jay sekulow said you heard the testimony of 13 witnesses. and the impression is meant to be given that maybe the people watching at home that they must have been in between errands for the senate trial and missed where those witnesses came before the senate to testify. there wasn't any live testimony before this body and i don't recall in that super secret basement bunker. i'll admit there was 100 members eligible maybe i missed one of you but i don't thank you were there for the live testimony in the house and then to cross-examine the witnesses in the house but that's not true either. and to call witnesses in his defense and chose not to do so. and talk about how the military aid was conditioned and then i would like to cross-examine the west point grad i don't believe that. or they could've called nick mulvaney and put him under oath and now predict what john bolton would say that we did not do that. so get it over with in the house. and where he gets to get witnesses which they have known all along that is deeply incriminating this presi

jay sekulow said you heard the testimony of 13 witnesses. and i think the impression is that maybe the people watching at home that they must have been in between errands while watching the senate trial and missed those 13 witnesses coming before the senate to testify. but of courseee there was no live testimony in this body or be for this body and i don't recall any of you in that supersecret basement bunker they were talking about. i will admit maybe i missed one of you but i don't thank you were there for live testimony in the house. and mr. jay sekulow says he was calling witnesses himself to cross examine but that's not true either because thein president was eligible to call witnesses in his defense of the judiciary committee and chose not to do so. bill taylor said he right after the president and talked about the military aid and i would really like to cross-examine vietnam vet west point grad because i don't believe him. we could call them and cross-examine them. or they could have called mick mulvaney c and put him under oath and l

were picking up on what jay sekulow said what do you think? he said i think the american people are ready to move on to other things. you can send us attacked the 202-7488903 this one to make sure you include where you are texting from and your name. surely from louisiana with this i'm glad it's over. the president will continue to make america great. nancy pelosi should resign as house speaker she's not going to support the president from here on out. they are both in leader in the house kevin mccarthy after the votes having a little fun on the speaker's part saying ripping up the articles of impeachment and saying acquitted for life. in middletown maryland to go to the independent line. this is jeff. go ahead. >> i've been watching this whole thing for three years and i've never seen such a blatant concerted effort going after president. they voted to impeach this president. this sham. i've never seen where you have the doj and fbi and everyone else go after this present the way they have. they need to be held accountable. we do not have a t

his remarks were followed by chuck schumer and the president's attorney, jay sekulow. >> good afternoon, everyone. some of you are probably wondering what is left to be said after listening to this for the last two or three weeks. i was rather -- i thought it best to wait until this is behind us before having a more open discussion with all of you about what we have just witnessed. let me start by saying i don't think any of you doubt that this was the most partisan exercise. we fully remember him spend numerous times as the speaker said roughly a year ago that you shouldn't go forward with an impeachment. i watched it very carefully over the years the leadership position overlapped and even before that, we were working together on the appropriation bills in the early days. i'm pretty sure she didn't want to do this but the fact that she was pulled in this direction against what appeared to be her political instincts a year ago underscores that this was -- having been dragged into something instinctively that she felt was a mistake that's why we have an abbreviated truncated job over in

jay sekulow said something interesting, the house investigates and the senate deliberates. he would rewrite our constitution with that argument. because the last time i checked the constitution it says the house has the sole power of impeachment and the senate shall try the impeachment not merely deliberate or think about it or wonder about it i know you are the greatest deliberative body in the world but not even you can deliberate in a trial without witnesses. but jay sekulow would rewrite the constitution your job is not to try the case but merely to deliberate. that is not what the founders had in mind by a long shot. now mr. philbin says none of these witnesses would have relevance of article to conceding they would have from article one. but that's not true either. imagine what you will see when you hear from the witnesses who ran a wimpy or imagine what you will see when you read the documents from omb and what you will see what they have covered up. what you will see is the motive for their complete obstruction of congress. when you see not the redacted e-mails, the

here is a look at the closing arguments from the president's defense team, starting with jay sekulow, the president's personal attorney. justice,ow: mr. chief majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, house managers, i want to join my colleagues in thanking you for your patience over these two weeks. i wanted to focus on one last point -- we believe we have established overwhelmingly that both articles of impeachment failed to allege impeachable offenses and that therefore both articles one and two must fail. campaign of impeachment that started from the very first day that the president was inaugurated was a partisan one and it should have -- never happen again. for three years this push for impeachment came straight from the president's opponents. when it finally reached a crescendo with this body, the united states senate was put in a terrible position. i want to take a look back. at -- on the screen is a washington post headline from 2017 -- the campaign to impeach president trump has begun. this was posted 19 minutes after he was sworn in. i also want to play a video

his remarks were followed by chuck schumer and the president's attorney, jay sekulow. >> good afternoon, everyone. some of you are probably wondering what is left to be saider

