senator lott and senator daschle wanted the senate to look good. they wanted it to look more substantial than the house had in its actions, and they worked together and there was a lot more bipartisanship than i think anyone thought was ossible. that unique bipartisan conference in the old senate chamber produced agreement and they voted 100-0 on the senate rules. as senator kennedy and senator phil graham of texas came to the conclusion that they didn't have enough agreement to get to home plate, but they did have enough agreement to get to second base. so they would write the rules to get to second base and once they got there, we would write the rules to go home. host: this is probably a related question. in 2020, unlike 1974 and 1999, this is a presidential election year. what does that do to the process? mr. ritchie: in each of the previous cases, they were in their second terms. nixon and clinton were constitutionally unable to run for a third term. so it was not going to affect their elections. it might affect the vice president's and what w

senators are new to the senate.his shows how quickly the senate seats are turning over these days. i would suspect a much larger percentage of senators in 1999 had been there in 1974. people tended to stay longer. this is a very new process for the majority of senators. for others, it is, here we go again. they've been through the process. senators have to spend a lot of time in their seats being quiet. not what they like to do. the president chooses his defense. he could defend himself but presidents lawyers have advised not to come because you do not want to inflame the situation. so the president stays away and send legal counsel. they can be a mix of people. i think the greatest speech given in the 99 trial was given by a former senator, dale bumpers, who had left the senate before. he came back and gave a magnificent speech that helped clinton and the democrats stay united on the case. it was also a funny speech. you do not think there would be humor in the midst of a serious trial but senator bumpers had a goo

senators. this is presented to them, the weight and gravity of this, in a way that never happened with the house. the senators have to sit there and hear the facts and house members didn't have to engage in this if they didn't want to. the presentation and the pomp and that contributes to that gravity that that is the introduction to this case, the details of it that senators will be getting and i think weshld think about it in that context. >> let me talk to jon meacham on this. you are residing right now in the home state of the first president to be impeached, i assume you're coming from the hometown of the afc's favorite underdog the tennessee titans. put this in context. is this what we would have witnessed if we were alive in the 1860s for the johnson impeachment? you would have. it's -- physical embodiment. a manifestation of the central idea behind the entire constitutional structure which game from montiscu. learned about it at princeton, the college of new jersey. taught by john withe

senator byrd was the most concerned of any senator about the image of the u.s. senate.e spoke at the beginning of the closed door session in the old senate chamber about why impeachment was so important and serious and why senators had to read the oath they had taken about being impartial and take it seriously. he gave an impassioned speech at the beginning of the session. it helped. cited that is helping them reach agreement. motion tord issued a dismiss the case halfway through. everyone thought, maybe he's doing this to protect clinton. senator byrd said he was doing it to protect the senate. issaid what we are getting dueling press conferences by the parties and we are looking partisan. he deplored polarized politics. the senate voted down the motion to dismiss. but i got people back into the seriousness. host: we are already seeing reports of the press someone could move to dismiss. mr. ritchie: senate would have to consider with the public reaction would be. once speaker pelosi transmits the articles of impeachment, what is the house products -- process? mr. ritch

the senate is broken, because the senators broke it.hat letter was interesting, because approximately 40% of the senators who signed it, the former senators had served , inside the senate as senators over the last two decades, the period of time over which the senate begin to unravel, or the dysfunction increased. they did not act in ways at that time to reverse that trajectory. and now, they are writing a letter. and if you read the letter and read between the lines, it is very passive. it is that there is a mysterious force out there that is somehow preventing senators from doing things preventing the committees , from working. as i was reading the letter i , thought the letter was aimed at the leaders. but at the very end, they said they want to make clear this is not a critique of chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell's leadership. we are not critiquing what they are doing. so it is not the committees, it is not the rank-and-file, it is not the leaders -- who does that leave? who has broken the senate? susan: in what ways is it broken? j

thank you, senator bentsen, senator quayle. we have come to the end of the questions and before i ask the candidates to make closing remarks, on behalf of the commission on presidential debates, i would like to thank all of you for joining us. senator quayle, yours is the first closing statement. sen. quayle: thank you. tonight it has been a very important evening. you have been able to see dan quayle as i really am and how george bush and i want to lead this country into the future. thank you, america, for listening and thank you for your fairness. now you will have a choice to make on election day. you will have a choice of whether america is going to choose the road of michael dukakis or the road of george bush as we marched with the 21st century. the road of michael dukakis comes down to this -- bigger government. they have always believed in higher taxes. they always have and they always will. defense,he national back to the old economics of high interest rates, high inflation, and the politics of high unemployment. bush i

