he is republican senator john barrasso. i know you guys have had late hours, busy days, so we really appreciate it. let's start here. what have you -- what new information have you learned from the house managers' presentation? >> in some ways it's like groundhogs day about every hour and a half they start over again. i think one of the interesting things yesterday afternoon, they deviated from that by spending so much time talking about vice president joe biden and the money that his son hunter was given by ukrainian company under valuation for corruption to the point that this morning in "the new york times," the headline on the front page was that the case has taken a risky turn yesterday by so much focus and discussion about the bidens, even in adam schiff's closing statements last night. >> i think the part of what they

to become the majority leader, not remove the president. >> republican senators mike braun and john barrasso from this morning responding to the "new york times" story. you also are from the minority leader saying because of this "new york times" story than that i want to hear from john bolton but they want to reform mick mulvaney as well. inside the near times reporting this morning they say according to mr. bolton, he said after the president's july phone call with the president of ukraine he raised with attorney general william barr his concerns about mr. giuliani who is pursuing a shadow ukraine policy encouraged by the president and mr. bolton told mr. barr the president mentioned him on the call. mr. barr denied he learned the call from mr. bolton. the chessie pharma has said he learned about it only in mid august. the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney was present for at least one phone call where the president and mr. giuliani discussed the ambassador, mr. bolton road. mr. holding has told associates he was always step with the president spoke with his lawyer to protect

. >> host: stop there john barrasso speaking to reporters. [inaudible question] >> there isn't a microphone there but john barrasso speaking to reporters just outside the entrance of the senate chamber, again they are in a mid-afternoon recess. as soon as they gavel back in we'll take you through live. don from illinois. should there be witnesses? >> caller: democrats thought they had a slam dunk. they blew it. enough they want to do a do-over. they want to take the pressure of of the congress -- the house of representatives and put it in the senate. >> john does any of the new fox john bolton's book sway your view on this. >> caller: it's a book. we don't know what is in the book so let it go. >> host: dean in los angeles, on the issue of witnesses. what do you say, dean? >> caller: well, yes, i believe we absolutely need to hear from witnesses. and see evidence. and documents. in my view, senate republicans refuse to allow evidence or witnesses, which is not to say this is at all been resolved. this is still alleging whether or not there's

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

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let's ask senator john barrasso, good to have you back with us. i want to play something from chairman jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee, one of the managers. is what he said today. >> the american people have common sense, they know any trial that does not allow witnesses is not a trial, it is a cover-up. the speaker's insistence on this point. >> holding those articles for weeks and weeks produced pressure on the senate to start this conversation about witnesses, if you don't vote for them don't have them this whole thing is a farce anyway. >> what they've done in the house is a force, the house has been found guilty of abuse in the sense that only one of the three americans that believe what happened in the house has been fair, has been evenhanded because the president wasn't able to face his accuser, the hearings were held behind closed doors, people at the press were kept out of the president did not have due process, justice will be done in the senate. we will hear from the house managers, we will hear from the white house, membe

wyoming senator john barrasso. texas governor greg abbott and trump 2020 campaign manager, brad parscale. yeah, big show. >>> let's get right at it. fox news columnist liz peek is with me now. it was an economic tour de force by the president in davos, one thing after -- trump dominated it. >> absolutely. he told the war what he's going to tell american voters in the runup to the 2020 election which is our policies have worked. our agenda has worked. lighter regulation, lower taxes. who is benefiting? the word most often used in his speech, it's all about the workers and he's extolling that agenda but also calling on europe to do the same thing. look, they have average unemployment of 7.5%. we are at 3.5%. they are not growing. we're growing. the message totally was this is good for middle america because those are the states that are in play, those are the voters that are in play. president trump won those voters in 2016 with promises. he has delivered on those promises and he's going to win them again in 2020. it

i'm joined by john barrasso of wyoming. he will serve as senator, as juror during the impeachment trial, he serves on the foreign relations committee. senator, we appreciate you taking the time this morning. >> thank you, jim. >> earlier this week you said justice will be done in the senate. since the vote on impeachment articles in the house, we have a new witness, a central one, who volunteered to testify before the senate, that is john bolton. we have new white house indictments showing communications back and forth about direction from the president to withhold this aid from ukraine. and we also have new text messages back and forth between giuliani and associate here about surveilling the u.s. ambassador in ukraine who the president forced out. i wonder, how can you do justice in the senate without considering that new evidence and these new witnesses. >> number one is in the senate we will listen to whatever the house impeachment managers bring to us to consider. they may -- >> including new evidence? you would listen

