but as chad pergram was saying, now how do you get to the end?se is confident there are not 67 votes to take the president out. there might be a couple defections but that is only going to get you two may be 50, 51 votes maximum, so certainly not 67. so president trump is confident he is not going to be removed from office and you watch because he tweeted about it today, saying he believed the process and the house was completely unfair. the democrats had all the witnesses they wanted, a lot of it was behind closed doors. some transcripts were not released. his team was not allowed any witnesses in the house proceeding. didn't even have a chance to present its case until it got to the senate and that is something that he will definitely focus in on between now and november. to say that republicans are not getting a fair shake out of this process and that nothing should ever happen like this to an american president. the president will say he is doing this for future presidents, not just himself. >> dana: he has said that. we have news from chad p

chad pergram, you have to get back there on the hill. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> i want to scoot to the legality of this, the case itself. andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney, former federal prosecutor, fox news contributor. andy, next steps and ceremony. the building of the case begins now. what is happening for republicans, what is happening for democrats? >> well, the building of the case should have happened already, harris. that's one of the big problems that we have here. i've heard your discussion with my colleagues about the fact that there's more information that is coming over even as the articles of impeachment come over. there's a promise of yet more information to come in the coming days. what strikes me is a federal judge in a normal trial would not put up with this. what you would tell the prosecutor and the house democrats in the position of the house of the prosecutors is you get back to me when you're ready to try this case. one thing we're not going to have is an active grand jury investigation o

they probably wrap up the senate trial late tomorrow night, mike. >> mike: correspondent chad pergramad, thanks a lot. >> thank you. >> mike: let's bring in republican senator from texas, ted cruz, front and center for it all. all right, senator, the breaking news tonight, no surprise on collins and romney. lamar alexander coming our reaction? >> that's a big, big deal. in terms of whether we're going to have witnesses or not, that's been up in the air a couple of weeks now. i think with this announcement, the chances of additional witnesses now has plummeted. i think, in all likelihood, we will see a bunch of motions tomorro, abunch of arguments to, then i think we likely to move on saturday to final judgment come at the of which the president will be acquitted. >> mike: your thoughts on alaska, senator murkowski taking more time? >> as chad was talking about it, 53-47. all 47 democrats are going to vote for additional witnesses. the reason they are is because the house managers haven't proven their case, so they want to keep it open as long as possible, engage in a fishing expeditio

chad pergram, thank you so much.et's bring in dan sullivan to talk about impeachment for just a moment. i want to play for you some sound from congressman schiff. on the need for witnesses, let's get your take on that. listen. to >> the senate that the framers had in mind a real trial with witnesses and evidence, and if mcconnell makes this the first trial and history without witnesses, it will be exposed for what it is, that is an effort to cover up for the president. >> dana: what is your understanding about the situation with witnesses, senator? >> it is the confounding delay of the speaker that is finally over to get these impeachment articles. and the senate will do its constitutional responsibility. i'm very confident of that. a fair trial. we will take it seriously, and you know, the senate, adam schiff is talking about the framers, the framers to make sure setting up not only our government, but impeachment procedures that this tenant is the place where passions will cool. partisan passions will cool. we are

chad pergram live on capitol hill. >> thank you.issa: hopefully they get the people's business in before the impeachment, usmca. president capping off a win between the world's two largest economies. connell: red sox parting ways with their manager who was a major figure in major league baseball sign-stealing scandal. and someone else might be next. melissa: and spotify now has a playlists for your dog, your cat and even your hamster. connell: what? melissa: the audio streaming business launching a new podcast for dogs, a range of algorithmic curated pet playlistses, intended to calm animals left on their own. how do they know, how does the algorithm know what your pet wants to listen to. connell: i want to hear you say that again. melissa: i can't say it a second time. connell: playlists for a hamster? ♪. turn on my tv and boom, it's got all my favorite shows right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got scr