. >> the senate about to gavel in. majority leader mitch mcconnell expected to ask for unanimous consent that the chamber stand in recess for the next two weeks as a precaution after republican senators mike lee, thom tillis and ron johnson tested positive for covid-19 in recent days. they approved all legislative business would be pushed to the week of october 19 with only pro forma sessions scheduled between now and then you live now to the senate floor. >> the site will come to order. the chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. >> let us pray. mighty god, you are our dwelling place and underneath are your everlasting arms. may our president and first lady feel your healing touch. my our senators who are dealing with the personal health challenge of covid-19 also experience your divine healing and comfort. lord, we trust in your support. for you continue to be the source of our hope and peace. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honora

the first impeachment was that of a senator. but the senate expelled that senator. and did not have a trial concerning the impeachment, in 1798. william blount. other impeachments followed. 17, mayd i think 16 or be little question impeachments. and the senate has convicted seven of the persons impeached. they were all federal judges. there is but one president impeached before mr. clinton. one secretary of war. judges.ral federal and, of course, now there are two presidents. as i say, one senator to begin with. i think the outcome of the trial of the senator would indicate that the senate is of the opinion that members of congress cannot be impeached. senators cannot be impeached. why? because they are not civil officers who get their commissions from the president. the president does not give me a commission. to serve as a senator. so, i'm not a civil officer. those are the exact words in the constitution. the present, the vice president, all civil officers. so, senators are not civil officers, but they can be expelled, as can house members and they have been expe

the senate as senators over the last two decades. time over which the senate begin to unravel, or the dysfunction increased. ways at thatact in time to reverse that trajectory. now they are writing a letter. ityou read between the lines is passive that there is a mysterious force that is presenting and preventing the committees from working. i thought the letter was aimed at the leaders. they said they want to make clear this is not a critique of crushed -- of chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell's leadership. we are not critiquing what they are doing. it is not the committees or the rank-and-file's or the leaders. who does that leave? who has broken the senate? >> in what ways is it broken? job is tok it's produce legislation. the senate is supposed to have legislation. but how it passes legislation is how it matters. there is a deliberative side of things. the senate is a place where americans see their claims adjudicated. whether on the majority or minority side. i think the senate is broken because it no longer serves that role. it i

to senators speaking out before the trial. senator schumer. was running for the senate. during the impeachment process back in 1998. he voted against articles in the house judiciary committee on the house floor and a major part of his senate campaign as you listen to this, was literally promising new yorkers in advance -- in advance that he would vote to acquit president clinton. . people asked if it was appropriate to him to prejudge like that. he dismissed the question, saying, quote, this is not a criminal trial. but something the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. that was the democratic leader in the 1998 senate campaign. that was a newly sworn in senator schumer in 1999. a few weeks later, during the trial itself, democratic senator tom harkin successfully objected to the use of the word jurors to describe senators because the analogy to a narrow legal proceeding was so inappropriate, according to senator harkin. so look, mr. president, i respect our friends across the aisle, but it appears that one symptom of t

senator. finally i will resist the urge to tell you what is wrong with the senate, how it operates today. you hear it every time a senator gives a farewell address, instinctively, you know it deep down. i will offer you this, there is a book i finished reading recently that a former staffer wrote, he wrote a book called the last rate senate. it ought to be required reading for every senator coming in. it was published eight years ago about how the two congresses during the carter administration and how they operated. how they got things done for the american people. operatete does not today in that fashion, i was here for one of those years. closing is even more important today as when the book was published, he said america is adrift in turbulent and dangerous waters facing enormous challenges at home and abroad. we urgently need our once vaulted political system to function at its best instead of at its worse -- worst. to make sure it is better being a senator today in the -- than in the 196

senate.o i lot comes through here. if you want to get rid of common core or fix no child left behind, this is where you come. if you want to get medical miracles into a doctor's office more rapidly, you come here. if there is an opioid crisis, here. big argument over labor, here. so a lot happens here. we've got 23 members of the senate, from elizabeth warren and bernie sanders to rand paul. so if we can get a consensus here, we think the country can live with it as well. >> highlights of your chairmanship over the years? senator alexander: one emotional highlight was when i was sitting there and all 23 senators voted to report the bill fixing no child left behind. it may sound silly, but think about the elementary and secondary education. and everybody is an expert. it is like being in the university of tennessee football stadium with 100,000 people, all of whom played a little football, so they know what plates a call. that is the weight is with everything from sexual orientation to common

