>> thank you counsel. the majority leader is recognized. >> i ask unanimous consent the trial adjourned until 1:00 o'clock p.m. friday januar. >> without objection the trial is adjourned. >> that concludes the senator 16 hours of asking questions they will be back tomorrow at 1:00 o'clock p.m. in the meantime we want to get your reaction to what you have heard. 175 questions were asked of the house impeachment managers in the trump defense team.

one of the people you heard a lot from tonight was patrick filled in on the trump defense team. the new york times reports he began his career and the george w. bush administration and worked with the president on establishing military tribunals at guantánamo bay and that is one of the things that came to light about patrick filled then. the senate has come back into session. >> mr. president ask unanimous consent the general be approved today and the senate is in morning business permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. >> without objection so ordered.

>> asking . at the senate proceed to immediate h conrad is 86 received from the house. >> the clerk will report to the house concurrent resolution 86 provides for a joint session of congress to receive a message from the president. >> is there any objection to the proceeding? none heard, proceed. >> i asked the maid one - - agreed to with no intervening action or debate. >> without objection so ordered i ask that the senate stand adjourned under the previous order. >> the senate is adjourned. >> as you can see they have to do a little bit of regular senate business. the state of the union is next tuesday they had to get the resolution on the table so they could invite the

president to give the state of the union next tuesday of course he spent his live with that. back to the impeachment trial. senators have wrapped up their 16 hours what did you learn? larry in arkansas what is the name of your town? >> actually i am in alaska. how would you vote quick. >> personally i would vote to acquit we are setting a very dangerous precedent we have those presidential impeachments now we have had to an almost 20 years and it just seems like there is a lot of sour grapes in the election

my own government is has a recall nothing illegal but doing his job and that's what gets people mad if you look at the 2016 election that the us people elected the president and the majority people voted for clinton but thankfully the electoral college did its job right but i would just like to express i vote for acquittal i think we are getting into that situation. >> have you community on - - communicated that to your senator. >> s senator murkowski. >> she sent a question up to the desk that read why should this body not call ambassador bolton as a witness. >> i saw that question it is a

good question but i have to go with the presidents council that states where does it stop it was professor dershowitz opinion it doesn't matter if he testifies it's not the impeachable offense and that's what i'm trying to get out. what is the high crime and misdemeanor it is so subjective so now 20 years before election now the congress doesn't like the person they will find whatever they can to get rid of them. >> larry from alaska we appreciate you calling in. senator alexander from tennessee is due to give his views on whether or not he will vote for more witnesses and we will be watching for that as well. oakland illinois what did you learn and how did you vote i

am tired of being a deplorable. i have to ask a question if i've contacted my senators. we live in illinois and as a veteran which we all support our veterans and our police they just run rip shot they are persuading people run the election basically but i have already told them i am ashamed of them but i have called probably 25 senators from everywhere the last couple of days. >> are the phone lines busy what type of a response did you get. >> i never get a life phone call but i don't care because this is just like in high school with the bullies and the jocks and they say do my

homework and i will be a friend tomorrow. know they are not they will not be a friend. this is supposed to be bipartisan. the house did not follow standard procedure they did not get real actual subpoenas governed by law. >> thank you from illinois now wisconsin through text if bolton is called as a witness and fails to provide testimony sufficient to stop the acquittal to the house managers stop or can they go down another rabbit trail i put my money on another rabbit trail. andrew from seattle what did you hear today and how would you vote quick. >> i'm just a kid i'm not a senator or attorney but i think from the lowest core in the land to the highest court

in the land when it comes to justice i think the most important thing to do is to gather all the information that you can to affirm the american public's trust then there should be no downside to hearing as much as we can i would vote in favor of witnesse witnesses. >> you say you're just a kid. howled. >> 17, sir. >> is a something you are studying in high school with civics? >> no sir just public interest. >> how much have you been watching? >> almost all of it. >> does the time change help between seattle and washington? >> a lot of it goes on during school and i cannot watch during class but once i get home i can catch up. >> we re- air the whole thing overnight. thank you for calling. political points out senator

alexander exited the capital is that a statement is coming within the hour announcing his decision on witnesses. illinois please go ahead. >>caller: i just wanted to call and make a comment on senator romney one of the last questions of the day when he asked manager schiff if there was any evidence of quid pro quo any actual evidence and then he shifted around the question and went into something else. he did not say yes or no like he has not done since this began. in the presidents council came up, they flat out said no. there is no physical evidence of the president having any

wrongdoing. so once again tonight this could have been over with last night. but the question that was asked had the same answers over and over and over again because they don't have anything else to go on except the same answers over and over and over. once again there is no proof. they have got their witnesses before they don't need to bring them now and then to drag this thing on and on and i'm afraid if the president is acquitte acquitted, they will find other things to try to impeach him for prior to the upcoming election. >> thank you robert from illinois. 180 questions over the last 16 hours in the senate. good evening. >>caller: high.