what they have heard in the ways of argument from the two sides. >> bret: i want to bring back chad pergram on capitol hill. chad, is there a behind-the-scenes talk about any estimates of how long this could go? >> the only estimates that we kind of can base anything on is what happened in 1868 to president johnson and again in 1999 with president clinton. that was about five weeks and keep in mind that from this point in the process with president clinton in 1999, they took about another seven days so they got to the heart of the trial. so they're getting right to it a little more quickly. you know, early next week on tuesday. that's why a lot of people think you could have this wrapped up certainly by the end of the month. took about five weeks with president clinton in 1999. it stretched out from the late winter into the spring with president johnson in 1868. once you start to do this, you really don't know. because, bret, we have so little precedent, we don't flow. now, the one thing that i want to be clear about is if you were to have a motion to dismiss. mitch mcconnell has indicated

one more, i want to get to chad pergram on this and try to figure out may be a timeline as to what ishead or next. what do you have? >> i am told that one of the biggest logistical hurdles to trying to wrap this up earlier next week is state of the union. that is scheduled for tuesday in the house chamber, and the problem is you cannot have all of this hyper security on the senate side of the capital and dealing with the final judgment in the senate impeachment trial, and simultaneously prepping the house chamber for the impeachment for state of the union on tuesday night. i was walking around the house side of the capital earlier today and the advanced teams were here from the secret service going through the basement in the house chamber checking things out. so right now there is not an agreement. they are proposing the idea, proposing maybe next wednesday or beyond having a final verdict in this trial. i am told that they will probably negotiate late tonight. the two things that have to happen after they get past that vote to say we will not have witnesses, and we think we know the

let's bring chad pergram back on the hill. chad, got to ask you, this is a situation now, they were each given an hour to argue each side of the amendments they are putting forth, as far as i understand it, they're getting out to 3 minutes each. >> that was one minute. >> shannon: really moving through these. what is this amendment about? >> i'm trying to see if i have information coming in here, give me one second, checking both phones, shannon. the bottom line here, this was about the timing of filing briefs. >> shannon: okay, technical, procedural. >> yeah, i'm looking at both phones come i don't have anything. >> shannon: they've had a number of attempted amendments that have to do with things like calling specific witnesses, john bolton, that was tabled meeting it doesn't get to a vote, meaning it is done for now. about documents, witnesses, all kinds of things. the last couple we have seen have been procedural in nature, about the rules, as mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader has proposed, about the timing on debat

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chad pergram, senior producer for capitol hill, how exactly does this play out?aker nancy pelosi announced a proposal on sunday night and we thought it might be up later this week but nobody has committed to that. the reason is, the attack last night in iraq kind of muddled this and a lot of people are wondering whether or not a democrat should be trying to rein in the president at this time. eliot engel is the chairman of house foreign affairs committee and he indicates that congress should get involved. >> i think if it's not this week, it will be soon. i do think the strike did create some uncertainty but, congress has to do what congress has to do. part of the frustration i have had is it congress is an equal branch of government, a coequal branch of government and has never been treated that way. >> now should congress be debating this at this time of hostilities? i ask that of jason crow. he is from colorado. >> it's way past time after 19 years of >> it is way past time. we have spent over $4 trillion executing these wars. it's time we have a national conv

chad pergram, thanks for joining us. appreciate your reporting. reporter: thank you. z: as chad was saying will it be over by friday? will senator mitch mcconnell get enough votes to block more witnesses? senator lindsey graham, based on the law and the facts he does not see a need for the witness free-for-all. the house case falls below the standards to remove a president. more witnesses would only slam the bidens. senator graham says there is quote, a mountain of evidence to suggest the biden's behavior was quote, harmful to the u.s. let's bring in republican chris stuart from house intelligence. your reaction to all this reporting? >> i think it is very unlikely the senate will call witnesses. talking to my friend in the senate, it became clear last night they didn't have the vote. they recognized didn't matter how many witnesses allowed to be called, the democratic senators would not be satisfied wit. they want to do the kavanaugh point two, blow it up to keep it going. there is no way in the world they would bring in for example, john bolton and not bring in adam

but we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill.alk us through the next few days of this. >> good afternoon bill. glad to be part of it. we don't really know exactly what's going to happen in the coming days because we still don't have this resolution setting the parameters, and the debate and the trial over the next couple days. mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader has kept that very close to his best and the impeachment managers as they are struggling to try to figure out how the next couple of days will go. is one of those managers, hakeem jeffries. >> we don't know what those will be, we simply look forward to being able to review the resolution. the american people deserve a fair trial, the constitution deserves a fair trial. >> democrats and those managers have filed what's called today a replication, which is kind of a rebuttal to what the white house filed today. the senate cannot remove him even if the house proves its case, that the chilling assertion. bill, we will have some long days the next couple of days and tom