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senator john barrasso coming up live, plus a member of the presidents defense team. merous investigations during his time in the administration, so what does he think about john bolton's decision to write a book? being described as a tell all? he is alive and minutes. and a bipartisan way not tonight for president trump, the new nafta officially signed into law. the president said it is a colossal victory for you, the american worker. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with white house correspondent kevin corke with the lateness latest from the impeachment trial. a good evening, kevin, looks like it's still ongoing. >> still going on, we'll keep an eye on it for you. or there is a growing concern that not only do they lack the votes to force more witnesses on the senate trial, that they hava number of them it is feared could end up voting with republicans to acquit the president. it wouldn't take much. just four g.o.p. senators would have to join democrats to produce the majority needed to call witnesses and exte

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durbin: i respect john barrasso and i have to tell you, i have to give a healthyespect and say i disagreeith him when it comes to witnesses. he said at one point if they wanted to call witnesses, they could have called in the hse. no, john. the second count of the impeachment is the refusal of the president to cooperate when it came to the discovery of witnesses anum dts. there was no opportunity to call mick mulvaney or house members who put together the articles of impeachment. why do i think witnesses would be appropriate? i spent most of my life before congress as a trial lawyer. you can't have a trial before witnesses and evidence. you h ce a cover-up, but you can't have a trial. i don't think r we shoulde out the possibility that witnesses will get us closer to the truth. lisa: are democrats open to the idea of allowing republicans to call witness in exchange for you being able to call it witness biu could choose? sen. d here's how i think it will evolve. i think m if four ore republican senators say we want this to be a respectable underting and witnesses should be allowed, at that

. >> we hear from republican senator john barrasso. thanks for taking the time. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> you were there on the senate floor and heard the president's personal lawyer argue on the senate floor if the president deems his election in the national interest, he can, therefore, do anything to get re-elected. do you accept that argument? >> it was interesting because he brought the case of awbraham lincoln as president during the civil war as part of the discussion. that's not what we're being asked to judge this president on. there are two articles of impeachment. >> i'm asking if you -- as the president's lawyer, what's your reaction to that extremely expansive definition of presidential power? can i ask this in the simplest terms, do you reject that argument? >> what i'm saying is presidents have specific powers under the constitution. i listened to the -- to dershowitz make that case yesterday. and what he is saying is, even if the case is proven by the house, it still doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. and

senator john barrasso, republican, wyoming, joins us now. mr. senator, welcome back to the show. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: if we get witnesses of any kind, john bolton testifies, surely we can demand, you can demand that hunter biden appear as well. if that happens, then you're going to stretch this thing out forever. >> you're absolutely right, stuart. look, let's remember that this is a purely partisan impeachment done for political purposes because as your economic numbers surely show, we have seven million new jobs since president trump has been in office, unemployment at an all-time low, consumer confidence at an all-time high. this is the only thing the democrats can do to beat president trump. but the momentum in our conference is clearly moving toward ending this trial, going to a final vote, a vote on final judgment. we hope to have that on friday. that's where we are right now. stuart: let me repeat that. you hope to have a vote on friday of this week on a final judgment on the charges against the president. that's it? >> that is it

senator john barrasso says he thinks it's just a matter of time before they acquit the president. >>he democrats may try to throw a couple hail hail mary passes, i can't tell you on

