president trump and mr. giuliani's scheme. and this is when the music stops and everyone starts running to find a chair. word of the committee's investigation spread quickly through the white house to the nsc. morrison recalled seeing and discussing the letter withnsc staff. lieutenant colonelin members about the investigation. the same day there were efforts me for the president's hold on security assistance away from the white house. duffey sent an email to elaine mccusker that contradicted months of email exchanges, stating falsely that omb authorized dod to proceed with all process necessary to obligate funds. duffey was attempting to shift all the responsibility for the delay onto the pentagon. mccusker replied, and i quote, you can't be serious. i am speechless. now all of this, including omb's efforts to shift blame to the pentagon, the white house's effort to create a cover story for the hold on security cover-up. it started with the white house's lawyers' failure to stop t

reportedly this has been given to the intelligence committee in the house. if the senate will not accept that tape of evidence or can't because of the way the timeline works, would you encourage the houses to release that tape on its own? >> absolutely. we believe everything should be made public. we believe we have right on our side and we believe the american people are on our side. when we started four weeks ago with witnesses and documents, no one knew what it was. however our republican colleagues know their constituents are strongly for witnesses and documents and there's still eight to ten republican whose have not said they're against witnesses and documents. i'll say one more thing about that tape. what president trump did, and this is aparted from imp peachment, although she is part of the impeachment situation. what he did to ambassador yovanovitch is despicable. she was not a political person at all. she was the kind of person that makes america proud. she's in a civilian sense, like our soldiers. and for him to be so nasty and to be so cruel in

role in the house intelligence committee in terms of oversight, but also for the impeachment trial of the president. now, he singled out two in particular, the national security agency, which, as you know, kate, is in charge of intelligence code breaking cybersecurity, that type of thing. he said they are withholding, and he named the cia saying they are on track for doing the same. we have reached out to both the cia and nsa. they have not responded, but we do have a quick statement from the office of director of national intelligence responding to adam schiff's accusation. they say the intelligence community is committed to providing congress with the information and intelligence it needs to carry out its critical oversight role. the ic is working in good faith with the house intelligence committee to respond to requests on a broad range of topics and will continue to do so. kate? >> but still, the accusation sitting out there from adam schiff just as they're about to head over to the senate to begin the impeachment trial. thank you so much. i really appreciate it, alex. much more t

house intelligence committee member congressman jim himes will join us. governor bill weld, who is running for the republican presidential nomination against donald trump is here to put his republican party on notice.

nunes is the rafrging member of the house intelligence committee, supposed to be part of the whole extension of what's going on here, and now potentially he may be one that needs to be investigated himself. >> yes, fred, i think we need to learn a lot more about this. and i don't know what the process would be for the house to investigate one of its own members in a circumstance like this. but let's look at the pattern here. i was on the air with you on the morning of saturday, march 4, 2017, when the president tweeted about president obama wiretapping his phones. that bled into two, three weeks later reporting about congressman nunes going in secret to the white house to look at information in the skiff apparently to find information they thought -- they meaning republicans on the hill and the white house -- would be damaging to democrats, including in the obama administration and the clinton campaign. now you have another situation where at first congressman nunes was denying this. but it turns out he was having these sort of secret communications, either him directly or his staff -- >> th

so to a certain degree, the house and adam schiff and the house intelligence committee had to take up this task of an investigation because the justice department refused to do it. >> bret: but there's a lot we don't know about the early connections with the whistle-blower and the house intelligence committee. that is some of the heart of the republicans' questioning, saying maybe adam schiff should be one of the witnesses. >> chris: and that is blowing back and forth now too because the democrats are saying pat some should be a fact witnesses. the most interesting question to me today is going to be how long will we continue on this process of having amendments. we know we are going to get defeated, you are in for a lot because once an amendment goes to the floor, you get two hours. you get an hour -- and these are all amendments offered by the democrats. first, the house managers, the house democrats get to make their argument. then the white house lawyers get to make their argument. >> bret: there is not enough milk to go around. [laughter] >> chris: but this could go on for a long

