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[silence] >> the question from the senator sullivan and langford to the counsel for the president. there has been conflicting testimony about how long the senates might be time to up in attaining additional evidence. at the beginning of this trial, the minority leader offered 11 amendments to obtain additional evidence in the form of documents and depositions from several federal agencies. if the senate had adopted all 11 of these amendments, how long do you think this impeachment trial would take? >> mr. chief justice, members of the senate, it would take a long time. it would take a long time just to get through those motions. but there have been 17 witnesses. we are talking about now additional witnesses. that the managers have put forward an democratic leader schumer has discussed. he has discussed four witnesses in particular. if this body were to grant witnesses would say yes you get those four witnesses and the white house and the president's counsel gets what? whatever i want? that's mr. schumer that's what you said this is what i want to what adam schiff, i want hunter bid

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langford worcester marquis, mr. mcconnell, ms. mcnally, mr. menendez mr. merkley, mr. moran, ms. makowski, ms. murphy missus murray, mr. paul, mr. perdue, mr. peters mr. portman, mr. reid, mr. risch, mr. roberts mr. romney, ms. rosen, mr. rounds, esther rubio mr. sanders, mr. sass, mr. schultz, mr. schumer mr. scott of florida, mr. scott of south carolina, missus sheena, mr. shelby missus cinema, ms. smith, missus stabenow, mr. sullivan mr. tester, mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. toomey, mr. udall, mr. mr. van holland, ms. warren, mr. warner mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young >> any senator who is not in the senate chamber at the time the oath was administered to the other senators we will make that fact known to the chair so the oath may be administered as soon as possible. >> the sergeant at arms will make the population. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. while the house of representatives exit exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the u

the question from senator langford and holly is for counsel for the president.r the past 244 years, eight judges have been removed from office by the u.s. senate is never a president. the judges have been removed for bribery, perjury and tax evasion, waging war against the united states and other unlawful action. how does the current impeachment article differ from the removal by the senate? there is an enormous difference between impeaching and removing a judge, even a justice and impeaching and removing a president. no judge, not even the chief justice is the judicial branch. there is a judicial branch. the president is the executive branch. there isn't always a vice presidents. we have here co. of time there was no vice president that needed the amendment so there is no comparison between impeaching the judge and president. moreover, there is a textual difference. the constitution provides judges serve during good behavior. that is congressman schiff's standard and we wish everybody served good behavior but the constitution doesn't say that the president shal

. >> one idea being kicked around by republican senators james langford and lindsey graham would let senators look at bolton's information a secure location to see if it's worth having bolton testify. >> recommending that the white house turn it over, put it in one of the skiffs here so we can go through it, read it, and see for ourselves if there's anything significant there. >> remember, republicans actually complained about house democrats holding impeachment interviews in a secure facility. the national security council is reviewing bolton's book for classified information. not clear if they're open to sharing it. democrats cnn spoke with rebuffed this idea completely. >> with the senate vote on witnesses looming this week, polls show the public at least wants to hear more. three out of four saying witnesses should be allowed to testify. even among republicans, more say yes than no. and the white house could get some help from across the aisle. cnn has learned some democratic senators from states that trump won haven't ruled out voting to acquit him. that raises the possibility o

. >> live in toronto, i am amanda langford we are now joined both by our bloomberg and bnm bloombergudiences. here are the top stories. a sigh of relief on the comments and president trump suggesting further military force is not needed. facing steeper declines after the iranian plane crash that killed 170 six people raising new questions for boeing. canada says it will assist in the investigation. trouble and asset management. dismissing between 5% and 10% of global workforce after assets declined last year. we bring the latest. it has been quite the ride for the major averages over the last day, and futures overnight took a huge tumble and obviously, boeing also suffered. we have had a reversal of all of those movements in the last couple of hours since the president spoke. belowoil in the u.s. is $60 a barrel right now. move from its high point to its low point in the last 12 hours. the 10-year yield back to 186 after being as low as 170 overnight. the s&p 500 right now, a nice rally. ,lso looking at our wcrs because we have a bastion of middle east turmoil currencies. if you see