another massive senate shaking escalation by senate democrats in 2013, the nuclear option. they broke the senate rules to change the senate rules so that a democratic president would not have to play by the same rules they are invented shortly before. and with a 51-vote threshold in place, democrats began confirming nominees without meaningful minority support. i said at the time, quoting myself, they'd regret it a lot sooner than they would think. well, that regret began in 2016. in 2016 when justice scalia passed away, senate republicans had won our majority a year later. as i said then when i recommended to all of you that we not fill that vacancy created in the middle of a presidential election year that you'd have to go back to 1888 to find the last time a senate of a different party from the president confirmed a supreme court nominee to a vacancy created during the presidential election year. in other words, not surprisingly, one party in control of the senate was less inclined and had been less inclined for a very long time confirm a supreme court nominee in the mid

let me clarify senate rules and senate history for those who may be confused. first, about this fantasy that the speaker of the house will get to hand-design the trial proceedings in the senate, that's obviously a nonstarter. what i've consistently said is pretty simple. the structure for this impeachment trial should track with the structure of the clinton trial. we have a precedent here. that means two phases. first, back in 1999, the senate passed a unanimous bipartisan resolution 100-0 that set up the initial logistics like briefs, opening arguments, and senator questions. it stayed silent on mid trial questions such as witnesses until the trial was actually under way. that was approved 100-0. somewhat predictably, things started to diverge along party lines when we considered those later procedural questions, but the initial resolution, laying out the first half of the trial, was approved 100-0. i believe we should simply repeat that unanimous bipartisan precedent at this time as well. that's my position. president trump should get the same treatment that

senator dodd and senator santorum.hey talk about the wrangling. >> these important meetings that rick and i had, in the old senate chamber, no staff or family. just 100 of us in the room. several days before the trial began in the senate. we decided we were on trial. we needed to conduct ourselves well. the world was watching how we do this. >> i feel very proud of the fact that we found a middle ground. not everything the house wanted in a trial or everything the democratic base wanted, to just not give any recognition of the house, vote it down. people say it is so contentious now. it was contentious then. but leaders were able to lead and get their caucus to go along. host: we are hearing this time it might be a partyline vote. what is the difference. mr. ritchie: there was a great sense of relief when the senate voted and the senators came up unanimously with a set of rules. they returned the dignity of the senate. the appearance of what they were doing. if you voted the party voted to remind people it is a partisa

in the senate will proceed. stomach ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to in the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. >> without objection. >> i ask unanimous consent the proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolution which were submitted earlier today. that is rez 597 through srs 599. >> is there objection to proceeding to the measures en bloc? without objection the senate will proceed. >> i know no further debate on the resolutions. so is there further debate? if not all in favor, say i those opposed, no the eyes appeared habit. the eyes due habit the resolutions are agreed to en bloc. >> the motion to be reconsidered and laid upon the table all en bloc. >> without objection understand their two bills at the desk and asked for the reading en bloc. >> the clerk will read the titles and bills for the first ipad. >> the bill to extend the loan forgiveness. for the paycheck protection program and for the purpose hr 6800 and act making emergency suppl

senator. tom udall has literally been a giant in public service, no one should surprised. he summed up with what drove him saying, the thing that inspired me if you had a good idea of reforming something and you really stuck to it, you could literally change the world. i'm going to miss senator udall and we're also going to miss his wife jo who i got to know well. i have a fond memory of one of the new senator's orientation, where we were tasked to the new senators in the building and giving them tips how though operate and handle the first years and how you can stay married while being a u.s. senator. i remember it fondly because mitt romney was sitting in the front row taking notes diligently and i thought maybe he didn't need our advice on this. but tom and joe jo are an incredible couple in a town where it's not easy to keep a strong and beautiful relationship. i want to thank him for on behalf of his state, the beautiful state of new mexico and thank the state for sharing their extraordin

