just today, dianne feinstein, joe manchin, chris coons, even the far left richard blumenthal are now all questioning the speakers decision-making. >> but it seems just like yesterday, doesn't it, that the queen could do no wrong? >> the american people happen to be on the side of speaker pelosi, that's the great leverage that she has here. >> nancy pelosi has been a light worker in dark times. >> i do think she has had a lit just brilliantly. >> she has been pitch-perfect. and this is her flock, these democrats. >> how she is leaving us in the impeachment inquiry is a perfect example of what a great leader she is. >> her whole career is leading to these two weeks, that puts her soundly in history books. >> laura: history books? may be the history of failure, mr. -- meanwhile americans are seen through the bogus investigations, and you've got to check these out. they have trumpet beating most of his rivals, even in virginia.

your reaction to this one lone democrat's, chris coons stepping up?s part of the president's maximum pressure campaign that at least they turned off the terror money spigot? >> there has been a real impact on the iranian economy and resources available to the terrible iranian regime as a result of the maximum pressure campaign. >> that is success? >> that is a positive. liz: won't say success. only says it's a positive. your reaction to that? >> well i hope this is only the first canary. i hope all of them will see it as it is and use judgment and morality not only to call the regime's out in iran but to do everything to bring it down. liz: now they seem out of touch. ambassador, thank you so much. great to see you. >> pleasure. thank you. liz: come back soon. next up the controversy over a former obama justice department official now selected to oversee the fbi's reforms of its deeply flawed fisa surveillance process that was used to spy on the trump campaign. is the wrong guy for the job? the debate next. wherever we want to go, autosave your way th

i'll get reaction from key members of congress including democratic senator chris coons and our kponts and analysts are also standing by. first let's bring in senior national correspondent alex marquardt. 176 people are dead and u.s. officials believe iran is responsible. >> it's not just u.s. officials, the united kingdom and canada as well. prime minister boris johnson says there's a body of information that this flight was shot down by an iranian surface-to-air missile system. officials are saying after analyzing satellite and radar data, it was a russian-made system, adding this could have been a mistake by iran. of course, this comes at a very tense time. the iranianians are still disputing they brought down this plane. in the wake of the ukrainian plane crash, u.s. and allied officials tell cnn iran is believed to have brought it down with russian-made surface-to-air missiles killing all 176 people on board. most of the victims from iran, ukraine and canada. >> we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that th

joining us here in washington, delaware senator chris coons, a top democrat on the foreign ryelations. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks, chris. great to be with you again. chris: ever since president trump took out general soleimani a week ago, democrats have been calling it a major escalation and been warning of dire consequences but after a pretty ineffect all missile strike, iran's foreign minister. >> -- zarif said, that iran and took concluded proportionate measures in self-defense. >> iran appears to be standings down and good for all parties concerned and a good thing for the world. chris: isn't it possible president trump's action or decision worked, that it took out one of other worst enemies in the middle east and? >> it took out one of the worst enemies in the middle east. let's start there. no one will mourn the passing of qassem soleimani. the quds force he commanded was responsible for deaths of hundreds of civilians in iraq and no one is mourning his passing but the largest question does it make us safer, does it make our portion more stable and does it make

. >> chris: we will ask democratic senator chris coons about that effort in congress to limit military actions against iran. plus, how speaker pelosi announces she will send the articles of impeachment to the senate this week. will ask our sunday panel what the impeachment trial will look like. all right now on fox news sund sunday. and hello look at it from fox news in washington. the fallout from president trump's showdown with iran continues to be felt the middle east. thousands of iranians protest as tehran now admits shooting down. the president tells fox news the top iranian general he killed was planning attacks against four u.s. embassies. and senate democrats pushed for a vote to limit the president's military powers while also preparing to deal with the articles of impeachment. the house will send over this week. in a moment, we will discuss the u.s. face-off with national security advisor robert o'brien but first, let's bring in kevin corke with the latest from the white house. >> calls for change echoing across tehran this weekend, those demands however garnered the attenti

joining us now is senator chris coons, democrat from delaware. senator coons is here.nk you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. it's been a very long day here in the senate. >> it has been. i can tell you watching from outside how long of a day it's been. do you actually have any sense of how long this part of the trial is going to continue? do you have any guidance in terms of taking the full 24 hours versus wrapping up with less than that much time expired on the democrats -- excuse me, on the president's counsel side? >> well, the president's attorneys will resume making their case tomorrow at 1:00. how late into the night they'll go, we don't really know. i was surprised at some of the attacks they took today. their last point literally arguing that obama should have been impeached, so it was a pretty broad tour of a wide range of legal, constitutional and political arguments, some of which were predictable, some of which, like that last one, i really did not see coming. >> the sort of apex argument at the end of the night from professor dershowitz was