- - hello i have to agree with the last gentleman and that the managers really didn't answer that question that romney asked adequately about factual evidence. i am in agreement with that. may have said they will continue just as adam schiff read the transcript but he made it up. i have lost one - - watched in the last three hours he is doing the exact same things to the republicans. right there in the senate. if this is so fair i would like for this moment.

>> a new statement from lisa murkowski, i am going to reflect on what i have heard and reread my notes and decide whether i need to hear more. waterloo iowa good evening. >>caller: good evening. how are you? the thing that has struck me. >> turn down your tv do not look at your tv. we are all listening. >>caller: what struck me is that they say this is a trial. it is different than a trial. but everybody has made up their decision. i am an independent and i like to get both sides of the story and i haven't made up my mind until tonight. and it was a lot of the things

that house managers had to say. they are great at debate perk i think adam schiff could sell a catch-up popsicle to a lady in white gloves. but the facts came from the presidents people. they are lawyers. they were right there. they answered yes, they answered no. boom boom boom. they gave the facts straight out. and i think that is what change my mind and whether they get another witness or not, i think it will be an acquittal. and i will walk away and i will vote for trump. >> so come monday the democrats are caucusing in iowa but are the republicans? >> i know there are a couple

small ones here in waterloo and i know they have the big rally down in des moines tonight i wish i could've went. i will watch that again because i'm hoping it will be on again. there is just what was the crime. where is the crime. and that is what i hear from 85 or 90 percent of people around here. >> now henderson nevada. how would you vote after what you have heard? >>caller: how would i vote? i would vote not to indict. nothing has been proven and present trump is guiltless and

what the public needs to do is get a copy of the constitution, they need to read it and study it and more he has the rights to hire and fire ambassadors. and the power of executive positions. if the senate votes to bring in witnesses which is never ever happened in the senate chamber before, during and impeachment. >> thank you. now from nevada. >> i will vote in support of the motion to allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed the full statement is online on her senate website.

>> >>caller: i'm doing great. i am sitting around trying to figure out we're all talking about witnesses and talking about the executive powers and everything like that and everybody tries to say we have to let somebody invade. the husband and wife relationship, that is one of the things that is sacred to everything. for going to talk about

something that has to be talked about then let's talk about that because when you go into court set is one of the most sacred things we have ever had in the court of the united states. >> of a vote on hearing witnesses ends in a tie it could fall to the chief justice despite what happens next on any tie the motion fails so one outcome in that scenario is the chief justice roberts does nothing and at the end of the matter however from the first presidential impeachment trial the successful effort to remove johnson in 1868 also seem to give chief justice roberts the option of breaking the tie. that's in the new york times. oregon what did you hear over the last couple days and how would you vote? >>caller: hello. first i would say i am an independent. i did not vote for trump but i

have been watching this since it all started way back with adam schiff in the house. i dvr so i can watch it after work. it is a bunch of nonsense. they are giving us nothing except a bunch of democratic rhetoric and they keep getting off track with the scenarios that are outlandish. they keep saying that 75 percent of the public will i'm part of the public and nobody has ever asked me. and i live in a state that is absolutely democratic i can call my congressman and senators. they don't listen to us and people need to listen to us. we voted for him we need to acquit him and move on to the elections and a 75 percent of the people don't want them there they won't put it back there in november. >> laura from oregon.

the president was in des moines tonight and live on c-span and here is a little portion of the rally where he talks about impeachment. >> you know we are having probably the best year we have ever had in the history of our country. and i just got impeached. [laughter] can you believe it? . . . . they impeached trump the best trade deals the strongest military we have accountability. i should be worried.