now, senator langford. >> mr. chairman, thank you. about three years ago, president trump announced that he was going to revisit nafta. a lot of folks around the country that have benefitted from nafta long-term looked at it with a little bit of a nervous eye. nafta has put, for the last 25 years, a really good playing field for having low or no tariffs across north america. and what we've seen is billions of dollars in trade in canada and mexico being by far our largest trading partners. the last two and a half years, trump administration, through their negotiations, and through a lot of word through the media back and forth of what's going to happen or what's not going to happen at the end of the day have actually locked in a trade deal. it is a bipartisan trade deal. it is a message to every other country around the world that the united states is going to be a tough trading partner to be able to get into negotiations. but at the end of it, we want to get into an actual trade deal and to get something signed and done. my conversati

chief justice, i send a question to the desk for myself and senator langford. the question from senator ernst and langford is for the counsel for the president. members of the house permanent select committee on intelligence of which manager schiff sits as the chairman conducted a number of depositions related to the impeachment inquiry. one of the individuals they post was intelligence community inspector general, michael atkinson. as the white house provided a copy of that is deposition transcript and do you believe it would be helpful? if so, why? >> mr. chief justice and senator, we have not been provided that the transcript. my understanding is that the inspector general for the community, mr. atkinson testified in executive session and has retained the transcript in executive session. it wasn't transmitted to the judiciary committee and therefore in the term of the house resolution 660 wasn't turned over to the white house counsel so we have not seen it. i just want to clarify we don't think there is any need to start getting into any more evidence or wit

based on a linear fashion model so today about 73 percent of the garment we used to just go into langford's because there is lack of. using the fabrics and the garments that we're currently working with. it was this realization that led critique and due diligence to other founders to address the problem of textile waste in india and set up a design label committed to making fashionable clothing pieces from textile waste or upcycling discarded items it's a concept that has been gaining in popularity in the textile industry all over india as awareness rises. there's always a garment that comes out of what. then are cutting processes there's a lot of that happened so i could obs all of that on board the small scale unit or a lot there is so much that has been produced and that exists it's about time that we start thinking about using what their. garment waste is not the only problem in india the textile industry is a major polluter in india the 3rd biggest after plastic and paper. for india it's not just the garment with that we have to be concerned about it's the production waste that we have

. >>> the question from senator langford and the other senators is for the counsel for the president. house managers have described any delay in military aid and state department funds to ukraine in 2019 as a cause to believe there was a secret scheme or quid pro quo by the president. in 2019 86% of the d.o.d. funds were obligated to ukraine in september, when in 2018 of 67% of the funds were obligated in september, in 2017, 73% of the funds were obligated in september. in the state department the funds were obligated september 30 in 201 but obligated september 28 in 2018. each day the funds were obligated in the final days of the month of the fiscal year. was there a national security risk from the funds going out at the end of september in the two previous years. did it weaken our relationship with ukraine because the vast majority of our aid was released in september each of the last three years? thank you for that question. and the short, straight forward answer is there was no jeopardy to the national security interest of the united states from the timing of the release of this m

. >> please hold on we have senator langford. >> one of the most remarkable moments of the entire day was when adam schiff said republicans have been told their head will be on the pike if the republicans vote against him. that is completely totally false. where did that story come from and he just kept saying it over and over as if it is true. that's the story of the entire three days of this invented story weaving through with all this fiction. and then cap it off to say all these republicans live in fear their head will be on a pike. not true. none of us a been told that by the president or no implication at all perk i was visibly upset that. the whole room was visibly upset that somehow demeaning of everyone that we live in fear the president has threatened us to put her head on a pike perk i don't even understand he comes up with that but it was just another false weird motives and motivations that they weaved wet one - - the last three days. . . . . they are afraid to do the right thing. [inaudible] the fact that when adam schiff said that about the spike the head on the spike t