senators chuck schumer, chris coons, mike braun, ten scott john barrasso made remarks. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. it's been an interesting and long day of questions. part of what i think is constructive about this and makes me hopeful the american people are following it is that it has provided a number of opportunities for the house managers to answer some questions addressed -- address some issues and revisit core pieces of the case, in particular with regard to subpoenas and to the president's like it obstruct your refusal to produce any witnesses, any documents. i'm particularly struck at one recent development that hasn't been highlighted or discussed today, and that's the general john kelly who is the former chief of staff to president trump has publicly said he believes john bolton. i'd like folks to focus on what that means. what that means is that knowing former national security adviser john bolton is alleged to have said president trump did order him to withhold aid to ukraine in order to try and leverage a baseless investigatio

joining me is senator chris coons of delaware.to have you on the program. >> thank you, great to have you back. >> let's start right here with this question about whether this plan was imminent. i know we're still waiting for an all senators briefing coming up this week about the background here. your colleague mark warner told chuck todd this morning he does potentially buy into the idea there was a threat, but he's not convinced whether it was imminent. what's your view about the legality of what the administration did here and whether you have any questions about that. >> of course, i have questions about what the administration's strategy is going forward and whether the intelligence that they will be presenting to us this week justifies this strike against general soleimani. first, let's be clear. no american should mourn the passing of this iranian b military leader who has been directly involved in planning and carrying out dozens, if not hundreds of attacks across the region b that have killed thousands over many years. th

we are joined by senator chris coons, democrat of delaware. senator, thank you for spending a few more minutes of your already long day into night with us. i have to ask you, do you have a, perhaps, silent focus group of republicans who you look over to during arguments like tonight? talk to us about attentiveness. talk about whether or not you see so much as one mind being changed during something like that, a summation by adam schiff. >> i do, brian, have a number of republican colleagues who i'm watching closely. it was during closing arguments during the kavanaugh confirmation process that i was looking at my friend and senator jeff flake realizing how deeply troubled he was by the testimony of the woman who was accusing now justice kavanaugh of misdeeds, dr. christine blasey ford. these are long days. the arc of the presentation by the house managers is quite long. the amount of evidence, both witness testimony and the documents, texts is fairly heavy. so in the course of the day you can see folks' attention wander and their engagement co

it's interesting because i'm struck by chris coons who was at some type of event -- >> delaware. >> fromelaware. who's talking about the polarization. and he in part said i think in history he's going to look back on the diversity we have and see that as part of the problem in terms of getting together. don't know how exactly he was characterizing that. it's an odd thing to say, but i think there is -- you know, part of what we see is there is when you have people from different backgrounds and life experiences, people aren't going to agree on what's happening today. >> i think, though, we've had identity politics this whole time. >> of course, yes. >> it's just been white identity politics. and that's what we've been playing. we've been centering whiteness and maleness as essentially the only thing we cared about in politics. and this moment we're saying, okay, we're going to open up the doors a bit and talk about your experience is like as a woman, what policies people are putting forward that impact your experience whether or not you're rich or poor or black or white. and i think now

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joined now by chris coons of delaware. nice to see you sir. >> thank you. >> i want to get you to respond to mitch mcconnell from this afternoon, and it's this idea on the issue of witnesses, here's his statement, you're going to hear it in your ear, and i want to get you to react to it on the other side. >> some in your conference have suggested if democrats are calling witnesses like john bolton, they may also want to call witnesses such as hunter biden. would you support calling hunter biden? >> i think we'll be dealing with the witness issue at the appropriate time into the trial. i think it's certainly appropriate to point out that both sides would want to call witnesses that they wanted to hear from. when you get to that issue. i can't imagine that only the witnesses that are democratic colleagues would want to call would be called. >> senator coons, what's your best understanding of how this is going to work. >> i'm less -- i'm a bit more confused now than i was before senator mcconnell spoke. >> there's a tension b