he's the chair of the house intelligence committee. he's in charge of the house intelligence committee. it boggles my minds to think that he could be in that position. will that -- will these rinos stands up and be responsible or are they so consumed byru d cond byruby this the they won't. >> the questioning is continuing to go on. i listened to it all day as much as i could. i had committee hearings myself. but i had staff listening to it when i was in committee hearings actually doing work. lou: good for you congress woman. we are not seeing a lot of that in the senate. >> i was making a beef just yesterday that we have fentanyl drugs an thro d analog that's go expire next week. the democrats did put it up for a vote today sow it passed the senate just a few minutes ago because i think they couldn't even stand it themselves. lou: i would like to believe that. there is only one person i see right now working for the american workman and woman working for their families. his name is president trump. thanks so much for being with us. we

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you have devin nunes, ranking republican on the house intelligence committee. his top aide communicating with lev parnas, close associate of rudy giuliani now indicted. close associate who is described in interviews, include iing on s network saying there was, in effect, a scheme to trade military assistance for investigating the bidens. i'm going to throw up one of the text messages between nunes' aide and parin as. they're communicating here about let's do our call at 12:00. we can do the first prosecutor at 1:00 your time. they appear to be speaking to a former prosecutor in ukraine who offered his help in this. tell us why americans, people at home, or people watching this abroad should be concerned about this kind of communication between such senior american officials and members of congress and someone like lev parnas. >> well, it's important when we think about lev parnas to think of the whole spectrum of issues he presents. there are aspects of the story he tells that are challenging in terms of his own credibility. he uses some vague generallities. he

bipartisan senate intelligence committee found, what the democrats on the house intelligence committee found, with republicans on the house intelligence committees sometimes emit and sometimes not, nevermind all of that. they say why couldn't both countries have intervened? well, first, they didn't. there was only one systemic interference in our election, and that was by russia. second, what they are talking about here, what the president is talking about here is the server. well, unless we are to believe both russia and ukraine hacked the same server and were responsible for the same hacking and dumping campaign, then we are talking about one country interference and that is russia. and that the president continues, to this day, to his lawyer to say that they should trust the opinion of vladimir putin and russian intelligence propaganda over their own intelligence agencies about this whole crowd strike kooky crazy conspiracy theory ought to alarm every american. they also, and this is the overarching argument continued to maintain the president did nothing wrong. this may be the most

bipartisan senate intelligence committee found, what the democrats on the house intelligence committee found, with republicans on the house intelligence committees sometimes emit and sometimes not nevermind all of that. ,they say why couldn't both countries have intervened? well they didn't. , first,there was only one systemic interference in our election, and that was by russia. second, what they are talking about here, what the president is talking about here is the server. well unless we are to believe , both russia and ukraine hacked server and were responsible for the same hacking and dumping campaign, then we are talking about one country interference and that is russia. and that the president continues, to this day, to his lawyer to say that they should trust the opinion of vladimir putin and russian intelligence propaganda over their own intelligence agencies about this whole crowd strike kooky crazy conspiracy theory ought to alarm every american. they also, and this is the overarching argument continued to maintain the president did nothing wrong. this may be the most dangero

intelligence committee. and, of course, they've been successful. they have made several productions to the committee. now very much remains to be seen what the contents of those productions are. remember, they're covered by a court order, so there is certainly going to be something that has limited access and will be shared, likely to be shared less widely than other materials. but the fact that house intel now has this stuff is potentially significant because, of course, parnas had visibility to the work giuliani was doing that's arguably unparalleled. in fact, he was at the meeting in madrid that giuliani had with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. he confirmed to me on the record he recognized parnas on tv when he saw news of him getting indicted. so the possibility he has lots of material is fairly high. >> as parnas's people have been making more and more noise about wanting to cooperate is why they haven't brought parnas in for some kind of deposition or hear testimony in front of the house. >> ye