chad pergram, congressional correspondent is with us from capitol hill. t, chad, we were thinking this thing could wrap up pretty quickly. maybe not so fast, right? >> that's right. buzzing about bolton. it could wrap up towards the end of the week here but basically one big question here, are they going to have witnesses? everybody thinks they will not get to 67 votes to convict to remove the president but will they have witnesses? that completely upended the republicans because they thought they had momentum after the brief, but succinct defense. adam schiff, the lead manager says this accentuates the need to call witness. >> let the american people along with the senators evaluate john bolton's credibility when he testifies and make their own judgment but to say we're going to blind ourselves from a witness who has so clearly relevant testimony to one of the central, most serious allegations against the president, i don't see how you can have a fair trial without testimony like that. >> now democratic official working on impeachment inquiry tells fox th

now chad pergram covering it all. fox news congressional correspondent. r viewers up to speed on the latest developments. what stood out if anything from today, chad? >> today the impeachment managers are focusing on the abuse of power article. the question adam schiff here is raising was there a nexus between the president and russia maybe through ukraine? that was an issue. why was the president so interested in the bidens? sylvia garcia, democrat from houston, one of the impeachment managers, she has an idea. listen. >> why did president trump instead wait until former vice president biden was campaigning for the democratic nomination? he pushed for it when it started to become clear that vice president biden could beat him. >> are senators listening? is this making an impact? democratic senator richard blumenthal thought some senators were doodling in the back, he said that was disgrace. opening statement in the prayer, chaplain barry black implored senators to listen up. >> help them remember that listening is often more than hearing. it can be an emp

let's bring in our brand-new congressional correspondent, chad pergram, congratulations on the title 's going to give us a rundown on what the first phase entitles. >> here's what we have right now, house speaker nancy pelosi has indicated that tomorrow, probably tomorrow afternoon, the house will have a short debate and vote to send the articles of impeachment over to the senate. she also indicated, when i spoke to her in the hall, that they might announce the actual impeachment managers, these are the prosecutors, sometime before that. later on that day, tomorrow, there will be a formal ceremony where they actually enroll and put together on parchment paper the articles of impeachment. the question is, do they actually walk these over to the senate tomorrow or does that come thursday. now, in the past hour or so, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader has indicated that he thinks they will be able to start mechanically with the trial, the opening day, as it were, sometime, maybe on thursday, maybe friday, he did not give a specific day, but that's where they actually present th

we have chad pergram on the ground at the capitol.et me tell you this, this has a couple of ways you can look at it. on one hand this is certainly a tone setter for the house. representatives would like the american people to know, for that matter, they would like the world to know that they are going to do all they can to constrain this president, especially if he decides to further engage or escalate the circumstance between the united states and iran. now, the other way to look at this. senate republicans, for that matter, a great number of house republicans will tell you, because this is a, non-binding, b it will not be a law, c, this has absolutely no impact what the president can do with respect to his powers inside the executive. now, that said, this is a worthy debate. there are a number of people who feel like this is a law, a resolution should have been overturned excite some time ago. if you allow me just a moment, i would like to share a tweet in fact that the president of the united states retweeted t was a tweet from his

the chief white house correspondent john roberts reaction from the white house, first chad pergram reporting live from capitol hill. chadha, what do the impeachment managers do now exactly? >> there is a meeting going on in the basement of the capital where all seven of these managers are getting together. i asked val demings a second term member, one of the impeachment members, when she found out if she could tell me. she kind of laughed and said no. but they were kind of gnomic kind of plotting their strategy but keep in mind, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell allocates 24 hours for the house to present their case, divide that by seven, well, you can see where this is a lot of time for each of those managers. and the 13 managers they had in 1999, there is a lot for these managers to do. we don't know which ones will handle individual sections or portfolios or lines of questioning. we just don't know. that is something they are trying to figure out right now. i am told they all found out that they would be impeachment managers in the last 24 hours or so. so they are planning their

