republican house members requested to hear from hunter biden. adam schiff vetoed every witness we requested unless they were on the democratic witness list. we formally requested hunter biden because i think the facts are important to this case. we are a republican-controlled senate, adam schiff cannot pick and choose who he wants because this is a fair trial. i support the senators as they make this decision. >> for 24 hours. >> i think it is up to them. whether they use 24 hours or not, i don't anticipate that they will. they won't need 24 hours to debunk the three days my democrat colleagues have. i would be very surprised if 24 hours, because the facts are on our side. >> they are pretty quick, no investigation of biden, that is my case.

>> anything else? thank you. >> comments from the president's defense team, house members were part of his defense team. delivery of 28,000 pages of evidence from the house and impeachment, in arguments last night and today the president's team will begin their defense, begin their arguments, to two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. for the third time in history a president on trial in the u.s. senate set to gavel in at 10:00 eastern, live coverage beginning on c-span2. welcome you this morning,

capitol hill producer pointing out the last time the senate sat in a saturday session was last year a month ago. he says you may have seen if you are watching last night as adam schiff wrapped up his argument he alluded to a cbs news report alleging that republican senators could face fallout for opposing the president on impeachment. many senate republicans including danes, bluesman and ernst shook their heads in disapproval over schiff's comments about heads on pike, not loud enough the galleries above to here. let's take a listen to what adam schiff said last night in his closing comments. >> cbs news reported a trump confidant said that gop senators were warned to vote against your president, vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.

i don't know if that is true. vote against the president and your head will be on a pike. i have to say when i read that, i don't know if that is true but i was struck by the irony, by the irony. and and how much -- head on a pike. >> part of adam schiff's closing comments last night at 9:00 eastern, the house managers draft their arguments in five minutes or so, the senate back in session with the

president's team getting equal time. under the rules they get 24 hours over three days. we expect this to be a fairly short session. following comments from adam schiff last night here is the take from nbc tweeting this, senator collins says she was offended by schiff's reference to the republican senators's threat, heads on pikes but let me make clear it is not going to have an influence one way or another. is saying it is not going to have an influence one way or another on my decision-making. that is senator susan collins was among the president's team, defending against articles of impeachment, we heard a lot from him off the floor of the senate, j sekulow, his personal attorney, his arguments may shape up. >> i won't tell you -- obviously with 3 hours it will be an overview. >> what are you going to use 24

hours? >> i will not make the determination on that until the case progresses. i did an oral argument in a supreme court case that was eight minutes. sometimes - i will say this. if we need to take it full-time, as that is progress, remember after this is over there are two days, 16 hours of questions. thanks. >> that is j sekulow, one of eight memos of the president's legal defense team, the president's personal attorney, founder of christian advocate serving evangelist and radio talkshow host. in five minutes members arrive, mister sekulow and mister cipollone have arrived and we

see mister inhofe coming into the chamber. as you have seen over the past couple days, cameras across the capital for comments from members during break. the managers -- we mentioned 9:00 eastern. craig kaplan took a look at the data, how much time was used, house impeachment managers over three days, by the numbers on c-span. adam schiff used 505 minutes. hakim jeffries, 180 minutes with representative garcia, 187 minutes, representative crow, 134, the chairman of the judiciary committee jerry nadler 102 and val dennings with 97 minutes, using most of the time allotted to them by the rules.

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[inaudible conversations >> one of the president's spokespersons about to enter the chamber, enter the gallery more than likely. the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, 20 minutes ago tweeting our case against lying, cheating, little adam shifty schiff, crying chuck schumer, nervous nancy pelosi and their leader, dumb as a rock aoc and the entire radical left do nothing democrat party starts today at 10 am on fox news or fake news cnn or fake news msd from the president. cameras are up, audio as well, the