republican senators must rise to the occasion. senator durbin. >> thank you senator schumer. from this first day of the impeachment trial we learned senator mcconnell and his political loyalty to this president is more important than respect for the constitution, the integrity of the senate, the standards and commondecency and decorum which have been prevalent in this body from its start. with this organizing resolution outlining the course of the trial , senator mcconnell and those who enable him demonstrate the republicans believe the american people are not entitled to judge for themselves when president trump abused the power of his office andobstructed this congress and the discharge of its constitutional duties . senator mcconnell and those who enable him believe that if they hurry the proceedings, respect the evidence, limit the witnesses and forced the whole enterprise into the midnight hour, they can conceal misconduct by the president. they believe the american people will not take notice. they are wrong. the american people are not asleep at the wheel of this democ

senator crapoh, senator inhofe, senator alexander, the work that we did together, senator collins, iam especially grateful for the ranking members of the committees, senators brown, casey and read, the friendship and counsel have been invaluable and i want to thank the minority leader for all of his work on behalf of me. as you guys know, senator schumer never tried to put puppet strings on me. i got accused of that but he never ever tried. for that i am very grateful. whether you vote for me and i am proud of the work we did on your behalf, accomplished on your behalf, thank you for giving me the honor of serving you as your senator. to tell you what is wrong with the senate, how it operates today. you hear it whenever a senator gives a farewell address and instinctively you know it, i will offer you this, there is a book i finished reading recently, former staffer, you may remember, a book called the last great senate. every senator coming in published eight years ago, how they operate, the majority leader, howard baker is the minority leader and how they got things done for the am

the current democratic leader senator schumer, was running for the senate. during the houtz impeachment process back in 1998. he voted against the articles both in the judiciary committee and on the floor. in a major part of his senate campaign that year, listen to this, was literally promising new yorkers, in advance, in advance. that he would vote to quit president clinton. people ask if it was appropriate for him to prejudge like that. he dismissed the question saying quote this is not a criminal trial. but something the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. that was endemic craddick leader in the senate campaign. that was a newly sworn in senator schumer in 1999. a few weeks later, during the trial itself, democratic senator tom harkin successfully objected to the use of the worst board jurors to describe senators because the analogy to a narrow legal proceeding was so inappropriate. that was according to senator harkin. so look mr. president, i respect our friends across the aisle. but it appears, o tha

six of them offered by one senator, senator rand paul, the junior senator from kentucky. and you remember them as i do. he basically said here is a gun to your head. if you want to go home, i get a vote. he got his vote, and as he reminded me, he lost every one of those amendments. so six of the 22 amendments were, frankly, one senator's effort to have a record vote, and that's all it was. 16 substantive amendments in a year, and you are arguing we cannot change the senate, we cannot transform the senate, we cannot consider changes in the rules of the senate. i know better. i know that you are a good legislator and you are as well, senator. i know that you can take a bill through a committee, bring it to the floor and defend it on the floor and go through the amendment process, and we all know that that is how the senate was designed to work. what happened? what happened to this senate? well, if you take a look at the number of cloture motions to end a filibuster that were filed some 13 years ago, they averaged about 68 a year. do you know how many we now have? over 250 a

on march 9, 1967, senator howard h. baker junior, the newly elected senator from tennessee, made his maiden address. st speeh on the floor of the united states senate. he spoke for too long. the republican leader of the senate, also baker's father in law, senator dirksen, walked over to congratulate him and then said, howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought, which is good advice for a farewell address as well. as senator baker's legislative assistant, i was also his speechwriter for that maiden address, or at least i thought i was. he developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech, so i asked to see him and i said do we have a problem with our relationship? he said, no, we have a perfect relationship. you write what you want to write and i will say what i want to say. i learned a couple of of other things about saying what i want to say. one came from alex haley, the author of "roots" who heard me speak once and called me aside afterwards and said may i make a suggestio

mcconnell: for the information of all senators, after the senate adjourns today, we will have our regular pro forma meetings through the end of the state work period. if the speaker of the house and the minority leader of the senate decide to finally let another rescue package move forward for workers and for families, it would take bipartisan consent to meet for legislative business sooner than scheduled. as has been the case, the senators would receive at least 24 hours' notice before any unanticipated votes. the american people need more help. coronavirus is not finished with our country, so congress cannot be finished helping our people. republicans have been waiting and trying to pass bipartisan relief literally for weeks. i would hope our democratic colleagues will let the senate act sometime soon. i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 771. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomina

watching the scene on the senate for the cameras controlled by the senate recording studio with the senate impeachment trial it could drag into next week even as republican leaders as needed additional testimony that it could extend into next week due to scheduling concerns over the iowa caucuses on monday and the state of the union address on tuesday. that politico points out nothing is decided and they spent an hour hashing out in the white house says it wants more time to prepare for closing arguments. that is reporting from politico right now. . . . . where senator schumer has left the senate for as he meets with his democratic colleagues and floor managers. to decide how long they want to continue the process and whether or not it continues into next week. that is where things stand at the top of our 5:00 o'clock eastern time in washington. [no audio] [no audio] >> the chief justice john roberts who turned 65 on monday has now left the day, the chair is empty and he is talking to senator michael bennet, the democrat of colorado running for president. and on the other side of the scree

of the senate. so the senate has to approval the treaties. the house does not. the senate does. so this one power. also, anytime the president makes a appointment. a cabinet, ambassador, supreme court of course. those folks would have to come in front of the senate and be approved by the senate or reject it. so here in philadelphia, we have our very first treaty approved by the senate which is the g treaty. and that led to the fight in the house of representatives about whether or not to pay for it. but over that same issue we have the first projection of a presidential nominee by the senate. john roth ledge, who is actually a center of the u.s. constitution, one of the players and creating the constitution, as one of washington's first choices for the original six justices on the supreme court. he actually accepts. but then resigned the post without ever having served on the supreme court. he would later become the -- on the south carolina supreme court. john j, resigns, he's elected governor of ne

senate trial. have to address some of the deepest institutional questions contemplated by our constitution. we'll have to decide whether we're going to safeguard core governing traditions or let short-term partisan rage overcome them. back in december i explained how house democrats' splint into the most rushed -- sprint into the most rushed, least fair and least thorough impeachment inquiry in american history has jeopardized the foundations of our system of government. last spring speaker pelosi told the country, quote, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don't think we should go down that path. that was the speaker less than a year ago. back in 1998 when democrats were busy defending president clinton, congressman jerry nadler said, there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported bid one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other. such an impeachmen

senate republicans must [inaudible] we should be senators and follow our own to uphold justice. this is a deep partisan but that was true during the clinton impeachment trials and the johnson impeachment trials.t whether we label democrat or republican we are first and foremost united states senators. there's only 100 of us to represent over 300 million americans. that's why i believe that the senate itself is now on trial. i've never seen a trial like this where the facts are in dispute. i've tried many, many cases both inct private practice and as a prosecutor. i've never tried a case where there areo no answers. and more to the point, the senate has never held a presidential impeachment trial without hearing from witnesses. the senate and the american people deserve to have their story. we shouldn't be complicit in the cover-up. i wouldn't suggest to any senator that his or her oath requires at this time a specific verdict. that is independent from the trial. but i strongly believe that our oath requires a belief in partially. all senators supporting fair trial, one that plac

senate.jority leader mitch mcconnell but our cameras be allowed inside the chamber for the impeachment trial, no word on that from the majority leader. we are standing by with you, the senate is in recess subject to the call of the chair which means they could come in at any moment. we are set to get underway at 1:00 pm eastern. it should be coming up shortly live on c-span2. ♪ [inaudible shouting] [inaudible shouting] [inaudible shouting] >> here on c-span2 we are waiting along with you for the senate to gavilan, to begin the day and we heard from mitch mcconnell and democratic leader chuck schumer, what they call leader time in the senate, it is typical for any day in the u.s. senate that the leaders would have that time to speak about any issue, focused on the impeachment trial of donald trump. senator schumer said then in his earlier news conference that he would bring up amendments, proposed amendments to the resolution that would guide the impeachment trial, the first amendment will com

senators. we have already gotten some unanimous consent to conduct other business during the impeachment trial. so this coming week we will have an opportunity for the introduction of bills and deal with some committee hearings. that has been determined. so we can do other business. we have a privilege to by kainer kane -- senator dealing with the authorization of the use of military force in iran. i hope we can take that up because of the urgency. so we can do other business, but the impeachment trial will be our primary focus. we will not be in session from early morning until late at night. i don't think that is going to be the case. we will have some time in the morning, prep time, we need time to go over the information presented, so i think we will get some time to deal with that. and we have other issues we will almost for certain require our attention. >> one thing that is going to be different is that the restrictions that were instituted by the senate, particularly in regard to the pr