chad pergram tracking it all live on capitol hill. ikely know what happens today, chad in the trial, but you're saying a lot can come to a head tomorrow. take us through it. >> a lot of pressure to wrap this sometime tomorrow night. they will continue with the question and answer period today. probably through about 11:00. they're up to 135 questions so far. that is a lot more than the number of questions which were asked in president clinton's trial in 1999. then tomorrow is going to be the seminal day. that is when at the will have a vote whether or not to have witnesses. if they go down the witness road, that gateway, that could delay the resolution of the trial. they could vote on individual witnesses or could try to vote on slates of witnesses to kill that to get on to a final verdict. john barrasso, republican senator from wyoming indicated he thought the momentum his word on the republican side to try to wrap this up late tomorrow night. that is going to be key. listening to some of the questioning today, just the past hour or s

go back to chad pergram from capitol hill. sorry we had to interrupt you before. do we stand today? reporter: we work both ends of the shift on capitol hill. working early morning, going late at night. that is what we expect as they continue with this question and answer session where democrats and republicans in the senate are posing questions to the house impeachment managers and thenning to felling back over to the defense counsel for the president. they're up to question 31 right now. there were 106 questions posed in 1999 to the counsels in president clinton's impeachment trial. they have a long way to go if they will rival that. this will consume the next two days. then friday, is going to be a seminal day, perhaps the most important day in this impeachment trial. that's where the senate will decide whether or not to have a gateway vote as we're terming it here, to go down the road to potentially call witnesses or other documents. if they vote against that, then they could move to a final verdict sometime later on friday or saturday or over the weekend. howe

final day to make their case in president trump's impeachment trial, congressional correspondent chad pergramall of this from capitol hill, managing to stay awake. chad, andy mccarthy had a piece, saying that adam schiff really kind of opened the door for calling joe and hunter biden in because he kept mentioning the bidens, over and over and over again, and now, jay sekulow is saying basically the same thing that there's no way if they're witnesses where the democrats can avoid allowing the bidens in particular because they have been mentioning so much to which you say what? >> by our count there were 226 references yesterday during the senate trial to the bidens. when you do open the door there this is why republicans are seizing on this idea saying if you mention the bidens so much and you talk about ukraine, perhaps then we should call them , and this is where republican texas senator ted cruz thought the vote to call witnesses is right on the edge. this is why if they get to that vote maybe late next week, next thursday, a week from today, and they actually call the bidens and don't have

you've heard chad pergram say no agreement on witnesses and mitch mcconnell's argument has been overover again if the democrats wanted more witnesses, they should've called them when they had the chance in the hou house. >> [laughs] come on, trace. we know senator mcconnell has never met a situation of process he couldn't cheat his way through. he's going to do the same thing and find a way to cheat his way through it. he said it's not going to be a fair trial. he has already gone against the oath senators take to uphold it. we are on the way for the impeachment trial to be a complete farce because unfortunately republicans are in control in the senate and don't understand that this threat to our democracy. it should be taken seriously. >> trace: we have 25 seconds. do you want to jump in, ari? >> if the founders wanted it to go through court of law, it would've gone through a court of law. they put it in the senate, a political body. that's how the system is designed. it's a political impeachment. the house impeachment politically in the senate will acquit him politically. >> trace:

we get the latest from fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram is there, on the ground watching and suffering through a lot of the tediousness. speak a good evening, sean. right now the senate is debating a proposal by chuck schumer to subpoena mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff, we heard from hakeem jeffries, the chair of the democratic caucus here. there will be a vote on this later. what we see over the course of a day day are a lot of motion to table. not the wrecked up and down votes on hand. motion to table means they are going to kill it come euthanize it here. democrats are trying to engineer some of these boats to put republican senators facing tough reelection campaigns this fall on the record. susan collins of maine, courtney gardner of colorado, tom phillips of north carolina. you can imagine this is an effort to do that but they said we didn't vote against witnesses, documents, subpoenas, what we did was we were voting one step away. here is a change. we think the articles of impeachment, the case that the house prosecutors are going to make is goi