joining us now live is congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, really appreciate you making time to be with us tonight. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >> so let me get your top-line reaction to this new report from "the new york times" this evening that just as the impeachment investigation was starting up in november, russian hackers from the gru reportedly started targeting burisma, the ukrainian energy company whose board hunter biden served on. this is the company that president trump wanted investigations about that he thought he could use against biden and the campaign. what's your reaction to this new report? >> i have several reactions. first, that it would not at all surprise me. this is indeed exactly what bob mueller warned about in his testimony that the russians would be at this again. director ray has said the same thing, and they appear that this reporting is correct to be in the midst of another hacking and potentially another dumping operation designed to influence another election in donald trump's favor. it is clear

but the chairman of the house intelligence committee and the chairman of the house judiciary committee decided not to. they decided their inquiry was finished, and moved right ahead. house chose not to pursue the same witnesses they apparently would now like, would now like the senate to precommitment to pursuing ourselves. as i've been saying for weeks, nobody, nobody will dictate senate procedure two united states senators. majority of us are committed to upholding the unanimous bipartisan clinton precedent against outside influences with respect to the proper timing of these mid-trial questions. and so if any amendments are brought forward to force premature decisions on mid-trial questions, i will move to table such amendments and protect our bipartisan precedent. if a sanded and moves to amend the resolution and order subpoenas specific witnesses or documents, i will move to table such motions because the senate will decide those questions later in the trial, just like we did back in 1999. now, mr. president, today may present a curious situation. we may hear house managers themse

house intelligence committee member congressman jim himes will join us. governor bill weld, who is running for the republican presidential nomination against ld

this is quite different, though i think the facts that emerged from the house intelligence committee and judiciary committee are quite clear with respect to mr. trump's impeachable misconduct. nonetheless a critical defense being raised by mr. trump and his team and republicans who support him is the notion that mehow or another somehow or another there is an absence of direct evidence that he in fact gave commands that ukraine be extorted. of course the direct proof of that point would come from the people in the white house, nick mulvaney, john bolton who mr. trump has refused to permit to testify. the very people that the democratic senators would like to call. so what's different between now and then is then all the facts were really quite well known before the thing got to the senate. in this case, the republicans themselves, mr. trump himself, will argue there are factual gaps. therefore it seems at least a little peculiar that the republicans are likely to insist there are factual gaps and at the same time resist filling them with the ex-speed enzi of calling witnesses to do i

in a lot of ways the house intelligence committee, the house judiciary committee put out before the house voted on the articles of impeachment, but interestingly, it also demonstrated that house democrats may want to draw on new evidence, documents provided by lev parnas, an associate of the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. that's new evidence that republicans could resist bringing to the senate floor, but it's clear that's something house democrats are interested in, and of course, fred, this meeting is taking place against the backdrop of this bitter feud in the senate over whether to call witnesses in the senate trial. that's something you're going to hear lawmakers debate for the first time, really, on tuesday afternoon when the senate trial gets underway. >> and, margaret, another ongoing debate is the whole issue of allowing witnesses. democrats will be continuing to make the case, as many of them did, on the talk shows today, this sunday. and then there are some republicans who certainly seem to be intimating that they are open to the idea of witnesses. >> fred, that's r

house intelligence committee. he is on the house armed services committee. he's a freshman, a former army ranger, served in iraq and afghanistan. he came, got behind the impeachment inquiry in the aftermath of the revelations about ukraine and also val demings. she had long been suspected as an impeachment manager. when i asked her if she had been picked, she said i'm certainly going to find out. so it's not certain if she was told ahead of time but we'll see if nancy pelosi decides to pick these individuals or more individuals. the clinton impeachment trial had 13 people who prosecuted the case. there's been some expectation on capitol hill that it will probably be fewer than 13 individuals. we'll see how high it goes and how many individuals will come. they'll all be here flanked next to nancy pelosi in just a matter of minutes as she makes this decision that will set the stage for this impeachment trial over the next several weeks, guys. >> you look at the team she's putting together. you've got adam schiff, pr