remember nixon was like a dark period when you think about it. it was not good. it was a long time ago. they say it was a very dark period. this is a happy period for us. [applause] [cheering] [cheering] [chanting "usa"] is a happy period because we call this impeachment life. crazy schiff, shifty schiff is a sick puppy, the you know what, today i had my highest poll numbers since i got elected

because the american people and people all over the world know it is a hoax. they understand and know it is a hoax and we had a great part in the republican party. they know what's going on. buthat the democrats are tryingo overturn the next election and we will make sure that they face another crushing defeat in 2020. november 3, november 3. mark it off. november 3. >> host: and that was the president earlier from tonight in des moines. jeff and rocks though, maryland and the suburbs texts this question. i have a question for the the president's counsel. why don't they address the charges of wrongdoing instead of distracting with something else? joanne in bay shore, new york.

>> caller: thank you for taking my call. i would definitely vote to acquit him. they have been railroading this president since day one. people have to remember that, that they all swore they would impeach him on the first day he took the oath of office. this is nothing new. he has been railroaded by the democrats. they can't get over it. trump is going to win in 2020 by a landslide. >> host: are you an activist republican? >> caller: i wasn't until trump. i would vote for the person. i never really picked a party, not independent, conservative, moderate, i just voted the person if i like who it was. i knew the minute trump came down the escalator steps from new york. i've watched this man my whole life.

i'm 64-years-old. this man has been at every one of these democrats homes. she's been invited to their children's wedding. they came to him when they wanted money. he was good for them at that time. the moment he said he was running for president and said he was going to clean up the corruption in washington -- which everyone knows the corruption runs extremely deep in washington. i'm not saying i'm one side. inside. it's on both sides. too many lobbyists. it's got to stop. trump is doing it. my question is is that if they bring in john bolton, his manuscript has been released. why sell the book lacks is too coincidental for me this manuscript just happens to get released. >> host: what you think of susan coffins announcing she

will vote for more witnesses and testimony. >> caller: is there any doubt in anyone's mind she was going to vote that way? i think everybody knew that. >> host: that is joanne in new york. up next is nevada. val, you are on the air. >> caller: thank you for having neon. i just wanted to say i'm voting for the acquittal. it was like watching a middle school play the nfl. they've got to stop on the democrat side. they are representing the united states. they need to start acting like trump and standing up tall and say america's great. >> host: laurie in philadelphia text in my question is for th the president's couns. you argue that impeachment now is too close to an election. define to close in who should

make the assessment? is there ever a time that two close and when would that be? up next is back in cascade, colorado. >> caller: thank you for the call. first i hav had a comment and a question that i would like to see asked in the trial. many people may not take money question or sincerity to loyalty because i am 34-years-old. i'm blue-collar. i'm a conservative, and i work in the oil industry to power this country. and yes, i moved for an acquittal because the democrats are full of crap coming into their tirades on this hearing is ongoing. second of all, my question for

the house managers. why would you want to hear bolton's testimony anyway, knowing that he has publicly said that he would lie if it was in the best interest of the national security. he would lie to the american people if it was in the best interest of national security. why does that not mean he would fly on any other time if he was under oath? >> host: what do you do in the oil industry? >> caller: i'm an equipment operator and heavy truck operator. >> host: what kind of energy -- does colorado have oil wells? >> caller: yes, they do. i'm from colorado, but i work in the balkan oil shale formation in north dakota.

>> host: are you working on the pipeline? >> caller: no, i work in the production segment of the industry. we moved the rigs around and make sure that the company is always drilling oil to better this country. >> host: thank you for sharing a little bit with us tonight. lamar oleksander, republican, tennessee retiring, here is his statement. the question isn't whether the president did it but whether the u.s. senate or the american people should decide what to do about what he did. i believe that the constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in iowa on monday. founding documents provide for duly elected presidents to serve with the consent of the governed, not at the pleasure of the u.s. congress. let the people decide. he is a no vote on further

witnesses. lancaster, california. >> caller: hi, thank you for taking my call. unfortunately, i can't vote for a mistrial, but i go to acquit. for one, there is no evidence. everyone's saying that he did it because he wanted to win an election. they already need sanders. he already beat joe biden. i mean come he doesn't need to bring up dirt. he ran his campaign on fighting corruption. and when he runs against those two again, he has his record as a president. let us, as the americans, vote for who we want in office. >> host: joanne, laurel park new york. good evening to you.

