Breaking news: McConnell tells GOP senators he does not have the votes to block witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial
John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff from July 2017 through January 2019, suggested Monday that he’d take Bolton’s word over that of his former boss.
“Glad you tuned in, Mr. President,” Van Hollen said in a tweet of his own. “Now that I have your attention, how about coming down to the Senate to share your side of the story under penalty of perjury?”Schiff resists GOP calls for him to testify and for the House to issue subpoena for Bolton At this juncture, Schiff said, if Bolton is not called by the GOP-controlled Senate, “the inference is that the president is guilty, and his lawyers are basically screaming to the rafters, ‘Our client is guilty, our client is guilty. We just don’t want the public to see any more evidence of it.’ ”
When asked whether he has documents ready to subpoena Bolton to testify before the House, should Senate witness negotiations collapse later this week, Schiff declined to comment.Schiff also sharply dismissed the suggestion, made by Trump’s allies, that he could serve as a witness in the impeachment trial, particularly if Republicans push for a “one-for-one” trade with Democrats where each party called a single witness.
“He has the nerve, the gall, the belief that he can deceive … when it has been revealed that Hunter Biden does have the eyewitness testimony and is willing to testify,” Schumer said loudly.“What did I say?” Schumer said, turning to Sen. Jack Reed . Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz’s presentation Monday night may have perplexed Democrats, but it gave some Republicans the framework they were searching for to dismiss Bolton as a potential witness, even if his account of Trump’s actions is 100 percent true.
Braun said he would probably submit a question for the upcoming question-and-answer portion of the trial “just to verify and get another opinion on what Dershowitz talked about.” The comment suggests that Democrats will not be willing to sign on to a notion taking root among some Republicans to secure Bolton’s manuscript for review and move to end the trial. The aide was among several who addressed reporters Tuesday on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
“Really pathetic how @FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by loading the airwaves with Democrats like Chris Van Hollen, the no name Senator from Maryland,” Trump tweeted. “He has been on forever playing up the Impeachment Hoax.” “Let’s see what’s in the manuscript,” Graham told reporters. “Let’s see if it’s relevant, and if it is, then I’ll make a decision about Bolton.”Sen. Van Hollen advocates letting Roberts decide on witnesses
During the interview, Van Hollen also pushed back on the notion advanced by some Republicans that allowing witnesses could produce long delays in the trial, given that Trump is likely to exert executive privilege and that the issue will have to be litigated.“He can quickly adjudicate questions of executive privilege,” Van Hollen said.Rep. Andy Biggs , a staunch ally of Trump, argued Tuesday that testimony from Bolton would be largely irrelevant to a Senate trial.
“It doesn’t require a great prescience to know history is not going to be kind to this president,” Schiff said during an appearance on MSNBC in which he questioned why GOP lawmakers would want to “seamlessly tie themselves to this president.”“If the senators don’t call witnesses, this is not a fair trial,” Schiff said. “It’s not a trial at all.
She then quoted Trump from a speech in July in which he asserted Article II of the Constitution gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president.”Sen. Durbin says he’s not interested in ‘trading baseball cards’ Durbin said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who is presiding over Trump’s trial, should decide which witnesses are relevant.
During a CNN appearance, Demings was asked about an assertion Monday by Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz that “nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.” Tuesday night’s rally is being held in Wildwood, N.J. Trump has often used his campaign rallies to air grievances about his impeachment and the Democrats who pushed it.Trump campaign compares Bolton manuscript to Kavanaugh allegations
“It’s just possible that common sense and reality have a shot at prying open the doors to the Senate chamber after all,” said the editorial, which Pelosi’s office blasted to reporters over email. “After Republican senators claimed that it was perfectly reasonable to put a United States president on trial without hearing from any witnesses, a few of them are showing signs of recognizing that the truth matters. Or, at least, that the American people believe it does.
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