. >> jay sekulow getting questions. abuse of power and articles this evening, headline credit trump gets bittersweet with a surprise twist from an old photo and they right said white house aides and allies were caught off guard mid afternoon when republicans under mitt romney announced it would vote alongside democrats. to find the president guilty on one charge against him. a tweet from the republican leader, kevin mccarthy, the republican party is unified. that president trump will be acquitted. mitt is flat wrong on this. and he doesn't represent the views on any number of congress. >> obama, elaine on a republican line. >> i wanted to first of all thank you for having one of the unbiased news coverage of this that i haven't been able to find. it is really hard to find anybody so you can't tell they have a very strong bias one way or the other. i have listened and tried to tell if i could hear if you are cleaning a little to the left or the right and he couldn't tell. to me that is a sign of good reporting. also, i w

>> stephen: to which jay sekulow replied, "hey, look over here! shiny, shiny! pay no attention!ter ) there it goes! get it, boy, get it!" now-- ( cheers and applause ) now, apart from mcconnell's nutrageous rules, there's the senate rules, which are pretty strict when it comes to how the senators have to behave. for instance, they'll be forced to surrender their phones and sit in their chairs silently for the duration. they also won't even be allowed to talk at length to people nearby or walk on certain areas of the senate floor. ( as sergeant of arms ) "hear ye, hear ye. be it known the following areas of the senate floor are lava. ( laughter ) parts of the lobby are snakes." ( laughter ) now, the rules get weirder. according to florida senator and last thing you see before the chloroform kicks in, rick scott. ( laughter ) >> jon: whoa! >> stephen: oooh. >> jon: snakes in the grass. >> stephen: "your skull will make quite a trophy for father." ( laughter ) now-- totally believable-- scott told a reporter that senators can only drink water or milk during the impeachment trial. n

. >> one of the president's attorneys jay sekulow said that, the answer is elections, not impeachment. >> i don't agree with that. there is a time to impeach the president. and i don't think the framers thought of this as a three-year option and not a four-year option. but the important part the senator was saying is that you can, in good conscience, vote to acquit this president. i think that it's easy to forget that this is not a perfect impeachment. that the articles do have flaws in my view, particularly article ii. and when schiff says, will any of you rise to the occasion and vote against your party? the same question can be of the democrats. they didn't vote against bill clinton and accepted a narrow definition, the one i voted against in the clinton impeachment. they didn't show the bipartisanship. will they show bipartisanship on article 2 and said, article 1, we have an argument and issue here. but with article 2, this is not the way you impeach the american president. >> i want to bring in paula reid at the white house. you listened to white house defense there. the america

and he's up there lying to the solders about the fact that that happened and of course you have jay sekulow with his array of lies and then lastly you have ken starr who again back in the clinton days believe that lying about a sex act was important enough to impeach a president remove him but abuse of power by donald trump is not. for us should never. i don't believe we've ever had a president so corrupt an american history and it started with the solicitation of a. action interference back in 2016 i see ukraine as a as a continuation of that same scheme in fact the day after muller testified on the hill he was a bold and felt you know exonerated pick up the phone and began the scheme with ukraine so it's all the same criminal conduct that he's continued to engage in and frankly i agree with out i'm sure if i don't think it's going to stop will you give them. a b c b. i would say. wow from a legal perspective i understand his position i would give him an a from. just a general outcome perspective i would give him a c. or d. i felt that he did hear it so strictly to that d.o.j. policy that