how would you vote? >> caller: good evening. first i want to thank you for taking my call, and i want to commend my fellow american skier. skier. everyone is so smart. i would go to acquit because i'm from queens as well and people don't understand queens and brooklyn people, they tell it like it is and a lot of people don't like that. you have a doctor that is an excellent surgeon and everyone is waiting on line for him, but he has terrible bedside manners and tells you you have to lose 100 pounds, quit smoking and drinking and then i can q. are you and people don't like to hear that. but i do think that he has been railroaded without evidence and house managers have been appealing to people's emotions without presenting evidence. they don't have a case. >> host: did you hear anything new over the last week that convinced you differently on your position? >> caller: i've been following it is the beginning, and bicycle

it for what it was. i believe it is a political movement to remove him from the ticket for 2020 and take the power away from the american people. now they are not even lying about it. they are just outright saying that is what they are going to do. just praying for the country and praying for all of us that we can -- we are americans and i really feel the president is being railroaded. he's been terribly abused in the media. he wouldn't give such trash talk if he wasn't treated that way first. >> host: misti in pueblo, colorado. >> caller: how is it going? >> host: what have you learned in last week -- >> caller: it has been the same story since it all started when trump got elected. i voted for trump, that they

voted because he was trash and something different. everything he said he was going to do, he has worked to try to do it. everybody sits back and cries about this and they want to go this direction to the extreme, but we don't even know what our country is anymore. we have bigger problems than what is going on in congress right now, and they don't care. i think it's time that we get rid of 90% of the people that are in washington and start fresh. start with people actuall that y want to make things better. >> host: are you planning at this point to vote to reelect president trump? >> caller: if they let him get that far, i mean, that's the question. >> host: did you contact your two senators, bennett and gardiner during this time to voice your opinion? >> caller: then it has been garbage since he's gotten in here. we have a new governor that has his own ideas.

colorado is 100% blue when it comes to our government, and we are turning into california, and that's not something any of us you want. i don't know who they talk to when they say colorado is a blue state, but i've never met those people. [laughter] >> host: that is misti and play below. maryland, harvard, it is your turn. >> caller: yes, i love donald trump. i love his honesty. i love his common sense. i love that he has helped our economy. he's strengthened our military again to make us the greatest military in the world again. he is liked by so many people, and if you notice tonight, it's kind of interesting. we are -- a lot of the people calling tonight or when in --

are women. my friends, whether they are independent or republican, they happen to love him. and everyone i know seems to love him. there is a few foolish people that listen to the fake news, and they don't seem to be that involved and listening, so they really don't know the facts behind the history of how the democrats have been attacking him. >> host: so how do you get your news? >> caller: i you read, i go to events, i go to listen to fox news every moment i can. i love rush limbaugh. i think that he was the beginning of it all, and he was such a great man and is still a great man. talk radio, i listen to talk

radio. i'm very involved in the process. i have a friend of mine right now running in the state of washington, the sixth congressional district. her name is doctor elizabeth kritzelmier running against a democrat that sai said he's a moderate but really votes 100% with nancy pelosi and 98% with maxine waters and adam schiff and 95%. we are opening that up, and we think we can win this race. no one thought we could. we are going to try very hard and very diligently. doctor elizabeth kritzelmier from washington. >> host: came from north carolina texts doesn't white house counsel ascertainment that

aid was held for corruption opened the door for the rebuttal witnesses that have firsthand knowledge of the truth? that is the question he would like to ask. josh columbia south carolina, give us your impression. >> caller: yes, sir. i'm just listening to the calls and wondering if i'm seeing the same and hearing as everyone else on tv because i can't believe that everybody is repeating the same talking points from the president, which are simply distractions. the most disturbing thing is we don't need to hear the evidence. the house brings the charges and tthe senate tries the case. like jerald nadler said, every 10-year-old knows that any trial, you have evidence. evidence means witnesses. evidence means documents. these senators have no backbone. 15 out of 15 in impeachment trials in history, you've had

witnesses. how can they get up here with a straight face and any sense of patriotism and say that we shouldn't hear from john bolton who was there, he was in the room, he has the evidence. why can't we hear from him? because the answers aren't going to be good for donald trump. >> host: did the house impeachment managers make a good case in your view? >> caller: they threw their case 100%. adam schiff talked about the evidence. he talked about the facts. the president's lawyers tried to distract from the evidence and talk about here are the matters like hunter biden, that has nothing to do with what the president actually did. used it for personal gain and it's called misconduct in office. >> host: dennis is calling in from california. dennis, what's the name of your town? >> caller: tihachipi.