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one of the people who will be in the room again today, senator chris coons of delaware.ight-eyed and bushy tailed. thank you so much for being with us this morning. look, democrats went 0 for 13 yesterday, i believe it was? didn't win on a single vote. so what do you think you got out of that first day? >> yesterday was a 12-hour day in which the entire senate sat and fought over what the rules will be that will govern this impeachment trial and whether we'll get skaes access to any o documents or witnesses that would make this a fair trial. strikingly, on every vote, except one, every single republican, except one, voted to keep the rules that mitch mcconnell moved forward. and was only on one minor vote that one republican voted against the majority. so i'll put it this way. in virtual lockstep throughout the entire night, the republican majority said we don't want to see the documents that are critical to understanding what president trump did. whether he did or did not do the things he's charged with. and we don't want to hear from critical witnesses that president t

and now joining me is democratic senator chris coons from delaware.peachment documents over to the senate, and we don't know if the evidence from lev parnas is going to be included in the impeachment trial and should it? >> well, jake, thank you for the chance to be on. and all of us no e that trials typically have witnesses and evidence. and particularly where one of the core issues in the trial, president trump's campaign to block congress' legitimate investigation is part of what is at issue. i remind you that the first article is obstruction of congress and then abuse of power, and that is the actions to compel or the shakedown the ukraine to investigate without foundation his leading democratic rival joe biden and second, the response that he blocked the closest advisers and other officials from testifying. so there should be more evidence available at trial, and the latest details from lev parnas are pretty strike and reminder of how it might add to the weight of the impeachment articles. >> your colleague susan collins, republican from maine sa

chris coons says time to get it on. it makes them look back.se stefanik who is a congresswoman from upstate new york says, you know what? nancy pelosi was saying come on, we have got to vote for this. it's urgent. we have got to do the impeachment. of course now not so urgent. take a look at this. watch. here she is last night with sean. >> pelosi has been exposed and the impeachment dam is breaking. we need to keep the pressure up. because she has no authority over the senate. so it is apply you a accommodatioyou aaccommodation s after urging the american people take this vote on arbitrary schedule. the real reason why she is holding back she doesn't want to expose the coordination that we know happened between adam schiff and the whistleblower. brian: we know. this nothing gets done until it's done. nobody understands exactly what nancy pelosi is up to. and everything is on hold. so i thought originally she thought there was going to be more evidence to come out that was going to bolster the case. i think we saw some of that nobody cared. it'

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thank you so much, senator chris coons. we greatly appreciate it.geist, thank god that donald trump helped us avoid world war 6. world war 5 was enough with all the rationing of margarine and the number of hours or children could play fortnite. i don't think we could have handled yet another world war. ? why don't we go back to the book. by the way, jonathan lemire, help us out here. why does a president -- like world war 6, explain -- explain it to us. what exactly -- >> good luck, jonathan. >> -- were world wars 5, 4 and 3? i can't go back to the book until we clear this up. >> asking me to interpret what the president meant is always a tough proposition. i think he's trying to suggest if he had kept john bolton on and, remember, bolton was only dismissed a few months ago. >> right. >> we would have had four more world wars since then. this would have been a constant state of frequent and accelerated conflict so i guess the president is suggesting that we should be grateful for his judgment in dismissing john bolton from his post as national secur

mcconnell and trump want to ignore sort of intent chris coons is more like a cover-up that a fair trialike the democrats have been doing since september this has been a complete circus and an optics battle and they are expecting now less in the senate and mitch mcconnell is trying to have the process work fairly with both sides which can't be said for how the house managed the inquiry so it is ridiculous the democrats are objecting. what mitch mcconnell is doing is wanting to have the resolutions go illogical phases, the first phase would be each side has 24 hours over the course of two days to present opening statements which is the same amount of time as the clinton impeachment, rather than over three days over two days into the clinton impeachment they didn't use all their time. this isn't a complex case for either side. they can certainly do that. shannon: so the time allotted for both sides is the same but the length of days has been reduced to wouldn't that since democrats want to call additional witnesses which remains to be seen allow them to get their witnesses sooner? >> in th

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i'll get reaction from key members of congress including democratic senator chris coons and our kpontsre also standing by. first let's bring in senior national correspondent alex marquardt. 176 people are dead and u.s. officials believe iran is responsible. >> it's not just u.s. officials, the united kingdom and canada as well. prime minister boris johnson says there's a body of information that this flight was shot down by an iranian

first, chris coons, a member of the senate judiciary committee who is on a very short break.e has a couple of minutes. thank you for being here tonig tonight. a lot of folks watching this feel like there is nothing new really that they have heard in the chamber today. is that your impression? are they missing something? >> martha, the house manager spent six hours laying out a very detailed presentation. i will tell you that i generally followed the testimony in front of the committee and the house judiciary committee. today the house managers put it together in order and made a very thorough, detailed, and fact-based case. first about the allegations of president trump's so-called perfect phone call with president zelensky on july 25th. and then the ways in which rudy giuliani, his personal attorney worked with ambassador sondland to try and influence ukraine and try and get some personal benefit from withholding military aid. just about an hour ago the argument about obstruction of congress started. there is a lot of detail. i haven't heard at all in this format before. i a