and some of the republicans senators, and they never threatened the president, lisa murkowski, john barrassowhen we talk to democrats, and they are afraid to go against the president because it will inflame the base. that is something you will hear a lot about in the president's defense team presenting their case. and the democrats have presented over the past three days. mike ross from indiana indicated, they had control here, the other thing you will hear about is the bidens, the democrats brought up with angus king, he thought this is a gamble for the house democratic manner to cite this earlier but that was a free bottle because he expected the president to go after the bidens. shannon: what can we expect tomorrow morning when the president's defense team get their turn? >> this was a way to set up the rest of the week as jay sekulow said think of this as a movie trailer. it will only be three hours but it enables them to establish the narrative and counter what democrats have been doing as you go into the sunday shows. that will be key but the issue of the bidens will be number one. sha

. >> sandra: joining us now, republican senator john barrasso of wyoming. he's the chairman of the senate republican conference and joins us now. good morning, and thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me, sandra. >> sandra: great to have you here this morning. what do you ultimately believe will happen with his vote on witnesses? >> we are coming to a conclusion of this, and i believe the president will be acquitted and that we will not be having witnesses. that vote will be held later today. people realize, and senator alexander is absolutely right, impeachment should never be partisan. what we have here was a very partisan, political process, rushed through the house. political stunts being played by the house. if there was any abuse of power, it was by the house with these impeachment articles. >> sandra: by the way, that was not the take of senator alexander, who did say that democrats clearly made the case that the president acted inappropriately and did abuse powered. but still, he is not willing to vote yes and call additional witnesses in t

. >> thanks very much mark morgan peter navarro we appreciate it we will see you soon, senator john barrasso the president's defense team has its term this weekend. >> banned from banking former wells fargo ceo hit with alignment ban from banking industry massive fine to go with it following fake account scandal of wells fargo. back in a minute. invested at a great rate. that's why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. ♪ talk, talk while our competition continues to talk. when i lost my sight, my biggest fear was losing my independence. mmm... good. so i've spent my life developing technology to help the visually impaired. we are so good. we built a guide that uses ibm watson... to help the blind. it is already working in cities like tokyo. my dream is to help millions more people like me. maria: welcome back thanks for joining us. i am maria bartiromo, coming to you live from world economic forum in davos, switzerland friday, january 24 take a look at markets right now 8:33 a.m. east coast, we are looking at another gain start of trading about an hour

republican senator john barrasso from wyoming says there is nothing new about john bolton's book.hat is your take on that? >> adam schiff says the evidence is so overwhelmingly and incriminating, if it is so overwhelming and incriminating why do they need witnesses to testify about it. that is one issue against witnesses. alan dershowitz he pave the defense i yesterday i believe it was, even if you take what john bolton as being true that is not impeachable offense. you have not met the constitutional burden of high crimes and misdemeanors. the trump defense team well argue the point, even if he is brought in to testify. liz: looks like viewers are tuning out impeachment. maybe 5% of total available viewers, adult have youership watched. it is down 80% during the nixon water gate hearings. 30, 33% during clinton. does bolton's accusation, bolton's accusation change a key element of the president's defense, that the president released aid to ukraine without getting any investigation of the bidens and ukraine didn't feel any pressure? does that change any of that? >> i don't think i

on the senate floor and you can see senator mitch mcconnell and the conversation that includes john barrasso of wyoming, john cornyn of texas, lamar alexander of tennessee and ted cruz of texas. as they try to figure out what the senate democrats will be doing next. robert of the washington post of the street, they aren't willing to come forward, that is a quote from sharon brown a democrat from ohio adding that the tragedy of this era endangered republicans go all in for trump. that is on the twitter page. the senate waits as the leadership negotiates. with the senate temporarily recesses as the leadership appeared to be negotiating in an agreement over the next step in the impeachment trial. they can be seen spotting and chatting with mitt romney, republican of utah, while representative will locker and of spoke quietly with democratic senators print in the center of the chamber, the focus was on mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, chuck schumer the democratic leader who huddles with staff as they discussed the timing for the trial next step. i want to share back on capitol hill who ap