>> host: where is it located? >> caller: 40 miles east of speakers. >> host: tell us your impressions of the past we. >> caller: i've watched it pretty close and the only thing i can leave you with that i don't feelcombined with our system, but the lawyers they call it a trial, and i don't believe that the trial because there is no cross-examination and when you have a trial you have somebody on trial for this accused of a crime. they are saying there is no crime involved here. they mentioned the two cases were implications, but to me i don't understand why it seems like the lawyers it's just an acting thing they are obsessed with to get up there and talk

and i'm talking about both sides. i am a trump supporter. i feel like he is for the people because he's not a politician. someone said earlier that it's called -- it's a bad thing in our political government that runs very deep that we've got corruption in our own government. that's what i was trying to say. there is so much corruption that they can't get the truth out with all these lawyers, and i just feel like with the trial, if defense says something or prosecutions of some thing, there's usually a rebuttal to the judge or cross-examination or you can't say that. it's speculation. this doesn't happen in this.

>> host: we are going to leave it there. thank you so much. from politico publication says democratic senator dick durbin says the democrats are still deciding how to handle procedural motion tomorrow, which will basically determine if an acquittal vote is at 3 p.m. or 3 a.m.. quote, i don't think chuck schumer has made a final decision. rob in lake villa illinois. >> caller: hello, sir. thanks for taking my call. dick durbin, here in illinois and in lake county where i live, we are pushing the red wave, and it's my feeling that, you know, maybe someday illinois will become a red state because we've already had a governor put in place that was a republican, but

hopefully we can make something happen here. i just want to point out that with this trial -- and i don't even like calling it a trial because at some point you would be able to cross-examination whether you want. and as a republican, to go out on a limb, from what i'm seeing i think that we need to just go ahead and bring on the witness is because john bolton is a flat-out neoconservative. he will get up there. he's been on the stage before plenty of time, and that man can tap dance like no other, so i don't see why everybody is so afraid of john bolton up front, and if that's what they want to do, fine, go ahead and get biden and then hopefully behind him, get the whistleblower and then with adam schiff, or even if it is a staffer she claims have

contact with the whistleblower, let's put them in there, too, because if that is the path the democrats want to take to politicize this, why not capitalize on it and go right for it. >> host: hagerstown maryland just north of washington. >> caller: thank you so much for taking my call. i'm hoping for an acquittal. the more i watch the impeachment trial, what i'm seeing is eyeing a trump supporter. i think that he is trying to uphold the constitution to keep this a capitalistic society that can be successful passed down and it was trying to get conservatives and the supreme court and is trying to keep the

constitution alive in this country alive and that is what i think is driven him to step up to the plate and go in and make all these changes and as a businessman he's got a bright mind on how to do that. here's what i'm seeing in the senate right now. i just wanted to say tha let met it this way, if they get into having witnesses, the democrats are going to hijack the senate. this was done in six they were in a rush and they've been trying to impeach him before they were -- he was even inaugurated. they wanted him out and i can tell you this, what has become clear to me is schiff is doing as much pushing as he is doing and is as driven as he is and

afraid of president trump because he is going to expose, he's going to expose the democrats. there is a lot of democrats that are involved in this burisma. i don't know all the details. i've heard pieces of other countries and real estate, that the democrats are in on this and not all of the money was going to go to hunter biden. >> host: thanks for your time this evening. we will continue to take your reaction tomorrow on the washington journal be beginning 7 a.m. eastern, three selections of your reactions. beginning tomorrow 1 p.m. on c-span2. just a reminder. everything we have covered about this impeachment beginning with the impeachment inquiry in september is on the website, c-span.org/impeachment you can

see all the questions asked and you can see every news conference in the rehearing. c-span.org/mac impeachment. while the impeachment trial continues today with senator is wrapping up two days of questioning to the house managers and the president's attorneys. tomorrow, we expect both sides to make closing arguments before senators decide whether to call witnesses or move forward with voting on the two articles of impeachment. up next on c-span2, we take you back to this afternoon when the trial resumed. the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. the chaplaiwi