the question from senator ernst and langford is for the counsel for the

senator langford had an idea that if it's possible to go look at the portions of the transcript referred to in "the news york times" article, go see it for yourself or that's probably a good idea and maybe that's not possible. there is a line of thought that constraint affects most favorable to the government that is not an impeachable offense but if you get into witness land we will expand of record in a couple of areas. the house refused to allow the record records include any evidence of corruption of hunter biden and the bidens vice president time in ukraine but i promise you that will be corrected. why is it relevant? the president had a reasonable belief that somebody should look at what happened when the bidens in ukraine that it wasn't for personal gain and the manager said there's not as intel of evidence and i would say there's a tsunami of evidence that would go to that point. there are some media reports about the dnc staffer talking to ukrainian officials. i don't know if it's true but he would go down that road so the idea that you just called one witness is not remotely po

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. >> reporter: republican senator james langford says the house now can't fault the senate for moving quickly. more evidence is this video first obtained by abc news. sources say it's from a private dinner at the trump international hotel in washington back in april 2018. the president's there. so is his son don jr. as well as indicted giuliani associate lev parnas. among other subjects, they can be heard discussing ukraine in detail. >> reporter: david wright, abc news, the white house. >>> sonoma county has started moving encampment residents to a new temporary shelter. county workers helped the first ten people move their belongings from the gigantic trail encampment to a new 60-person camp located in the loss gilcos area of the county. >> they're allowed to take two large bins with them to the new site. i think that is going to be up to everyone to kind of just decide what stays and what goes. >> an individual shelter. it'll protect against the cold elements. there is the heater inside. there is a light. it's single occupancy. >> reporter: conditions along the trail have deteriora

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senator langford has suggested that maybe the manuscript should be available in a classified settings and let senators read it for themselves. that sounds like a reasonable solution to me however, if people want witnesses we will get a lot of witnesses and this idea of calling more makes zero sense to me. what i would say is that there is not a scintilla of evidence that the bidens connection to ukraine was inappropriate and there is -- of evidence so the house managers told the senate this is baseless and has been been debunked. i think the defense team yesterday made a damning indictment for the hunter and joe biden what they allowed to happen and it's not an american interest to ever see this happen again in the ukraine where hunter biden basically turned it into an atm machine but we will go to that and there is media reports that have suggested dnc staffer met with ukrainian officials about 2015 election. i don't know if that is true or not but if we will open this up to additional inquiry we will go down the road with a legitimate for the president to believe there was corruptio

. >> i send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, senator mccaskill, mike sally rather, langford. [laughter] that was a terrifying moment on behalf of myself, mike sally, gardner, tempo and wicker, this is a question for the president's counsel. >> thank you the question is for the counsel for the president. what does a super majority threshold for conviction in the senate crated by the framers say about the type of case that should be brought by the house and the standard of proof that should be considered in the senate. >> there were several debates among the framers of course should you have impeachment no, we talked about that and what the criteria should be. there was another debate, who should have the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether the president should be removed. james mattis suggested the supreme court of the united states as a completely nonpartisan institution. alexander hamilton was concerned about the issue as well but he said the supreme court would be inappropriate because the judicial branch should not become involved directly as a branch okay to pre

senator langford this morning. this is a trump defender on abc about the idea of having witnesses. take a listen. >> why not hear from the witnesses? >> the same reason they didn't want to hear from the witnesses, they made an initial push to say would you come. they said yes, if you'll subpoena us, if you go through the courts like a normal process. the house said no, we're not going to do that. >> let's go to marissa kumar, they're working themselves into a we don't need witnesses because -- is that smart for these republican senators? >> if you don't have anything to hide, you would call every single witness to make sure you're cleared. that's basic. if someone accuses you of stealing a piece of gum and you have allies to say it wasn't me, you would bring everyone forward. that's basics for a 5-year-old. the vintages of giuliani, vintages of graham, vintages of dershowitz of the 1990s, i wish they would bring those back so they could honor the truth. the reason the president decided three of his star defense attorneys were going to be part of the dotted line of the fox media mac