speech chad pergram covering it all on capitol hill for us. chad, thanks. >> ed: while all that is happening, president trump's and davos selling the american strength on the economy. john roberts is there and he joins us in our? >> bill, good afternoon. ed, sorry. old habits die hard. good afternoon to you. the president had that speech of the world economic forum today. to do the work of the nation while back and capitol hill, democrats are trying to cut him off at the knees, that he's trying to sell world leaders and global business leaders on investing in america. there's a bit of a campaign speech in there, as well. the president touting the results of economic policies he ran on in 2016 and implement it in his first term as president. economic policies that have resulted in economic growth and historically low unemployment numbers, that he talked about when he was asked about impeachment during his bilateral meeting with the e.u. commission president. listen here. >> that whole thing is a hoax. it goes nowhere because nothing happened. th

as we learn more, let's get to capitol hill correspondent chad pergram on what more you can tell us about? >> that's pretty much all we have at this stage. they say it's flimsy, perversion of the constitution, we will be parsing that in the next couple of minutes. this is the latest in a series of briefs that we are going to be seeing over the next couple of days here. the house has an opportunity to rebut that tomorrow by noon. keep in mind the senate trial will start in earnest at 1:00 tomorrow. as we speak in the last 40 minutes or so, six of the seven impeachment managers have walked over from the house. they are in the senate chamber right now and we are not allowed then so we can't show you any video. we expected that some point the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to release his resolution though dictate the framework for the trail. we are expecting the following. 12 hours on wednesday, 12 hours on thursday for the prosecution. the house managers to present their case. we would expect the defense, the president's legal defense team, to expand on that on friday and saturday. i

congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest. chad? >> good afternoon.started at about 1:00.

b2 chad pergram joining us live from capitol hill. ey the never ending update of what this is going to look like today and into next week if democrats have their way, chad. we are not the only ones who aren't hearing chad. apparently no one is hearing chad. as we wait for chad to get set up on the hill, the big conversation this morning has been whether or not the vote to not have witnesses and not have further documents could be one gateway as we've been saying then after that there is the opening that perhaps the debate goes on on the democrats side, drawing it out with more arguments, more proposals, maybe it's next week. >> bret: in the meantime, all this new information keeps on coming out today, just moments ago, "the new york times" had an article posted online that says trump told bolton to help his ukraine pressure campaign, goes on to say that two months before the call in july between president trump and zelensky, bolton alleges that there was a meeting in which the president gave the instructions to john bolton during an ov

chad pergram following it closely. chad? >> jay sekulow, one of the president's attorneys, he just said in the recess that tomorrow when the defense gets the case that this will be kind of like a trailer, coming attractions. we expect a more abbreviated sessions saturday to tee up what will happen as the defense presents its case. a couple things here that have been resounded. republican senators have repeatedly said they're beating a dead horse. here's something from rick scott, republican senator from florida. he said we saw the sergeant at arms talk out a protest for a -- for a protester that barged in. maybe i'll do the same thing. we heard the same thing for three days in a row. the other looming issue, later next weeks, thursday or friday, is the issue of witnesses. by our count, there's been -- this was yesterday -- about 226 mention of the bidens. now, lindsey graham, the chair of the judiciary committee indicated this morning he would not vote to call the bidens. he thinks that's an issue that should be addressed el

chad pergram restarts the hour now live on the hill. chad, we heard sylvia garcia say it wasn't about corruption, it was about the election. she wentac

the story begins as we check in with congressional correspondent chad pergram who lays out the next step. but chad knows better than anybody. hi, chad. >> martha, thank you. the last of the house formally took the day, voted to send the articles of impeachment across to the senate and also named the seven impeachment managers. they will prosecute the case. it's up to the senate. here is how pelosi making the speech to convict the president of united states. >> this president will be held accountable, no one is above the law. and no future president should ever entertain the idea that article one, and make it article two, that he can do whatever it wants. >> the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is saying where the senate is where the house's hot impeachment coffee will cool. >> we will pledge to rise above the petty factionalism and do justice for institutions, for the state, and for the nation. >> we will go back over to the senate, the first step in the impeachment trial. mike stenger who is the senate sergeant-at-arms will read this from senate impeachment rule one. all persons a