. >> sean: from a legal point come i don't think jay sekulow, scif 17, could do a better job.showitz. >> this is the narrative now, the 11th hour when the media is freaking peak hysteria, two big lies the left perpetuate. the first one that schumer is saying, no witnesses, no documents, that is a lie. there were 18 witnesses in the house and query. over the course of the nine days of arguments and opening statements, we heard 192 clips of testimony from 13 witnesses in over 28,000 documents. were given in the house record to the senate so that is a lied there were no documents are no witnesses. and then second the next life perpetuating is somehow an acquittal doesn't mean vindication. and every legal sense, that means that a judge, a jury, or whoever is the arbiter here, which in this case and this instance is the senate. when they return a verdict of acquittal, that always means not guilty legally. it is a lie. you have the lighting left and then you have president trump on the right, promises made, promises kept, and it could not be more stark. >> they have light for three

the president's lawyer jay sekulow within the last 45 minutes saying this is a victory for the constitution. the president himself says he will address the nation tomorrow about this at about noon eastern time. liz: edward. thank you so much for your reporting. we know that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is really blasting nancy pelosi on the floor of the house. edward, we don't expect you to be a constitutional expert on this but there is also talk that kevin mccarthy is saying quote, he wants to get this off the books, maybe a push by the republicans to expunge, wipe the slate clean of impeachment. we know andrew jackson, his censure was expunged. i don't want to get all wonky in 1837. maybe we'll see that next. >> that is something we've heard grumblings about. what happens next is the elections. if the house flips, which under president bill clinton when the republicans impeached him the house in the next election ended up flipping from republican to democrat. if the house flips you may see a stronger push on that front to try to nullify the impeachment. there are grumblings relat

it's very upsetting to see pat cipollone and jay sekulow.mes out, that will be also something of a revelation. >> were you aware, lev, of pat cipollone being in any meetings other than the one bolton mentions according to "the new york times" article? >> absolutely. there are several that rudy told me. mulvaney was mostly there, and bolton was at some. pompeo was at some. but cipollone was at most of them when giuliani told me. >> you mentioned lindsey graham. what, if anything, did giuliani say about lindsey graham's role in removing the ambassador, and was he aware at the time of the larger plot of trying to get the biden probe at that time, before it was public? >> lindsey graham was, to my knowledge, giuliani told me his involvement was going back to at least december of '18 when he told me that one of his investigators, mark schwartz, had one of his operatives write some letters to lindsey that giuliani delivered talking about corruption in ukraine and certain people that were associated with it. giuliani asked m e to meet with that ind

jay sekulow. >> mr. chief justice, majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, senators, thank you for your patience over these two weeks. i want to focus on one last point if you believe we have established overwhelmingly both articles of impeachment failed to list impeachable offenses and therefore both articles one and two must fail. this entire campaign of impeachment that started from the very first day the president was inaugurated was partisan and it should never happen again. for three years this push for impeachment came straight from the president's opponents and when they finally arranged the crescendo with this body the united states senate into a horrible position. want to start by taking a look back on the screen of a graphic of a washington post headline january 20, 2017 the campaign to impeach president trump has begun this was posted 19 minutes after he was sworn in. i also want to play a video were members as early as january 15 before the president was sworn into office calli

that outcome has been -- had been all bullet -- but ctain l day, before president trump'sne att jay sekulowued against more wnls. >> you've heard from a lot of witnesses. the problem with their case, their position is, evenl with of nose witnesses, it doesn't prove up an impeople -- impeachable events. >> house member val demmings pointed out the senate has never heard an impeachment trial without witnesses. >> is this a fair trial? thout the ability to call witnesses and viewen doc, the answer is unequivocally. no >> "the new york times" revealed today that former secretary joht had more nmpings on which he could testify. he announced in may prepdent trum told him to call the ukrainn president and make sure he met with rudy ghoul january- giuliani to discuss investigations into the 016 presidential election and into his -- joe biden and his s hunter. >> the facts will come out. they will continue to come out and the question before you out in time for you to make a e complete and informed judgment as to the guilt or innocence of the president. reporter: today president trump denied the ror

what he said is that alan dershowitz, jay sekulow, jonathan turley, every single republican colleague, they weree all wrong and he and adam schiff and nancy pelosi and jerry nadler were all great. i mean, that w is a pretty big jump to stand over on that side of the room with those folks that we've been watching just destroy the constitution and shred due process and say, i think, mitch mcconnell, even people like mike lee, lindsey graham who you just had on, they are all wrong, i'm smarter than they are. and yes, he groveled towards president trump wanting to be secretary of state and got passed over and that was right after he went out and trashed president trump. this is just disgusting. i'm very, very sad for the people of utah. they deserve better. they had a great statesman and it's sad that now they replaced someone like hatch with what we saw in mitt romney today. >> laura: i think senator graham is right. i don't want to turn this entire thing, it's really not about romney. it's instructive, though, to remember these moments, where people were, where they voted, why they say