intelligence committee and the charm of the house judiciary committee decided not to. they decided their inquiry was finished and mode right ahead shows not to pursue the same witnesses they apparently would now like would nala the senate to precommit to pursue an arson. as i've been saying for weeks nobody nobody will dictate senate procedure to not state senators a majority of us are committed to upholding the unanimous bipartisan clinton president against outside influences with respect to the proper timing of these mid trial questions and so if any amendments are brought forward to force premature decisions on meant trial questions will move to table such amendments and protect our bipartisan president it was sen moves to amend the resolution or to subpoena specific witnesses or documents will move to table such motions because the senate will decide those questions later in the trial just like we did back in 1999 now mr president today may present a curious situation we may hear house managers themselves agitate for such a menace we may hear a team of managers led

intelligence committee which held the 1st hearings. the trumpet allegedly threatened to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival job by the trial is expected to begin on thursday when u.s. house democrat schiff says that the senate has an obligation to the american people to conduct a just trial with witnesses. additional evidence continues to come to light that not only has bolstered an already overwhelming case but has also put in additional pressure i think on the senate to conduct a fair trial mr mcconnell has taken to saying that the senate should only consider the closed record that comes from the house and as if what the senate is is not a trial but an appeal from a trial but of course the senate the framers had in mind a real trial with witnesses and evidence and of mcconnell makes this the 1st trial in history without witnesses it will be exposed for what it is and that is an effort to cover up for the president the empathy is making a strong if possible case to protect and def

joining us now live is congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, really appreciate you making time to be with us tonight. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >> so let me get your top-line reaction to this new report from "the new york times" this evening that just as the impeachment investigation was starting up in november, russian hackers from the gru reportedly started targeting burisma, the ukrainian energy company whose board hunter biden served on. this is the company that president trump wanted investigations about that he thought he could use against biden in the campaign. what's your reaction to this new report? >> i have several reactions. first, that it would not at all surprise me. this is indeed exactly what bob mueller warned about in his testimony that the russians would be at this again. director wray has said the same thing, and they appear if this reporting is correct, in the midst of another hacking and potentially another dumping operation designed to influence another election in donald trump's favor. it is clear if tha

after that voice mail and other documents released by the house intelligence committee and after lev parnas's interview with rachel tonight, i don't think rudy giuliani's going to be getting that call anymore. neal katyal's new piece in "the washington post" is lev parnas and rudy giuliani have demolished trump's claims of innocence. and joining us now is neal katyal. he's a former acting u.s. solicitor general and he's now an msnbc legal contributor. the title of his new piece is as i said, "lev parnas and rudy giuliani have demolished trump's claims of innocence." your reaction -- i just want to give you a wide open field here, neil, and your reaction to what you heard in the last hour and rachel's interview? >> well, what an extraordinary hour of television, and rachel really deserves a lot of commendation for bringing that out as does the house intelligence committee for getting those documents yesterday because i think taken together, all of it is really damning for president trump. and it's not just the existence of the documents or what he -- what he said mr. parnas said tonig

joining me is congressman will hurd, a former cia officer a member of the house intelligence committee now. thanks for being with us. overall, obviously soleimani was a killer, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not more, americans, american forces and probably hundreds of thousands of people in syria and iraq and elsewhere. was it strategically wise to do this? >> yes, i think this was a good move. this is what happens to heads of terrorist organizations. you said what the iranian government has been doing and talked about what qassim soleimani has done in the past. when you have an opportunity like this, you take it and let's be frank, the iranian government is not the victim here. they are the culprits. they are the ones -- whether at war or not, we've been at war with iran for 50 year, and this is an example of if the iranian government wants to truly have a de-escalation then guess what, stop killing americans. stop killing our allies. stop trying to influence the elections in iraq, in lebanon, in afghanistan, in yemen. stop killing your own people who are trying to pea