. >> let's bring in some republican conference chair, john barrasso, for a little insight. don't know if you can get a look at this is the card you fill out when you have a question you want for counsel for the president or house managers, it goes to the chief justice and if you read your questions so how has that been going today hours and this? >> i asked question number 83. we are now on question number 90 closing down for the night, we have another 8 hours tomorrow questioning, essentially talking about another 90 questions, 5 minutes to answer each one and by that time people will have heard enough, they will have learned what they need to know about this case and the plan is for friday to vote and the momentum is moving to say we've heard enough, let's move to final judgment. >> last-minute this time we were talking about a report that senate majority leader mcconnell did not have the votes to hold off witnesses. tonight, senator gardner was one who came for the people speculated about, sounds like he's not going to go for witnesses but there are several other in play

but i spoke to john barrasso yesterday. he said he's at least open to the question of witnesses. michael, given your experience here and covering this closely, lay out what you think the president's defense is likely to be. >> i think the president's defense is likely sort of take two different paths. the first path is that he just did nothing wrong. you've heard this already. and he's going to argue that whatever happened can put -- can say some things that may be hard to prove but the defense will be, look, there's nothing bad that happened here. and so the president does this all the time. you might hear that a lot. the second, i think they'll argue that the money was released. and, therefore, the harm, whatever harm was produced against was minimal. no harm, no foul, and, therefore, this is a lot about nothing. >> and you might hear multiple arguments, even contradictory ones saying it didn't happen, but even if it did happen, it's not impeachmenable. >> the gao comes in and says it was illegal to hold that aid. now, you have many republicans saying, this is a partisan organi

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john barrasso, the republican senator from wyoming indicated that he thinks it is going to be wrapped up tomorrow night. in the past hour or so here we have interesting questions. one question there was about whether or not they should call witnesses here and how long that would take. the answer from adam schiff, the house impeachment manager is that it would only take up about a week. there was also a probing question from susan collins, republican from maine, she is one of the swing votes that could determine the length of this trial, she asked if it was ever appropriate for the president of the united states to enlist a foreign government to help investigate a campaign rival. it was also a question about whether or not it was appropriate, would be appropriate to try to impeach barack obama over benghazi. that kind of gives you a sense over some of these questions they are going through tonight. they will wrap up tonight just past 11:00. >> bret: jack, thanks. more on all of this with the panel. also breaking tonight, the world health organization has declared a global emergency ove

here's a bit of senator john barrasso, senator larngford trying to make the case in front of the camera. so listen to this. >> well, we sat through another day, seems like groundhog's day in the senate. >> the democrats have bought into that premise that if you say it often enough, it must be true. >> on tuesday all day, we heard the same stories, the same videos. on wednesday all day, the same stories and video. manager schiff started this morning by doing the same thing in a different context. >> is that the best defense of the president? too repetitive? >> obviously not. who said a lot of senators are hearing this for the first time. >> and the tense lying. >> and finally look at the others seeping through. it's a constitutional obligation to oversee impeachment is really, really boring. we don't want to sit here and listen to things we disagree with. talk about snow flakes, people. do your job. >> i think part of the reason is because we actually have heard from some republican senators and republicans like the president. it's just been in the democrats and the house managers' prese

senator john barrasso on yesterday, he said from his perspective, this may take weeks. this idea of two to three weeks, is that a guarantee like dana said, like i said many times, dispense with the idea of any guarantee, i imagine, but how long can this go on? >> you're exactly right. the big question is witnesses. we'll see a couple of days of arguments by the house managers, the prosecutors, and the president's lawyers and a period of q&a from the senators through the chief justice, the chief justice asking the questions of the senators, you know, that might go on for a day or two. and then the question is witnesses. if there are no witnesses, they go to closing arguments and we're done in a couple of weeks. if there are witnesses, though, then who knows how long it might take. in clinton there were depositions of the witnesses, and then there was the discussion about whether the witnesses would actually testify at trial. so then, yeah, we could be looking at many weeks if there are witnesses. >> dana bash, ross garber, thank you very much. >> absolutely. >> this morn