i see adam schiff there, i see jay sekulow there, so we see the two teams, but got to watch the chair in the middle. when the chief justice comes out, that's when this begins. while we're waiting and in these few moments here, alan fruman, the idea -- how embarrassing for the senate, the chief justice called them, you know, the -- whatever the superlative adjective was, but the best deliberative body in the world, and they weren't deliberative at all. they abused their own procedures. >> you hear republicans say that some of them say what the president did was wrong, some of them won't concede what the president did was wrong, afar as i'm concerned, what the president did was questionable. and if behavior is questionable, you need to examine it and need to examine it with the best evidence available. and the best evidence available in this case would have been live witnesses. >> and the idea that the house should have done it? >> well, i can't speak for the house, that's the other body, i can only speak for the senate. this is a trial, trials have witnesses. every impeachment trial th

. >> pat cipollone, jay sekulow, mr. philbin there. pam bondi, other members of the legal defense team tells you everything you need to know about the politics of the moment as we move on, the legal team being applauded as they walk into the east room. we assume the president of the united states is to soon follow. they get a front seat, the president's legal team, for this statement. >> john, i was going to say even though senate republicans are going to move on, they're not going to have retribution on mitt romney, they weren't happy about what he did yesterday. the white house legal team was not happy about what he did yesterday, and the reason is he explored the irrational -- well, we got the president. >> the president of the united states. here we go. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you very much, everybody. we've all been through a lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because it's been

managers wrapped up their closing arguments just around 3:00 eastern time, let's listen first to jay sekulow and then delete impeachment manager adam schiff of california. >> stand firm today, protect the constitution. stand firm, protect the will of the american people and our votes. i asked for this partisan impeachment come to an end. >> history will not be kind to donald trump. i think we all know that. you find that the house has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a quart of steel and for all of history. >> there are some republicans who want to wrap up the trial last friday night but senators insisted on having their say, just drags it out through state of the union tomorrow night. does the vote on wednesday stepped on mr. trump's message of tuesday night? when you talk to administration officials, they like how this worked out in the end but they believe this is oh one-two punch. gets to talk about his accomplishments in his agenda on tuesday night, and have an exaggeratioexoneration vote on . we don't know what the tally will be wednesday aft

prior to the vote, president trump's personal lawyer jay sekulow said there was no need to call witnesses>> this idea that they have not had witnesses, because that is the smokescreen, you have heard from a lot of witnesses. the problem with the case, the problem with their position is, even with all of those witnesses, it does not prove up and impeachable offense. the articles fail. the record that the managers told us was overwhelming and complete, mr. schiff went through every sentence of the articles of impeachment just a few days ago and said, prove, prove, proof. the problem is the with prove, prove, prove,, it is not an impeachable offense. amy: after the vote on witnesses, chuck schumer said the senate did not live up to its responsibility. >> to not allow a witness, a document. no witnesses, no document, in an impeachment trial is a perfidy, a grand tragedy, one of the worst tragedies that the senate has ever overcome. america will remember this day, unfortunately, where the senate did not live up to its respononsibility, where e the se turned away from truth and went along with

trump attorney general jay sekulow referenced the caucuses in his closing argument.to this. >> there is nothing in the charges that could permit the removal of a duly elected president or warrant the ne gagts negation and the subversion of the american people's will. that should be whatever party you're affiliated with. you are being asked to do this. when tonight citizens of iowa are going to be caucusing for the first caucus for the presidential season, election season for the democratic party. tonight. >> all right. let's bring in susan glasser now. interesting, there's nothing in the constitution about an impeachment not coming close to an election, and the house managers' argument is why it has to be right now because they believe this president is a threat to the integrity of this election. he goes the other way. >> you heard zoe lofgren make this point. there's nothing that says we can't have impeachment in an election year. that's not what the founders said. quite the opposite. we are doing this because it's related to an election. now, that being said, we ta