[cheers and applause] senator sanders: i am a united states senator, and i hear a lot of speeches onhe floor of the senate from conservative republicans, and their mantra is that they believe in small government. they believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people. well, i say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, understand that it is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: and i want to speak to the men here today, because women now are under political assault all over this country. men, stand with the women. they need your help. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: and my promise to you is i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or the federal bench who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: trump and his friends want massive cuts to planned parenthood. [booing] senator sanders: well, we have some bad news for them. we are going to greatly expand funding for planned parenthood. [cheers

in the senate. we want to show it was possible to have a hearing without physically being in a hearing room. we are told this is a first are the u.s. senate. in my view, remote congressional proceedings should never be the norm. it should be limited to times of true and nationwide emergencies, and only when it is not feasible for senators to be in the same place. any authorization to proceed remotely, whether it is committee meetings or the votes should be limited in duration. any extension should require a vote by the entire senate. our goal should be to bring both our country and congress back to work in person as soon as safely possible. there are times when that is not possible. these principles are outlined in the bipartisan remote voting resolution i introduced with senator dick durbin. it allows a majority and minority leaders to agree, put in place a temporary voting arrangement for remote voting in times of extraordinary crisis. after 30 days, senators would have to vote to allow that remot

senator: thanks, chris.is: up next we will get reaction from senator chris coons, a key ally of democratic nominee joe biden as you get older, are you worried about staying sharp and alert? forebrain, from the harvard-educated experts at force factor, contains key ingredients to help boost memory, learning, clarity, focus, and more! rush to walmart and find forebrain, our #1 brain booster, in the vitamin aisle. let's make hand washing andren important one.ssons. safeguard is donating ten million dollars in hand soaps and sanitizers to families in need. safeguard your family. wash away germs. chris: when president trump nominates a new justice the senate judiciary committee will hold hearings on the pick. democratic senator chris coons is a key member of that committee and also part of joe biden's inner circle. senator, what's wrong with president trump and the senate going ahead and confirming a replacement for ruth bader ginsburg? i understand you won't like their choice, but there's nothing in the constitu

senate. it's been an honor of a lifetime to serve the great people of wyoming in this position for f e last 24 years. i've really enjoyed being a senator. not for the title, not for the recognition and, certainly, not for the publicity. i love solving problems for folks in wyoming and america. i like working on legislation. it might shock those who know me, but i never intended to get into politics. awhile i always had great respt for those who serve in public office, it wasn't my calling when i left college. but over 50 years ago, i joined the young men's leadership training group, at a state convention in cody i spoke about the value of leadership in communities. the key note speaker was al stimson who would go on to serve three terms in the united states senate. after i gave my pitch on the importance of leadership training, senator simpson did his fascinating and humorous speech and then took me aside and said i don't even know what party you're in, but it's time you put your money where

this is the senate trial where the senate has the power to determine what is happening. this will be a subpoena has bipartisan support by definition because you will need 51 and this will be signed by the chief justice. i think the courts will not give much attention to an argument of executive privilege in the situation. it is the impeachment trial where the senate has the right to conduct the trial. >> senatoyou brought up that jon has maintained the president's characterization of what happened, are you concerned that maybe johnson is the one not telling the truth? >> what i am calling on is for everyone, including ron johnson to vote to call john bolton as a witness. we need witnesses, we need document and witnesses with first-hand knowledge. i quoted what johnson recorded that the president said to him and their phone call on august 31, 2019. , it is inconsistent with the reporting last night of what john bolton had said. he said he heard from the president. one of them is not telling the truth and i think that means we should all have an interest in hearing from jo

-- >> senator who? >> reporter: senator collins said the timing of the parnas documents were perplexing to her. can you lay out why these documents are being released now and whether more will be coming. >> well, they were released now because that's when they were obtained and then his going further into public interviews on that is very come it. if somebody like barbias came forward and there was evidence, there was reason to believe that some of that was factual, there would be a special prosecutor appointed. does anybody think that the rogue attorney general is going to support a special prosecutor? no, because he'si implicated in all of this. this is an example of all of the president's henchmen and i hope that the senators do not become part of the president's henchmen. >> wait a minute. somebody new. you can't get a question every time. cheryl. >> reporter: given the parnas interviews last night, do you believe lev parnas should be a witness at the trial? and if so, do you believe he would be cre

of senate. but the regional, nonetheless. the eagle on the ceiling, were not 100 percent sure the date on that, the one thing i can tell me is that the there are 15 stars bob. it so it's somewhere after the 15th state. we don't know exactly when, we may never know exactly when that was painted. but it is sort of an artistic rendering of the seal of the united states. the seal was another thing created here in philadelphia, actually, by the communal congress in the independent, in 1782. it's something that worked on throughout the revolutionary war. they kept changing a little bit here in a little bit there, until they finally worked out the final version of the seal. we have a carpet on the floor. it is a reproduction of the original carpet. the original carpet, more than likely went to washington when they moved. but whatever happened to its, it is long gone, we don't know what happened to the original senate carpet. but he was made specifically for the room here. and there was actually enough