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senator john barrasso of leadership, susan collins revisiting -- >> neil: this warrants more follow-up in terms of the comments more follow-up? >> neil: yeah, lev parnas to get him up there. >> at the end of the day, when it comes to bringing in these different witnesses, i think that they should actually have something to do with ther bidenr my colleague say that they didn't have anything to do with it, but the president definitely looked into investigating something that seemed to be corrupt, or from the state of illinois we had governor after governor, politician after politician go to jail. these individuals had something to do with the process, and i think those are the folks that we need to be calling as witnesses, maybe not joe biden per se, but we need to understand what really happened and how this all works together because i think the president -- >> neil: you're open to those witnesses. therein lies the debate. guys, thank you very, very much. in the meantime, democrats are pushing for witnesses. investors are pushing stocks to new records. the disconnect that we can connec

john barrasso, republican senator from wyoming indicated he thought the momentum his word on the republicane 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 so, chuck schumer, democratic leader, he posed a question to both defense counsel for the president and house impeachment managers, whether or not the administration had cooperated with the house in providing documents? that has been front and center. also there was very interesting question from susan collins, republican of maine. she asked whether or not it was ever appropriate for the president to lean on a foreign government to try to investigate a political rival? susan collins is one of the swing votes who could vote for witnesses. the reason we don't know the absolute resolution of this, we know what the outcome is, the president will probably be exonerated, there are not 67 votes there. the vote for witnesses or not witnesses it is right on the edge, 51-49, 52-48, maybe 50-50. by rule a tie vote in the senate loses. back to you. connell: chad

that includes senator john barrasso yesterday who said he might be open to it. senator collins changed her tune a business. sus if the house didn't do it isn't it a little late to the game? but then apparently she may have seen lev parnas' revelations and now she's saying that she is open to them. what do you think is going to happen here? >> also susan collins is one of the senators who was there 21 years ago in the clinton trial. and she was very notably, in fact, one of -- still in the center of this -- again, i think you can't understate jeff's point. not only were the two parties able to talk to each other and agree on the rules. when it comes to negotiate. the senators were terrified that you were going to have monica lewinsky on the floor of the senate speaking about unseemly sexual matters. they came -- it will come out of the specificity of the clinton trial. number two, there were so many documents that were already available. there was a full grand jury inquiry by ken starr. there were hundreds and hundreds of hours of sworn testimony by all the key f

the other one, john barrasso said, i think you're mistaking the point. that's not what he was saying. that was what he was saying. you could see some republicans a little uncomfortable. i don't think they'll want to talk about this. they'll try to seize on dershowi dershowitz's other argument this is not impeachal. he's a controversial figure and republicans are both seeing him as a blessing and a curse. >> david gregory? >> can i raise another point, too? it's not just those points. this is republican senators just in lockstep with the president who don't want to get into the substance of this. they'll just dismiss it for process or politics. those who are paying close attention and seriously weighing the issue of witnesses, for example, murkowski and collins and senator romney. asking that question about basically, look, what if the president had mixed motives. good motives and bad motives for why he wanted to go down this road. that's why i think they are getting an answer from the president's lawyers at least to give them something to hang their hat

center john barrasso here to respond to allegations that his counterparts are involved in a sham cover up to protect the president. panic in the progressive movement tonight as the feud between sanders and warren goes public. the far left infighting, joe biden off the 2020 ticket? we will debate. the u.s. with a joint operation with iraqi forces. what does that mean? we have a live report from the middle east coming up. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with correspondent kristin fisher and the latest on the upcoming impeachment trial as a set of repairs to formally accept the articles tomorrow. good evening, kristin. >> good evening, shannon. opening arguments are set for tuesday, and when the impeachment trial really gets underway, democrats say it is not just president trump that will be under scrutiny. >> the senate is on trial, as well as the president. because the senate conduct a trial according to the constitution, to mitigate the vindicate the public? or do they participate in the president's crimes by covering them up?