. >> stephen: after trump lawyer jay sekulow asked, "why are we here?" gave him this answer. >> we are here, sir, to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution, and present the truth to the american people. that is why we are here, mr. sekulow, and if you don't know, now you know. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: nicely done. nicely done. that was good. >> jon: wooo! woooo, woooo! >> stephen: of course, old- school hip hop fans like me-- ( laughter ) know that's a quote from the notorious b.i.g.'s song "juicy." of course, rap has a long history in our nation's discourse. as george washington said in his farewell address, "as the father of the country, please call me big poppa. throw your hands in the ay-a, as you cross the delawa-ya!" ( laughter ) yeah. so beautiful. >> jon: oh, yes. >> stephen: so beautiful. ♪ ♪ other than video cameras controlled by the senate, no recording devices are allowed in the chamber during the senate trial. but, like in a regular trial, sketch artists are allowed in, which is how we know that yesterday,

. >> as you hear that applause behind me, pat cipollone, jay sekulow and other members of the president's legal team have arrived in the room. and they're receiving a standing ovation from the crowd arriving here. you're going to see the president thanking his team and allies. this is a packed house. i've covered a lot of big events, but this is a packed room. the media is pushed in the back. and it's flooded with some of the president's biggest allies including names who were concluded in the documentation of the handling of the president's handling of ukraine. we received what they call a three-minute warning. i'm not sure what that means. they normally give us a two-minute one. as soon as they get started, andrea, obviously, we will see them do this. certainly this white house, the president's aides and allies feel like the wind is at their back. we're hearing the introductions, so we'll toss it back to you. >> now we have the ruffles and flourishes, "hail to the chief." here comes the president. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> well, thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. [ applause ] >>

quite honestly, the end to the era of impeachment. >> i'd say despite jay sekulow and donald trump's showing the democrats' comments in the past it is not the democrats' drumbeat to impeachment led to today. it is donald trump's impeachable behavior. i'm more optimistic than others because i think this is a perfect confluence of two bad actors. donald trump the president and a corrupt republican caucus in the senate. it is unlikely that we would see both repeating themselves in the future if voters do what they typically do in this moment and reject what we see in washington. >> interesting coming from you. i'll remind viewer that is the voice you are hearing is the sound not of a trump critic or a resistance warrior but a person who served in the republican caucus. >> served with these guys. >> just as angus king did. we wanted to give you as much special coverage on that as we can and balancing the fact that the impeachment trial important as it is is not the only big development in the news or politics today and thank you for watching the special coverage and thrilled to tell you

jay sekulow. >> mr. chief justice, majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, senators, thank you for your patience over these two weeks. i want to focus on one last point if you believe we have established overwhelmingly both articles of impeachment failed to list impeachable offenses and therefore both articles one and two must fail. this entire campaign of impeachment that started from the very first day the president was inaugurated was partisan and it should never happen again. for three years this push for impeachment came straight from the president's opponents and when they finally arranged the crescendo with this body the united states senate into a horrible position. want to start by taking a look back on the screen of a graphic of a washington post headline january 20, 2017 the campaign to impeach president trump has begun this was posted 19 minutes after he was sworn in. i also want to play a video were members as early as january 15 before the president was sworn into office calli

we can expect to hear from the president's two lead attorneys, jay sekulow, pat cipollone. to take the whole two hours. i have spoken to the officials before the big moments, before the mueller report, before other investigations, and now that we are on the other side of this decision for witnesses they don't seem to be sweating today too much. >> i must ask you, senator, how do you see your former colleagues -- i know you are friendly with many of these senators up on the hill. we have half a dozen republican senators who have expressed publicly that the president's actions were inappropriate. >> right. >> were wrong, but not enough to remove him from office. i'm speaking about lindsey graham, marco rubio, mitt romney, susan collins and others. >> and there will be more. frankly, in my view, that's a good thing. . it's been needed for a while. i think senate republicans don't want to be seen like house republicans where they all said the call was perfect, the president did nothing wrong, that just falls so squarely outside of the facts that it's just not credible. so it's

white house counsel pat cipollone, jay sekulow to his left. just entered east room. as they did, supporters of the president stood up to clap for extended period of time. we didn't hear that from any other members of cabinet and supporters entered the room. but these were among the last people to come in, members of the legal defense team that that were able to argue the president's case effectively. "hail to the chief" now, the president in the east room of the white house. let's watch and listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [playing of "hail to the chief"] ♪. [cheers and applause] >> well, thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you. wow. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> well thank you very much, everybody. wow. we've all been through a lot together and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because it's been a very unfair situation. i invited some of our very good friends and we have limited room but everybody wanted to come. we kept it down to a minimum. believe it or not this is a minimum but a tremendous thing w