here is what senator langford said when chris math yusz asked him essentially if it was appropriate forabout the biden conversation about the former vice president and his son working for burisma? why do you think the president of the united states was focusing on a fellow american politician? >> i think because rudy giuliani was working on the campaign side was focused on that and rudy giuliani was keeping him informed on that. he has a campaign arm that's out there that's rudy giuliani, and other campaign folks that can do opposition research no matter where it is just like the dnc hired a british citizen, steele, to be able to do an investigation into russia. >> joining our discussion is pulitzer prize-winning syndicated columnist for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst george well. thank you very much for joining us. the reason i wanted to play senator langford is that's the first time i think i've heard a senator certainly this week offer a senator's view of the phone call. and there's senator langford saying he sees nothing wrong with it, including the idea that rudy

langford. >> as the senators sign this document, they're being called by alphabetical order. joan biskupic, what are they signing here exactly? >> they're signing what's officially called the oath book, and every single senator rising from his chair and her chair will come up there and sign this, and that was done in 1999 and it was done back in 1868. this is part -- this is when i said a very scripted affair, and today is mostly script and ceremony as opposed to what's going to happen next week and beyond. but this is where they all come up and, you know, they'll take their oaths as the chief administered it, and just attest to be impartial. >> you know, the interesting thing here is also as our great ted barrett up on the hill points out, that these senators unlike in 1999 where when they signed it they each kept their pen, they are all signing with one pen, and that is because mitch mcconnell really criticized nancy pelosi for handing out pens yesterday, so even on an issue as small as do you keep your pen, they have had disagreement, and so they are not doing it today. >>

but when you look at the sasses, the portmans, the langfords, people who have stood on principle at other times, some of those people are long gone who stood on principle particularly against trump. is there any next 24 hours, probably not even 24 hours left of this, but is there some opportunity in the next 12 to 18 hours for someone to decide to make a difference? >> i mean, there absolutely is enough time. the question is whether they have the courage to do so. and i think that there is both a moral imperative to do so. i think there is also a political imperative for republicans in the white house to do so. >> you're not going to take down donald trump. you call witnesses, generally speaking, it's a fair bet you're not going to take down donald trump. >> which is a wild thing to concede. moving on. >> no hope for sure. as joyce was saying, he wants to go into the state of the union to be able to say that he has been exonerated. but he cannot say that and no one is going to believe it because an acquittal, when you don't have a firsthand witness who is basically knocking on the senate

. >> we saw hakeem jeffries, senator langford. one of the jurors, richard blumenthal of connecticut. minority leader schumer said at least at this point it seems likely there won't be witnesses. do you think that's right? >> still an uphill battle to get witnesses. i feel those kinds of questions that we saw from the moderates, when was the hold put on? it couldn't be answered because we don't have witnesses who could testify to it or documents. black and white. the documents don't lie, that the american people deserve to see. thatis the evidence basic to any trial and any moderate really, any juror would demand that kind of evidence. and very striking. those were only a couple of the questions that couldn't adequately be answered based on this record because of the defiance. the blanket of those documents. not just now but repeatedly in the past, in the course of this investigation. and my republican colleagues can't complain about not seeing anything. if they put blinders on and history will haunt them. republicans to republican

question from senator sullivan and langford did the counsel of the president.re has been conflicting testimony about how long the senate might be tied up in obtaining additional evidence. at the beginning of this trial, the minority leader offered 11 amendments to obtain additional evidence in the form of documents and depositions from several federal agencies. if the senate had adopted all 11 of these amendments, how long do you think impeachment trial would take? >> mr. chief justice, members of the senate, it would take a long time. a long time just to get through those motions. but there have been 17 witnesses. we are talking about now additional witnesses. that the managers have put forward and democratic leader schumer has discussed. talked as if this body, if it were to grant witnesses, would say, yes, you get those four witnesses and the white house and the president's counsel gets what? whatever i want, that's what mr. schumer. whatever i want? here's what i want. i want adam schiff. i want hunter biden. i want joe biden. i want the whistle-blower. i w