they are going to be able to talk about everything that they did in the house intelligence committee, the house judiciary committee. there may come a time where they do not admit into evidence everything that they did, and there's an issue of some of it is considered hearsay because it was about what lieutenant colonel vindman heard someone say about what somebody else said and so there's been this fight within republicans about what should be considered evidence or not. >> host: can john roberts tell l a center you can't consider this when coming up with your verdict in thist impeachment trial? >> guest: ultimately it's whatever 51 senators decide is evidence. john roberts and a lot of these sort of contentious issues could be punted up to chief justice, the trial judge in this case. but any of these rulings can be challenged by the full senate, and at that point is 51 senators overrule him, they have the - final say. and more likely than not i think we expect the chief justice on contentious issues especially to sort of let the senate decide and let them have the will. no one expect

because he should be joining the house intelligence committee with the demand that they produce material. 57 national security act as amended said congress can receive and look at essentially any intelligence holdings of the community and the director is duty bound to present this information to congress. the only time i've seen it get slowed or delayed is whether the white house got involved. and we're concerned the white house is basically saying to the nonpartisan, political intelligence community, do our bidding. and that is a huge redline for the inc. >> for the nonnational security bust among us, what kind of stuff does the nsa have and of the stuff that they have, what is the congress have a right to see? >> so, we're talking about potentially some of the most sensitive material our intelligence community develops, the most sensitive sources and methods. the nsa is in the business of signal intercept. the imagination runs wild here. is there perhaps intercepted communications between ukrainian officials and the white house that we don't know about? are there communications that wo

on that same day, september 10th, chairman schiff of the house intelligence committee wrote a letter to the acting director demanding that he provide the complaint as the law required. the next day on september 11th, president trump lifted the hold on the security assistance to ukraine. now, numerous witnesses have testified that they weren't aware of any reason why the hold was lifted. just as there was no explanation for the hold being implemented. there was no additional review, no additional european contribution, nothing to justify the president's change in position, except he got caught. just as there was no official explanation for why the hold on ukrainian assistance was implemented, numerous witnesses testified that they were not provided with any reason for why the hold was lifted on september 11th. for example, jennifer williams, who was the special adviser to vice president pence, testified that she was never given a reason for that decision. neither was lieutenant colonel vindman. here's what he told us during the hearing. >> are you also aware, however, that the securit

so far, the evidence developed and presented in front of the house intelligence committee, the house judiciary committee that led them to take up and vote to articles of impeachment, seems very compelling. largely because the president has declined to offer defense. he will have his chance and briefs over the next few days in the conduct of the trial. sautÉ to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, please spend the weekend reflecting on the importance, the senate itself is on trial. and see whether you can be open to the idea that we should have a trial, not a cover-up, that features documents, evidence, witnesses, rather than a historic sham that fails to meet the moment. thank you. >> i thought that senator schumer captured well the extraordinary drama of this moment. i was struck by the deep steep sense of solemnity, and there was a knots in my stomach when the chief justice came into the chamber and then pronounce the name donald jon tromp. the difference in the reference to president trump, struck me as really distinguishing this proceeding from any other. and in fact, n

so far the evidence developed and presented in front of theed house intelligence committee and house judiciary committee and that led them to take up and vote two articles of impeachment seems very compelling trade largely because the president has declined to present a defense and it will have his chance in briefs over the next few days and in the conduct of this trial. i would say to my colleague on the other side please, spend the weekend reflecting on the importance of this moment and on the ways in which, i would agree, the senate itself is on trial and see whether you can be open to the idea that we should have a trial, not a cover-up, the features documents, eviden evidence, witnesses rather than an historic sham that fails to meet the moment. thank you. >> i thought that senator schumer captured well the extraordinary drama of this moment and i i was struck by the deep, steep sense of solemnity and there was a knot in my stomach when the chief justice came in to the chamber and then pronounced the name, donald john trump. the difference in the reference to president trump str