here is chris coons. >> the american people are following the has provided a number of opportunities to the house managers and answer questions and address issues and revisit core pieces of the case in particular with regards to subpoenas and to the president obstruction refusal to produce any witnesses and any documents. i particular struck at one recent development that has not been highlighted or discussed today. that is a general john kelly who is a former chief of staff to president trump that has probably said he believes john bolton. i would like folks to focus on what that means. what that means is knowing former national security advisor john bolton is alleged to say president trump did order him to withhold aid to ukraine in order to try and leverage a baseless investigation by ukraine. this means his former chief of staff was in the room and witness behavior by the president that would strongly support the conclusion that that is the sort of thing president trump does. >> republicans say that does not matter and it does not reach the level of high crime and misdemeanor. >>

. >> we saw senator chris coons walking by. very briefly, do you know how late you're expecting it to go tonight? >> the senators are buckling in for a late night. that's why they brought in pizza. if they thought they were going to be done, they would all go home. there could be a deal ultimately to push off the proceedings until tomorrow. that would require a bipartisan agreement. what i'm hearing is that mitch mcconnell wants to finish things up, finish up the whole trial potentially in a week and a half. if you were to delay further votes until tomorrow, that would only delay proceedings another day potentially. uncertain if they get to that point but senators can get worn out. maybe they'll speed up votes tonight, that's possible, or maybe push off the rest till tomorrow. we'll have to see how the floor proceedings play out. >> we'll be back 11 to midnight no matter what happens. we're expecting the senators back any moment now. joining us in the meantime cnn political analyst carl bernstein. cnn chief legal analyst jeff t

joining us chris coons, senator coons, any insight on how you think senator alexander might vote? >> i lot of us were trying to discern from his body language, the questions he asked or from sidling up and chatting with him during the breaks how he might go this evening and i'm as much in the dark as you are. this is going to be a very close vote. what is striking to me, first, is the answer that we got to a question that was asked earlier this evening which was -- and this was a question i asked. if the president were to call witnesses which of his witnesses would testify directly to what the president said, what the president did around withholding aid from ukraine that might exonerate him? the answer, of course, was to change the subject. and to talk about folks who couldn't directly testify. to what the president did. because frankly i think there are no witnesses who the administration can put on who will give sworn testimony to clear the president or they would have done that. it's striking. and so instead what the white house counsel repeated again tonight was a defense tha

chris coons will be on the show to discuss how the president skirted congress to authorize the airstrikes in iraq. and potential procedure going forward. and maxine waters, chair of the financial services committee, will be live to discuss the latest in the impeachment standoff. that's all coming up later at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on ms nbc. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. so i know there's a big need for gas-x maximum strength. it works fast. relieving pressure, bloating, and discomfort before you know it. so no one needs to know you've got gas. gas-x so no one needs to know you've got gas. the good news? our comfort lasts all day. the bad news? so does his energy. depend® fit-flex underwear offers your best comfort and protection guaranteed. because, perfect or not, life's better when you're in it. be there with depend®. >>> as the congress and senate comes back, there needs to be the question raised and the demand for answers. on why this president ordered the death of general soleimani. no one argued he was responsible for deaths, blood on his hands, but the question w

democratic -- with the democrats have said over the past few days but that was democratic senator chris coonse show saying house democrats have proven their case against the president over the past three days while they have made their arguments on the floor of the senate. tomorrow, the white house will have its turn. here now with a review, white house prince will deputy press secretary. good to have you here. i do want to talk to you about the defense and what's coming and all of that, but first i do want to ask a question about this lev parnas story that has come up and get you the reaction from the white house. the beginning of the story with ray jerome out alwith rachel maddow. >> part of it to get out of the post is because she's in the way of the effort to get the government of ukraine to announce investigations with joe biden? >> that's the only motivation. >> that's completely ridiculous. lev parnas doing a media tour, going to the places like "new york times," msnbc, like cnn, and now we know through leaked audio and video that these outlets have one desire and when desire only and