here is a look at the closing arguments from the president's defense team, starting with jay sekulow,sident's personal attorney. justice,ow: mr. chief majority leader mcconnell, democratic leader schumer, house managers, i want to join my colleagues in thanking you for your patience over these two weeks. i wanted to focus on one last point -- we believe we have established overwhelmingly that both articles of impeachment failed to allege impeachable offenses and that therefore both articles one and two must fail. campaign of impeachment that started from the very first day that the president was inaugurated was a partisan one and it should have -- never happen again. for three years this push for impeachment came straight from the president's opponents. when it finally reached a crescendo with this body, the united states senate was put in a terrible position. i want to take a look back. at -- on the screen is a washington post headline from 2017 -- the campaign to impeach president trump has begun. this was posted 19 minutes after he was sworn in. i also want to play a video early as

and you saw him much during the senate impeachment trial was the president's personal attorney, jay sekulow, talking with reporters. >> obviously we're pleased. the real victor today was the american people, but also the constitution, the office of the president, and the president himself. we're very pleased with the result. we're glad this is behind us. we're glad this is behind the country. and it's time now to turn attention to other things. i think that's what's going happen. >> how damaging is it that this is now not a bipartisan acquittal? >> look, it wasn't a bipartisan -- it was a bipartisan opposition to the impeachment articles themselves. so there was, on one count, there was one republican that voted guilty. in the house, you had, i think three democrats that didn't support the articles of impeachment. so look, the founders were very smart. they understood the concept of how voting should go, what the requirements are, what the criteria are. it was a good day for the constitution. >> you'd not concerned about mitt romney's vote then? >> the president has been acquitted. we're no

ainsley: jay sekulow said he's glad it's behind us.te, you don't remove a president for listening to bad advisers but eventually taking better advice from better advisers. brian: ben sasses said that also and barr, attorney general, if they are going to come after you, they will come after you but color inside the lines. he doesn't belong in ukraine undermining national security adviser, that's what got him in trouble. steve: if you were watching christopher wray, he was asked, has the president asked you to do any investigating of hunter biden or joe biden or barism or anything like that and he said absolutely not. brian: that's the point. steve: the president can ask personal attorney to do -- >> do you think it was good move sending rudy giuliani to ukraine? >> listen, he was the only guy he trusted. brian: you have the justice department, that's what got him in trouble, you can't send attorney wild-catting in the ukraine. ainsley: it's done, it's over, the congress has spoken, yesterday, yesterday or 2 days ago we were watching the

that is consistent with what pat cipollone and jay sekulow have done so far.hey have been given to help in their view bolster the argument is so clean and concise, they don't need to drag it out. you will see multiple attorneys not just cipollone and sekulow who are the two leads. the hill team reports and i can't tell on the video if you can see ken starr but he's on the hill as well. >> we can pull it back up. >> but i think it's interesting and notable as he's there as we haven't heard a ton from him. if he's on the hill you may hear from him. as far as what the president is up to, he has a low key day. nothing on the public schedule other than a closed lunch whiz vice president as he does during the week. i would watch twitter because he's got a lot on his mind. i'm told by sources that he's been talking about impeach -- the state of the union coming up tomorrow night and iowa the other big story of the morning. as far as the state of the union our team is being told that impeachment won't be a huge focus here. expect a passing reference or two, but the pr

closing arguments in the impeachment trial of president trump also of view of the president attorney jay sekulow and his legal team entering the chamber. the rules are made of the trial were set on friday afternoon as they wrapped up. here's the senate clerk reading those rules. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> mr. chief justice, house -- i sent a resolution to the desk and ask the clerk to report. >> the clerk will report. >> senate resolution 488 to provide related procedures concerning the articles of impeachment against donald john trump president of united states, resolve the record in this case shall be closed and no motion with respect to reopening the record shall be in order for the duration of these proceedings. the senate shall proceed to final arguments as provided in the impeachment rules, waving the two-person rule contained in rural 22 of the rules of procedure and practice in the senate when sitting on impeachment trials. such arguments shall begin at 1, 2020, and not exceed four hours. and be equally divided between the house and the president to be used as under the rul