bentsen. >> good evening senator bentsen and senator quayle. on the cleanup in this order and i've been tried to clean what is left on base. i have a follow-up question for you senator quayle, but senator bentsen i first when asked question about packed money. i'm sure you're prepared to talk about. governor dukakis has tried to make it a major issue in this campaign, and he has you as a running mate and a man who leads the league at last count in the receipt of pack money, that being the money raised by these special organizations. that is a kind of campaign financing which governar dukakis finds so distasteful that he has refused to accept any of it. do you find that embarrassing? >> no i don't find it embarrassing at all. because you have to remember that pack money gives the result of last campaign reform bill. one that tax about employees having greater participation. and what i've done, in pike money is what my opponents in campaign has done in his campaign. he has -- he's been raising packed money to. what you have to do is comply with t

in his early years in the senate the senator roberts indicated he liked the senate intelligence committee during theime of the 911 attacks and under his leadership committee conducted a swping and exhaustive w review of u.s. intelligence which led to critical reforms t put us in a better position and to know more and protectmericans better and that work on the intelligence reform and intelligence reform earned him a spote in a very distinguished guest speaker program that prestigious land and lecture series kansas ste university.d combining his experience and agriculture and intelligence and defense senator roberts has laid the groundwork for the national bio and agro defense facility at his alma mater in manhattan, kansas. it brings great oppornity to our state and we are so pleased to have pat accomplishment benefithe country and our state for generations to come. pat roberts deserves great credit for the eisenhower memorial and i've been aund this issue for a long time an it has been challenging from the get-go and nothing was easy and controversy apparently had fallenly every new memo

question to you, senator.t would she say about all the her daughter could be tapped to be joe biden's runningmate and possibly the vice president of the united states? senator harris: you know, my mother was always -- and i, torefore, i believe you have focus on what's right in front of you instead of looking to the thing over there because the right in front of you needs your attention. and right now my focus, on what we need to do around addressing the impacts f the coronavirus, in terms of the public health impact, economic impact. focus is passing the justice in policing act. hese are the things front and center. these are the things causing people to stand in bread lines marching in the street. that's what i'm focused on. jonathan: that's what you're focused on. question is, your mom was always very proud of you -- enator harris: and my mother was very practical. you've not met a more practical life. in your she was a fighter and she was practical. and she would say, baby, just what's right in front of yo

i am supportive of both senator kaine and senator sanders' efforts, and i urge the senate to consider both in the coming days. additionally, the trump administration must start acting with greater transparency. by law, the trump administration must make a notification to congress when it conducts a military operation like the one last friday. that's known as a war powers act notification. unusually, the trump administration made the notification saturday, after the action occurred, and then they did it in a completely classified format. let me be clear, an entirely classified notification in the case of this particular military operation is simply not appropriate, and there appears to be no legitimate justification for classifying this notification. so ranking member menendez and i sent a letter to the president urging declassification. it is critical that national security matters of such importance, war and peace, the possibility of another, quote, endless war in the middle east, that knowledge of the actions and justification should be shared with the american people in a timely ma

not all of the powers of the senators are exercised on the senate floor. each member of the senate has a unique role to participate and practice oversight to hold the government accountable and that's part of our duties. except most often that's the part of our duties that is most ignored. to know how to reach a destination, you must first know where you are and without oversight, effective vigorous oversight, you'll never solve anything. you cannot write a bill to fix an agency unless you have an understanding of the problem and you can only know this by conducting oversight, asking the tough questions, holding the bureaucrats accountable, find out what works and what doesn't and know what has already been done. effective oversight is an effective tool to expose government overreach, wasteful spending. but it also markedly exposes where we lose our liberty and our essential freedoms. i've had some fun through the years taking some criticism for the -- and it's opinion, i agree. everybody in the west book has a great defense of why it's there. but the real