. >> senator chris coons, democrat of delaware, thanks for being with us tonight, sir. appreciate you taking the time. >> thank you, rachel. >>> as i mention the, there was a little bit of a surprising appearance in the middle of today's proceedings from vice president mike pence's office. in any impeachment, the daily doings of the vice president suddenly take on a different cast because whatever is going on with the impeachment trial of the president, the question, really, is at core whether the president will be removed from office and his vice president will be elevated. hearing from vice president pence's office sort of out of the blue and on a surprising topic today put an interesting cast on his continuing role here and his continuing connections to the scandal as it continues to be unfolded. we're going to be speaking in just a moment with "washington post" reporter who was with mike pence covering his travels at a key moment in the scandal who has also been doing some intense reporting on what's likely to be happening next with republican senators as they consi

and also chris coons who is the democratic senator and one of the people who was calling for nancy pelosir those articles of impeachment. >> bret: all right, chris, we will tune in. check your local listings. have a good weekend. people around the world remembering the people killed in the plane crash in iran. we will speak with a former commercial airplane pilot that says she notices a possible clue in the wreckage. ♪ americans come to lendingtree.com to compare and save on loans, credit cards and more! but with the new lending tree app you can see your full financial health, monitor your credit score, see your cash flow and find out how you can cut your monthly bills. download it now to see how much you can save. >> bret: fox urgent now, heartbroken families demanding answers after a ukrainian jet crashes in iran, killing everyone on board. officials saying they believe the iranians may have shot down that airliner by mistake. just hours after the iranians lent won launched missiles in iran. they denied downing the plane. an emotional scene at the airport near kiev. a member of one of t

senator chris coons joins year on the foreign policy front. it, and what are the u.s. options against iran? >> andrea, happy new year to you. and let's hope that 2020 is better for all of us than 2019, but it certainly dawns with two foreign policy crises facing president trump and our nation, in north korea and in iraq because of repeated attacks by iranian-backed militias. look, i do support the president taking action against iranian militias following the death of an american contractor and the wounding of four american troops, and secretary esper, who was on earlier in your show, certainly has the responsibility to protect our thousands of troops that are scattered throughout the region. but i think what's going on here is that president trump is seeing the limitations, or i'd say even the failures, of his personal approach to international diplomacy. he thought he could charm kim jong-un in north korea into giving up his nuclear weapons, and he thought he could isolate iran. and in both cases, he abandoned traditional diplomacy. he aband

>> democrat democrat senator chris coons offered this on twitter today, reading president trump's stance with the iranian people as a first step to iranians. i encourage donald trump to lift the unconstitutional muslim ban which imposes a blanket ban on iranians entering the u.s. hashtag no ban act. >> he can't launch offensive hostilities and then go to war. we cannot have a war with iran, that is something that my constituents overwhelmingly are against, they are continuing to pour in their emails and phone calls and correspondence to that effect. >> others are still questioning the administrations argument for taking out the top iranian general. >> the president justified it on imminent threat, yet, there was no specifics about an imminent threat. so, yes, i think he was trying to cover what he said, and it is certainly inconsistent with the secretary of defense. i think with our intelligence community. >> democrats are also questioning the president's claim that the top iranian general soleimani was seeking to take out up to four u.s. embassies. >> mike emanuel life for us on capitol

democrat doug jones, agnes king, joe marc manchin, chris coons, blumenthal all echoing finestein's yo you will at this matultimatum. adam smith recants call for pelosi to send impeachment to senate. look at this poll whopping 58% of americans think pelosi needs to send the articles over. due process and fundamental fairness. don't expect it tonight. pelosi still desperately dragging this on and on and president trump he is taking her to task. pretty gaining way a entertainis well. take a look. >> by the way did i nothing wrong. they don't noe what the hell is going on. in fact, it's so weak she doesn't want to put in the articles it's so weak. they are so pathetic they are so pathetic. >> sean: action revolved around the party's deranged psychosis besmirch hurt donald trump. that's all they have done for three years. nothing for me we you the people. all continuous nonstop never ending political stunt, lies, commerce conspiracy, slander, besmirchment, nonbinding unmeaningful wars enforcement. let me address all of you in the u.s. senate tonight all of you republican senators, you do n

senators dianne feinstein, joe manchin, jon tester, richard blumenthal, chris coons, and independentgus king who caucuses with the democrats are reportedly saying they are ready to proceed with a trial. so nancy pelosi, i will hand them over when i see what they are going to do. mitch mcconnell told her what they were going to do. >> jason: there is a reason why the constitution says the sole power rests. and sole is very, very clear. if they had a case, they would do it. i don't think mitch mcconnell will bring up the witnesses even though the president i think would like to see this long drawn out and getting some people testifying. but i have to tell you, it is to shame what they are doing, i think they made the stroke. they have a weak case. i don't think it serves the country well. it continues on. and nancy pelosi is about as pompous as i have ever seen her. >> harris: the longer this goes on, now there are different scenarios. i was reading that there was a thought that house republicans might go over and defend the president in the senate, senator mcconnell did not like that