fox news's chad pergram joins us with more. chad, great to see you. reporter: likewise.omorrow is a big day on capitol hill as pelosi meets with democrats to conduct the next steps on impeachment. they have to have a short vote to send the articles to the senate. that could come wednesday or thursday. they pack them in cherry boxes march them across to the capitol and the senate. we will learn the name of impeachment managers, prosecuting house's case in the senate. they must approve a resolution to receive the articles. if the house votes tuesday or wednesday the senate could start the trial thursday this weeks. the first day is ceremonial. the meat of the trial may not start until next week. now there are 26 rules governing impeachment in the senate. if the senate does anything outside of that realm it must take a vote. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he has 51 votes to handle the things the way they did for president clinton trial. senators must sit at their desk 24 hours total to hear the house managers present their case. 24 hours for the president's def

chad pergram on capitol hill with more. chad? reporter: good evening elisabeth.e have two emerging items regarding impeachment in the past couple minutes four committees investigating impeachment for the house of representatives announce they will send over additional information to the senate as part of the impeachment inquire rye. we're sifting through some of those documents much the other news flash, the house speaker said at 10:00 eastern time she will roll out the impeachment managers prosecutors who present the case to the senate. we'll find out who they are tomorrow at 10:00. probably sometime early in the afternoon, a short debate a vote to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. probably late in the day tomorrow they will actually walk the articles of impeachment over to the senate. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell indicates they will have the opening day, kind of bookkeeping, house keeping to start the senate trial where they present the articles of impeachment to the senate on thursday morning. the big lingering question on capitol h

. >>> 2 different interpretations, our correspondent chad pergram there was also a clash on substance, jay sekulow one of the president's attorneys. >> are we're here because of afinphone call, or are we're hee before this great body because since presidents that been sworn to office there was a desire to see him removed. sno. >> that will begin to take center stage as opposed to procedural stuff. >> that is the argument that many of these republicans in house of representative in senate and now president's legal defense team have been making. i have been struck by in listening to first arguments. we're just kind of debating frahm work of how -- game work of how argument go, president's defense team seems to be under cutting the credibility of the impeachment managers. saying they had in it for president, under cutting what adam schiff may or may not have known, there is a lot of that going on, i am struck by, last night, president anointed high would have -- announced he coild have 7 other members of his defense team. and they will have a formal role in well of senate, they will not

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congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest. chad? >> good afternoon. they started at about 1:00. adam schiff consumes most of the time here this afternoon, about two hours. jason crow, democrat on the floor, right now. here's something that adam schiff said. he said "we cannot allow the president to withhold aid from an ally or illicit aid in election campaign, i hope we don't have to get over it." here's chuck schumer as he continues to push for documents. >> i was so impressed with the house manager's case. it was on the back, and answer the questions, it talked about why we had witnesses and documents. the president's lawyers never answer the question of witnesses and documents. >> republicans continue to focus on the impeachment managers, question it the houses process but lindsey graham doesn't think the president should cooperate at all. >> the house managers were proposing yesterday to just destroy the institution of the presidency as we know it. if i was the president i wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all. i wouldn't give them the time of

about corruption in regards to hunter biden, we go to the fox news congressional correspondent chad pergramod evening once again. >> well, this was the first full day of the president's defense team presenting their arguments here. they focused a lot on the biden's and burisma, it is because the house impeachment managers cited the bidens 400 times. let us listen to pam bondi. to speak of post ran a story about it. it said the appointment of the vice president son to a ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst." >> this was a key strategy of the president's defense, questioning whether hunter biden was involved with ukraine at all. they claim the president trump only got interested in the bidens after pulling. showing that joe biden could defeat president trump. they did not realize that "breitbart was -- the conspiracy theory that bondi had was refuted. "the new york times" calls it debunked. democrats say if there is going to be a poll by some republicans in the senate to call the bidens, they had better vote to call john bolton, the former national security advisor

house democrat trying to convince the senate that president abused his power while in office, chad pergramg us. he has been following every tick of this every second and managing to stay away somehow. you can drink coffee, unlike them. reporter: we can. focus today by the house democrat i think peach type of managers has been on -- impeachment manager has been on abuse of power. a lot of discussion on bidens, whether or not president was interested in the bidens. potential nexis between president, russia and ukraine. 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. s