house intelligence committee chairman schiff hadn't heard anything, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, hadn't heard anything. that's starting to change. the cia director spoke to mark warner earlier. the outreach is starting to continue. one way to view things now, too simplistic to say it's breaking down partisan line. there's agreement who soleimani was and what he represented in terms of the deaths he played a large role in related to u.s. troops in iraq and in the middle east over the course of the last decade or so. the questions, this isn't specific to democrats now. i've talked to republican wondering the same thing, it's, what's next? what is the strategy as this plays 0 ut? no question, a response. how people here feel, but what is the preparation for said response and what is the next step the u.s. decides to take -- >> hang on, phil. forgive me. we want to go to your colleague, my colleague there on capitol hill manu raju with chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff. listen in. >> -- a series of retaliatory steps beginning wit decision to leave the jcpoa to embark on

the house select committee on intelligence congresswoman maxine waters the chairs financial services committee congresswoman carolyn maloney madam chair of the oversight committee men mr chairman elliot angle of the foreign affairs committee and rich in new york chairman of the ways and means committee chairman of ways and means committee thank them for all of their difficult work and we honor our darling ally should cummings who said when one day we were dancing with the angels. what would we say about what we did. at this difficult time in our country's history. and then i'm very proud that mr natter and mr. mr shift are part of our managers but i want to acknowledge other managers who are that's a freshman member but a students a freshman this. was they've been here one year. there's great things is congressman jason crow of colorado. a week congresswoman out deming's a fluke the state of florida congresswoman. garcia of texas that was what we all here were talking how came isn't it. distinguished chair of our caucus how team jeffries of new york and everybody. until lofgren this

i'll speak live with the house intelligence committee, chairman adam schiff, in his first interview since he was tapped to be the lead impeachment manager. let gee let's go to phil matingly. just saw the articles of impeachment dlelivered to the senate for only the third time in u.s. history. the house managers and the house of representatives still have those articles of impeecachment. they will bring them back tomorrow at noon. >> reporter: that's right. this is the senate's ball game now. what you saw last hour was ceremonial but it was necessary and something people have been watsi ing waiting for. the house managers, all seven of them, walking the two articles of impeachment against president trump across the capital, through the rotunda over to the senate side and bringing a message over to the senate that the house is ready to send the impeachment articles to the united states senate. the senate responding that it is ready to receive the articles and it will receive them at noon tomorrow. that is when the house impeachment managers will return to the senate and where they will read

on that same day, september 10th, chairman schiff of the house intelligence committee wrote a letter to the acting director deplanneding he provide the complaint as the law required. the next day on september 11th, president trump lifted the hold on the security assistance to ukraine. now, numerous witnesses have testified that they weren't aware of any reason why the hold was lifted, just as why there was no explanation for the hold being implemented. there was no additional review, no additional european contribution, nothing to justify the president's change in position except he got caught. just as there was no official explanation for why the hold on ukrainian assistance was implemented, numerous witnesses testified that they were not provided with any reason for why the hold was lifted on september 11th. for example, jennifer williams, who was the special adviser to vice president pence testified that she was never given a reason for that decision. neither was lieutenant colonel vindman. here is what he told us during the hearing. >> are you also aware, however, that the securi

here is house intelligence committee chairman schiff. >> thank god putin said thank god, no body is accusing us any more of interfering with u.s. elections. you got to give donald trump credit for this, he made a religious plan out of putin. but yok i don't think we want pn is be thanking god for president of united states because they don't wish us well. reporter: democrat say that impeachment trial is not about the bidens, but over past two hours house intelligence committee chairman schiff has spoken about bidens, burriss mark and republican -- burisma, and senator holly. saying democrats cannot have it both way about the bidens. >> house manager went a detailed discussion about burisma and biden. it would prove to be a major area, a number of those statements are tenuous and it shows how central the bidens are on their argument. reporter: that could be an issue with calling witnesses here. you know other thing i noticed in the senate chamber today is that senators seem to be listening more, they are more focused and more dialed in. the first day of the trial, you know it bled from tuesda