joining us chris coons, senator coons, any insight on how you think senator alexander might vote? >> i lot of us were trying to discern from his body language, the questions he asked or from sidling up and chatting with him during the breaks how he might go this evening and i'm as much in the dark as you are. this is going to be a very close vote. what is striking to me, first, is the answer that we got to a question that was asked earlier this evening which was -- and this was a question i asked. if the president were to call witnesses which of his witnesses would testify directly to what the president said, what the president did around withholding aid from ukraine that might exonerate him? the answer, of course, was to change the subject. and to talk about folks who couldn't directly testify. to what the president did. because frankly i think there are no witnesses who the administration can put on who will give sworn testimony to clear the president or they would have done that. it's striking. and so instead what the white house counsel repeated again tonight was a defense tha

it's my understanding during the briefing, according to george will's reporting that senator chris coons multiple times asked whether would seek congressional approval to deal with iran if iran got a nuclear weapon. to deal with iran in a military way. they kept dodging the question. how important to you think it is to get that essentially on paper? >> i think it's incredibly important. and throughout the whole briefing, they were dismissive of congress. they in the end said they didn't have time to come back. we only had about eight senators ask questions. they said we don't have time, we're busy, about coming back to brief the rest of us or take questions from the rest of us. it was very dismissive and it's also arrogant to say a vote from congress, 16, 17 years ago, that vote now binds another generation and another generation to war in iraq. it was against saddam hussein, for goodness sakes. this is a completely different government. this is not even the iraqi government we're now fighting. it's iranian generals that happen to be in iraq. but here's the great irony of the iraq war, t

. >> thank you, senator chris coons, appreciate it, get some sleep. >> great to be with you. >> thankery much. >>> back with my experts here. we've got just a few seconds here before we get to anderson. final thoughts, give me yours, first. >> it's still a good road ahead and it's going to be interesting to see how it turns out. >> tomorrow is an easier day than it has been. they have to prove that there has been obstruction of congress. they have to prove the number zero exists and it's out there, zero documents, zero witnesses, they have not cooperated. it's a much easier road tomorrow. >> what do you think? >> adam schiff -- >> mr. bruni. >> adam schiff thanked them for all keeping an open mind. i think that was wishful thinking. >> that was pure flattery based on nothing in evidence so far. >> he's being extremely nice. what do you think? >> i agree that proving the obstruction case will be a much easier lift in part because trump is already going on tv and saying they don't have any documents because we haven't given them any documents. he's making the case for the connects at th

>> reporter: i was just speaking with senator chris coons from delaware.says he and other democrats are learning from some of the managers' presentations here. he said in particular it was the testimony from jennifer williams, the national security adviser to the vice president who had that dramatic testimony a couple months ago during the house proceedings. he said something was going on in the senate that day. he said even a lot of republican senators were paying attention to the video that were showing on capitol hill and talking to other senators as they were leaving their dinner break tonight. it's clear they are refreshed after a bit of a break. but they're also not really showing their cards, particularly mitt romney. he is pivotal here. he is not commented at all throughout the duration of this. >> thank you, mr. chief justice. >> we're getting back in. >> just so senators have an idea, we expect to go two to two and a half hours. i'll make a presentation. representati representative lofgren will make a presentation. as an encouraging voice told me

democratic leader haspoo-ppoo'd that, an idea floating around from the democrat senator from delaware, chris coonshappening right now, but, and i will underscore but, you could see if it gets down to where democrats think that they might lose the vote in that because this is all that everybody on capitol hill is talking about right now, is how much the bidens have been side and whether or not they will call witnesses lick that and if the democrats get to call any witnesses that they want, you could see maybe democrats because the door has been cracked open they go to mcconnell and say all right let's see where we are, who do you really want, who do we have. they horse trade around here all the time, and so even though this is a senate trial. >> hi, chad. trump 2020 campaign advisory board member katrina pierceon actually tweeted this out earlier today, a proverbs, 1817 coming from the niv version in a lawsuit the first to speak seems right until someone comes forward and cross-examines. with that said, what will trump' defense team, what will their communication strategy be? what points will they