another massive senate escalation by senate democrats in 2013, they both changed the senate rules for the democratic president would not have to play by the sameho rules they had invented. shortly before. with the 51 vote threshold in place, democrats began confirming nominees without meaningful minority support. i said at t the time, quoting myself, they regret it a lot sooner than they would think. that regret again in 2016. in 2016 with justice scalia republicans won our majority a year later. as i said then, when i recommended to all of you that we not fill the vacancy created in the middle of a presidential election year, you have to go back to 1888 to find the last time senate of a different party from the president confirmed the supreme court nominee was created during the presidential year. not surprisingly, one party in control of the senate was less inclined and had been less inclined for a very long time. confirm supreme court nominee in the middle of the presidential election year. within the rights of the senate to do that, because what had clearly developed over the year

united states senate. bret. >> bret: again we will hear from senator sanders here on "special report" in just a minute. david, thank you. less than one week away from those two senate runoff elections crucial in georgia and the nearly two months since the presidential election we have seen a record number of dollars and surrogates boring into the peach state. we have team coverage night. correspondent steve harrigan is on the ground in atlanta tracking the latest irrelevance but first correspondent peter doocy is taking a look at the big picture live from washington, georgia. leaving computer. >> good evening, bret and now that we're on the ground in georgia we are noticing that people can get a lot closer to the candidates than we have gotten use to on these presidential campaign beats during the pandemic. one thing hasn't changed. that is the long shadow cast over this election by president trump. >> we are going to keep fighting. >> democrats are moving on. >> donald trump is leaving a georgia voter sen

should not have been sent to access to the senate when the senate floor and the senate chamber gallery during all of the proceedings involving the exhibition of consideration of the articles of impeachment against donald john traub president of the united states at all times that the senate is setting and trial with the chief justice of the united states presiding be in accordance with the allocations and provisions now send to the day and that it be printed and the record is a rejection if not so ordered i should not have been sent the senate pursued as a consideration aventuras for 71 submitted earlier today. the clerk will report senate resolution $471.00 authorizing the taking of a photograph in the chamber of the united states senate. is or objection to proceeding to the consideration without objection then the senate will proceed unanimous consent the rose aleutian be agreed to in the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate without objection so ordered now mr president for the information all senators a few minutes ago

amy coney barrett: thank you, senator. >> senator: yield back, chairman. >> senator blackburn. >> you have been watching the second day of questioning of amy coney barrett, nominee president trump put forward to be next associate justice of the united states supreme court. we are going to continue monitoring that hearing, we will bring you more. we want to give you taste of what "the five" is thinking. kennedy, jesse a greg /* and grg gutfeld is here. senator amy klobuchar. if we could do, i felt like pretty aggressive. this is fine and i think judge barrett, handled it well. thought number three and get greg's thoughts overall and on this particular sound. >> did you have then a general understanding that one of the president's campaign promises was to repeal the affordable care act when you were nominated? >> hon. amy coney barrett: i, as i said before, i'm aware the president opposes the affordable care act. >> were you aware when you were nominated? >> hon. amy coney barrett: senator klobuchar, i think the republicans have made that clear to the public discourse. >> senator: is th

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the senate cannot be complicit in the cover-up. we may hear more reaction to the impeachment news when the senate convenes today at 3 p.m. eastern. we also expect more on nominations. the senate will swear in the newest member, kelly leffler, who replaces johnny isakson. watch the senate live on c-span2 in the house live on c-span. the impeachment of president trump. continue to follow the process on c-span leading to a senate trial. live unfiltered coverage on c-span, on demand at c-span.org/impeachment, and listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ announcer: tonight on the communicators. whoan of freedom health, advocate for democracy, talk about the report on internet freedom. >> what we are seeing is general media used to be a level playing field for free expression by activists and ordinary users. now it is being co-opted by some of the more powerful, well resourced actors in society. i think that is where social media companies need to re-level the playing field to root out bad actors. make certain policy changes within the alg

we'll see the senate chamber when the senate chamber feels it's time for us to see the senate chamber. >> it's so different from the -- i mean, we sat, almost this exact group assembled, the first day of the house impeachment investigation where the testimony of ambassador taylor had not yet transpired, where the attacks, the endless attacks and outing of the whistle-blower had not yet happened. and it's so interesting to see the senate, just by being temperamentally distinct from the house by having different members with different relationships with trump. claire, do you have more hope that there is more unknown about how this ends than you did at the beginning of the house process? >> well, while you talked about -- i think i hope that there will be witnesses. >> so there will be more information. >> you referenced the polling numbers on witnesses. i would reference you the polling numbers on president trump within the republican party. they are sky high. and so for the majority of these senators it is deciding that they are truly taking a risk that they would be able to continue a