here is what john barrasso said about ending this thing tomorrow.omentum in our conference is clearly toward ending this trial, going to a final vote, a vote on final judgment. we hope to have that on friday. stuart: yeah. on friday. indiana senator mike brown with us now. we hear, senator, that some of the republicans who are wavering in favor of witnesses are now wavering the other way. a couple of democrats are saying no witnesses. that sounds like you could have a vote to get this thing done tomorrow? >> i hope so because usmca, i was over there for that. i actually got a pen. that was a pen worth receiving. i remember when they handed out the impeachment pens. what john barrasso said, he and i have been leading the charge, especially ted cruz as well among others to make sure we don't get swamped by the media on the whole impeachment proceeding. for many people, you know this has been ill-founded from the get-go. the main takeaway i had dershowitz put it out there, of course they're impugning him now because he said the articles are ill-founded

senator john barrasso joins us now.mittee in the united states senate. mr. senator, do you see signs of impending regime change in iran? >> i do, stuart, but remember, we have been there before. i stand with the freedom loving people of iran who want to get out under this oppressive regime, who have been doing what they have done for the last 40 years. president trump is right, we can never allow iran to get a nuclear weapon. stuart: it's a remarkable turn-around in two weeks, isn't it. two weeks ago, qassem suleimani was organizing protests and now he's dead and the protesters in the streets of iran are saying death to khamenei. that is an extraordinary turnaround. i don't think the iranian regime has ever been in this position before. >> no, i don't think they have. a month or so ago, they were in the streets protesting the increased cost of gasoline and the lowering of the value of their money but what has happened as a result of that, with suleimani under his direction, 180 iranian protesters were killed, 700 were d

senators chuck schumer, chris coons, mike braun, ten scott john barrasso made remarks. >> [inaudible

we just have a report here that john barrasso, senator barrasso, republican, said the bolton news, heoks, there is nothing new here. the arguments are nothing new here, not true, effort to sell books. i made myself a list here. and it is not important because the money was released. and, you know, you go on and on and on. it is not criminal. therefore you can't impeach him over it. you can go through the other -- all of those arguments, but the one thing they're not talking about is that all they have been saying is, john pointed out, there is only hearsay, and here you have a conservative republican, who served in the administration, say, directly told me this.vely the president- >> here is chuck schumer. >> good morning, everybody. i'm proud to be joined by two of my outstanding colleagues, the senators from maryland and wisconsin. you know, i could use a little water. okay. good morning, everybody. now over a month ago we said that hearing from witnesses and reviewing documents is the bare minimum for a fair trial. since then, redacted emails were released that said there was clear

senator john barrasso had to say there is nothing new here, he's just trying to sell books. course, weighed in, calling bolton disloyal. the trump white house has called him a liar. lou dobbs called him a rhino, republican in name only, and a tool for radical democrats, which i don't think anyone had that on their bingo card for how john bolton would come up in the proceedings. but you never know. moving on to rudy giuliani, he weighed in saying bolton wasn't man enough and senator pat roberts sounds this out saying bolton was reading "gone with the wind." a lot of republicans changing their tone when it comes to john bolton trying to discredit him. and by default, the manuscript he's written. >> very interesting. thank you very much. i know john bolton for a long time, he's a neoconservative, very much of a hawk, very conservative, real republican, so many areas. but look at the criticism he's now getting. >> right. because his testimony and his book would be damaging to the president of the united states. and so you have to discredit him. that's the way it works on fox new

i'm joined now by a republican senator, john barrasso of the state of wyoming.so you have now heard one very long day of the house democratic managers talking really in granular detail about how they believe that the president pushed the ukrainian leader to announce an investigation of joe biden and threaten to withhold aid that you and your colleagues passed here in congress that the ukrainians needed. any -- have they swayed you at all? >> no, nothing what i heard -- we heard what we heard the day before and i'm expecting more of the same today, just repeating, and repeating and repeating about every hour and a half, they repeat themselves, they play the same videos, use the same quotes, i was surprised how often joe biden and hunter biden's name were brought up by the democrats yesterday in this area during the time when -- >> why did it surprise you? >> the number of times they brought his name up continues to remind people that there is concern about what happened in the previous administration. >> so, let's talk about the question of witnesses, you have sa