his six hours right now, so they can do it for 18 more hours over the course of 3 days spirit chad pergramhe does not sleep and he's back with us now. >> [laughs] i certainly didn't sleep last night. it was a late night. probably not as late tonight. we have just learned adam schiff and the democrats are going through their last tranche of arguments. they will go about to go hours and change. we are thinking, maybe 9:45 p.m., 10:00 p.m. will be at four today. they ended at 1:50 a.m. early this morning. i was standing here at 2:00 a.m. when some of the managers walked by. there was a pretty bad kerfuffle about 12:40 a.m. this morning. this was over some language that jerry nadler used about the senator's spirit something that was said by pat cipollone who directed some very personal comments towards jerry nadler and john roberts. here is josh hawley, he's a republican senator and he clerked for chief justice roberts. >> that does extraordinary thing to say on the floor in the middle of the trial. i can tell you there was open gasping on the senate floor when he was saying those things. it w

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then the president's defense team they take over, fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram onad is live from capitol hill. chad was going on? well the senate has just adjourned for the day and they'll come back tomorrow there are two more days for the prosecutors, the house managers to present their case. sixteen hours in the 16 hour i'm sorry eight hour crunches. and the defense, the president's legal defense is on saturday. it's very interesting to be in the senate chamber at different points today and see some senators being very diligent with stacks of papers and notebooks and scribbling notes. and then you had others there sitting for a long time and it's a lot of information to digest. some are kind of meandering around the back of the chamber listening. i should note that when they would play video or put up a slide, that the senator's attention, they would focus on that, that something the democrats are doing a lot of. but some like doug jones from alabama was leaning into the back wall if you are ducking and now the cloakroom. the biggest thing on capitol hill is the

chad pergram has that part of the story. good evening.st up, john roberts inserted himself into the debate. we talked about that earlier after midnight last night, cautioning both sides about their language on the floor. >> we saw nothing like this and the 1999 trial with president clinton. chief justice william rehnquist presided. he liked to keep behind the scenes and john roberts is like that. he interjected himself last night after some remarks by jerry nadler in particular, they democrat from new york. let's take a lesson. >> any senator who votes against ambassador bolton's testimony shows that he or she wants to be part of the cover-up. >> he accused you of a cover-up. the only person who should be embarrassed is you. >> i do think those addressing the senate should remember where they are. >> josh ali is from missouri who clerked for john roberts. he says the admonition was out of character for roberts. >> that statement is a very extraordinary thing. i've never heard him deliver an admonishment like that. he chooses his words ver

let's bring in chad pergram with more on this. chad? >> that's key as we say on capitol hill. it's about the math. if mitch mcconnell didn't have everyone in his caucus, he has 53. could go to 51. he didn't have everybody on board, that is important. and i noted that cory gardner put out a vague statement as the ba

chad pergram reporting live from capitol hill with what we can expect today. ad. >> hi, there, just in the past couple of moments we've seen the house impeachment managers themselves walking over to the senate, sylvia garcia from texas, hakeem jeffries from new york, jerry nadler, chair of the judiciary committee. that's happened in just the past couple minutes here. let me set the scene. at 1:00, they will actually started we expect them then to swear in jim inhofe, republican from oklahoma, he was not there due to a family emergency so they will swear him in as a juror. a little later they will actually hear the proposal of mitch mcconnell, the senate senate majority leader last night. this is the four-page, it's pretty terse as to what the rules of the road would be if the senate in fact agrees to this. this is what they are going to be debating today. it's interesting the senators don't debate this, the house impeachment managers debate this and the president's trial lawyers debate it. two hours are set for that proposal and chuck schumer, sent a majority l

. >> harris: all right, chad pergram, thank you. the trial, does this just get dismissed? >> brian: no, it just looks like you saw senator alexanders, susan collins, senator blunt, they all have indicated that they want to see some type of trial. >> harris: and mitt romney else also. >> brian: yes, it seems so unsurprising, i left him out. i actually think it is better for both sides if they don't dismiss it, because we already heard what speaker pelosi is going to say. policies going to say cover up right away. if you don't have witnesses, cover-up, that will be the theme. a lot of the republicans in these battleground states are going to say, well, you did not really have a trial. now, if they have some semblance of a trial, it helps, i think a lot of these top fights. >> harris: when you see hakeem jeffries right off the top they're talking about fairness, and getting to that, how does that play against what happened in the house when republicans were banging the drum, give us our full list of witnesses, or at least more than that just a couple. >> dagen: right, the int

fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram has all of this from capitol hill. >> good evening. guts of the trial. you get through the opening arguments, the presentation that the house managers will make. they get to this question of witnesses and documents. around that point is when they will consider the kill switch. it says on page three that other motions are in play according to the senates impeachment rules. there is some support for that, once they get to that point not to have an up or down vote by some senators, may be to exonerate the president. what we don't think will happen is that early on and the process, tomorrow or wednesday. there is nothing that would provide for that. that would have to happen after they answer this question about witnesses and documents. let history be our guide. in 1999 with president clinton's trial, there was a motion to dismiss by the legendary west virginia senator. the senate voted 56-44 to reject his motion to dismiss. all democratic senators voted to dismiss. that is russ feingold who was the democratic senator from wisconsin. we do

let's bring in chad pergram with more on this. chad? >> that's key as we say on capitol hill. it's about the math. if mitch mcconnell didn't have everyone in his caucus, he has 53. could go to 51. he didn't have everybody on board, that is important. and i noted that cory gardner put out a vague statement as the debate began there. he said well, this follows the clinton model. he didn't say he supported it. cory gardner faces a tough re-election campaign in colorado. he's a republican from colorado here. what we'll have when they come back at 3:05 or 3:06, if they're going to debate the schumer proposal, an eight-page proposal put together by chuck schumer asking for documents and other communications from the white house. mentioneds mick mulvaney and asks for communications from joe biden as well. that will be important. the term of art that you'll hear a lot later this afternoon and then tonight is a motion to table. what does that mean from a parliamentary perspective? a motion to table is just that you try to set aside or kill a given proposal. so what chuck schumer will d

moments and have more from the couch but first let's go to fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram life on capitol hill. >> a lot going on in the past hour here and capitol hill. the white house has submitted its trial brief for the impeachment trial and i will read a couple of items that have just come in. the brief from the white house says "that the house of representatives was determined to overturn the 2016 election and interfere in the 2020 election and the white house is arguing here that the impeachment articles are structurally deficient." we will get a rebuttal from the house impeachment manager before they get to the trial tomorrow, that's due before 1:00 tomorrow afternoon and you can bet that the impeachment managers will start to sifter this document from the white house. they just finished in the past few minutes, a walk-through on the senate floor of the impeachment of managers walked again from the outside of the capital over to the senate and this is a reconfigured senate chamber for a trial. it's no longer a legislative assembly for the next couple of weeks as th

chad pergram with more on that and capitol hill. >> they've been through 127 questions total, excuse me, 127 questions total end of 27 questions today. they will probably take a dinner break around six or 6:30 and then wrap up around 11:00 tonight. there was an interesting exchange a few minutes ago where chuck schumer posed a question to both sides saying, did the administration comply and provide witnesses and documents to the administration? there was also a question by republican senator susan collins of maine where she asked if it was ever appropriate for the president of the united states to engage a government to investigate a foreign rival. excuse me, a political rival. at the end of the session, before they took the recess, lisa murkowski was seen sitting in the senate chamber with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. again, this is why we don't know how this so-called gateway vote tomorrow night could go. here's what will happen tomorrow. we'll wrap up the q&a today and then tomorrow they will come in and have four hours of debate on actually finishing this. then the

chad pergram. we will follow the market on fox business tomorrow. in the meantime, here comes "the five." ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone, i am dana moreno along with juan williams, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. 5:00 in new york city. capitol hill bracing for an impeachment battle in the senate while democrats are facing growing criticism for how they have handled the process up until now. earlier today, impeachment articles were read aloud by the democratic managers and the supreme court justice as jurors. of those all formalities. then there is the partisan battle. nancy pelosi and her impeachment managers being blasted by republicans for handing out souvenir impeachment pens during what was supposed to be a somber ceremony yesterday. and adam schiff is under fire for dumping documents from rudy giuliani associate lev parnas after the house wrapped its investigations. the senators of the g.o.p. are pushing back. >> they've given us two very weak articles of impeachment. our job is to look at what they bought us and if it rises to the level of impeac