senator john barrasso says he thinks it's just a matter of time before they acquit the president. >> think the democrats may try to throw a couple hail hail mary passes, i can't tell you on the timing but the way it's going to end is the president will be acquitted, found not guilty by the senate. >> bret: senate minority leader chuck schumer is ramping up pressure on republicans to vote for new witnesses. >> republican senators who decide to go against the will of the people will have to reckon with it. the result of today's vote is still an open question. b2 chad pergram joining us live from capitol hill. they 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 o

senators coming up in about two hours at 11:35 eastern , we are accepting a news conference featuring john barrassomike braun, mike lee, james lankford and lindsey graham. jamie diprete tweets about from a point earlier. that press conference, they are certain to get some questions about this new york times story. host: we will go back to calls and hear from alan in little walk -- little rock. caller: good morning. one quick add on for john, if i may. my reason for calling was for him to look up an article that i just noticed over the weekend from the toronto star. i took a chance to watch the bbc and cbc as often as i can and they have some outstanding journalists compared to american media. believe ito star, i te.pronounced corbet the subject said she is fighting corruption. it is the most incredible article i have read. , have been reading articles professionally, even for 50 years. -- how doesthat that buy into the impeachment? talks about the corruption in ukraine. the woman who was highly publicized, sadly, was attacked for her reporting on the corruption of ukraine. of this the election medi

now to senator john barrasso of wyoming. >> already that have been diagnoses that they have been to thatthe incubation time could be up to 14 days. so in terms of what we would do, since there are the symptoms of the flu and there's a lot of flu going around, this is a virus that is a respiratory-transmitted virus. coughing, sneezing, are ways that it's transmitted. certainly cover yourself if you are doing any of those things. [laughter] additionally, wash your hands. if you are sick, stay home. if your kids are sick, don't send them to school. we certainly don't want transmission from person to person to person. this is an evolving disease and virus similar to the sars virus that we've had previously. i just ask people to take the appropriate precautions. now, with regard to the impeachment, and adam schiff's closing argument last night about president trump's not doing what's best for the american people, only doing what's best for him, since he has come into office we have new jobs in america. numbers came out on consumer confidence, highest they've been in this country in 20 years.

. >> that was senator john barrasso at the top of the hour on this program as he gets set to visuallyeive those articles of impeachment. that is happening later today. in priors joins us now. en, good morning to you. a lot of breaking news expected today. we have the reading of the articles. you've also got the swearing in of the senators. this will indeed be a busy day. tickets for the next couple of days and on into next week as this trial gets underway. what do you see? >> if we operate under the premise that this will be a 2-week trial it goes on to next tuesday. we don't know who is going to go first. probably, it will be the democrats will go first and present their case. and then the trump team will go after that. they make it into the presentation of the case. in the clinton impeachment trial, each side had 24 hours to present their case. 24 hours over the course of time. after they are done presenting their cases, senators will get to ask questions. they are written questions if we go by what happened under clinton. they don't want the grandstanding and a delay et cetera. and

joining me senate republican conference chairman senate foreign he relations committee member john barrassotell us what last two weeks has shown us. >> i think we have actually reset the alignment with iran, the president is absolutely right. he has been very measured very restrained drew a bold red line and said to iran, you cross this line, which is killing an american and you will pay a price. he has done it. in terms of sanctions what the president said with his speech i completely agree. we want to change their behavior. which means no nuclear weapons means no terrorism, and the sanctions already had been really crushing on iran and their economy, in terms of their currency icht has been significantly devalued the president is going to do more, with sanctions they know we have military might the president absolutely right in terms of what he is communicating to iran, it is time for them to change their behavior. maria: so do you think, i mean you know it is interesting to look at a approach thank you iranians took in terms of striking, our bases where it was -- they were there were u.s

john barrasso of wyoming, who is part of the republican leadership team.jority leader mitch mcconnell has signed on to a resolution to dismiss this trial , these charges against the president. if they follow the 1999 clinton impeachment rules, a vote to dismiss could come after opening arguments and questions from senators. in 1999, when they did not dismiss after that vote, then they voted on the subpoena and witnesses. they were able to see evidence. and then they voted. we are hearing that senate democrats, when the rules are ,oted on on tuesday afternoon could force votes on witnesses as early as tuesday afternoon. our coverage of all that on c-span two, starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern time on tuesday. olivia in virginia, republican caller, you are next. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to say that i don't have confidence that the trial will be fair. i think that from the very beginning, the demonization of this president has been breathtaking. the republicans have never been on this preston's side. president's side, that is why 40 congresspe

the impeachment trial might be chances inoe biden's iowa, here is that exchange, first senator john barrassond then joni ernst at the end. [video clip] >> everyone was paying close attention about the discussion for the bidens, but the four people whose eyes were open were elizabeth warren, michael bennet, bernie sanders, and amy klobuchar -- i have never seen them also attentive. >> iowa caucuses, folks, are this next monday evening and i am really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters, the democratic caucus boers. will they be supporting vice president biden at this point? host 2: i was joni ernst yesterday. that is being called the subway stakeout in the basement of the capital where you have been watching senators make their comments before, after, and in the brakes in the impeachment trial. several news outlets jumping on whether republicans are weaponizing the trump team's comments about the bidens, joe biden and hunter biden, here is one from the liberal side of the spectrum from the huffington post. one of the people they talk to, s

. >> we've heard from republicans senators like john barrasso want it over tonight. we want the final vote tonight and impeachment is over when we wake up tomorrow morning. steve kornacki is with us today. by the way, three days away from iowa. >> there we go. whew! >> how does this place if it does at all into that vote? obviously talked many times about the senators who vhave ha to sit there in washington, and open for pete buttigieg and joe biden. does impeachment play in iowa? >> in the polling and reports from folks out there on the ground saying this is not something iowa democratic voters are talking about or asking voters about. certainly asking the candidates about, can you beat donald trump? how are you going to beat donald trump? first and foremost on their minds. of course, we had sort of a sense going into this trial that oh, wow, all of these senators in washington will be at that disadvantage because they're not out there. but in the couple weeks this has been going on, the candidate who's been moving most in iowa has been in that senate chamber. berni

two of president residents loyal defenders singh together reporter and before that two senators, john barrasso and rick braun of indiana, we want to get your calls, your reaction in the remaining 10 to 15 minutes during the senate break. share with you one of the tweets from senator rand paul, one of the storylines getting attention as he named the whistle-blower in a question to the. he people. manager and the president's lawyer he wrote my question is not but a whistle-blowers i have no independent information on his identity. hi question is the actions 0 known obama partisans win the nfc and tho house staff and lorded to have inspired before impeachment proceed little had even begun. the i-is the issue of witnesses and before the q & ay session start the senate, chuck schumer spoke to reporters on capitol hill. >> we said this is an uphill fight. the pressure that trump who is a vindictive, nasty president and mcconnell placed on them is large but we're still hopeful. truth prevails. we -- our caucus is so strong and so united, because frankly we believe we have truth and right on our side,

and bc tweets out that john barrasso has laid out the friday schedule 1:00 o'clock p.m. four hours of closing arguments including debate on witnesses, vote on witnesses, if it fails moved to vote on the articles senators will stay until the work is decided and completed friday night. so we don't know yet if there will be a session on saturday but if there is we will be here. stephen in norwalk ohio please go ahead we might have to cut you off if the senator comes to the microphone but in the meantime we want to hear what you learn today. >> >>caller: i really haven't learned a whole lot new than what has been repeated over and over again. would like to start off saying i am a trip supporter since 2015 so let's go back to 2015 when president trump announced his candidacy. >> hold off here is a senator from indiana. >> not much new to talk about i do have information on what happens tomorrow. we are down to two hours 53 minutes. if we end up in a tie vote , that could be overruled by the chair. unlikely although it might happen. so if it is a tie vote the way the motion is