we heard that from senator langford from oklahoma, we heard from stephanie grisham on fox news. have a listen. >> people put meanings behind what he says. the president speaks in a very unique way. he's very, very -- he's a counterpuncher, saying what's on his mind. >> what does he mean, schiff has not paid the price? >> i haven't talked to him today. i think he hasn't yet paid the price with the voters. >> so intentionally am big wows seems to be the wash word, the line from the white house. this seems to be a fight within the fight, when we look at the days unfolded, last 24 hours, new tapes. now we have the president going offense targeting adam schiff. you have schiff going back and forth. the braushd questioning is, what's going to be happening next week in terms of new witnesses and a potential timeline for acquittal or a final vote. now, house democrats seem to be suggesting they're not quite certain that they have enough votes for four republican senators to come over and join them. but at the same time, there are -- i don't want to call it evidence but this new material

. >> leet gt's get straight to da bash on capitol hill with senator langford, republican from oklahoma senate should handle this bolton manuscript. dana? >> thank you, senator, for joining me. tell me about your proposal on specifically dealing with the bolton manuscript? >> the "new york times" doesn't know the bolt on manuscript. someone who has read it told the "new york times" about it and we're getting bits and pieces. there are things brought up by the counsel, and facts have come to bear those out. what we don't know is about the manuscript and what the details are. it's going through the classified process to take out anything that is classified and needs to be taken out. i would recommend the white house turn it over, put it through one of the skiffs, and we can read all of it and see for ourselves if there is anything significant there. >> and the white house specif, y specifically the dnc, which is where it lives, they're open to that? >> i don't know. we need to resolve in the next couple days if we need witnesses for that. we can't say six weeks from now we need to be able

. >> question to the desk on behalf of myself and senators holly, cruz, perdue, gardener, langford, hoven, scott of florida, portman and fisher. >> thank you. excuse me. the question from senator loeffler and the other senators is for the counsel for the president. as reported by politico, quote, in january 1999, then senator joe biden argued strongly against deposing additional witnesses or seeking new evidence in a memo sent to fellow democrats ahead of -- excuse me -- of bill clinton's impeachment trial, end quote. politico reports that senator schumer agreed with biden. why should the biden rule not apply here? >> mr. chief justice, members of the senate, in a memorandum dated january 5th, 1999, that is captioned arguments in support of summary impeachment trial, senator biden discussed some history first regarding two senate impeachment proceedings that were put forward in the senate that were summarily decided. this is what he said. these two cases demonstrate that the senate may dismiss articles of impeachment without holding a full trial or taking any evidence. put another way, th

langford. mr. lahey. mr. lee. mrs. leffler. mr. markey. mr. mcconnell. ms. nick salley. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. ms. makowski. mr. murphy. mrs. mary. mr. paul. mr. purdue. mr. peters. mr. portman. mr. reid. mr. risch. mr. roberts. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. brown's. mr. rubio mr. sanders. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. cinema. ms. smith. misstep now. mr. sullivan. mr. castro. mr. tillis. mr. udall. mr. van holland. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. white house. mr. ricker. mr. wyden. mr. young. >> and there you have the votes. we did not hear any crossover votes there. this is on the motion by the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to table or set aside the senator schumer amendment for documents. he already has an amendment, a second moment in the pipeline ready to go for witnesses and state department documents. at this photo -- we hear anything. anyone who it was expected to cross over it like it romney, collins, murkowski. this will go along party lines. >> there are going to be a number of amendme

langford. >> aye. >> mr. leahy. >> mr. lee. >> aye. >> ms. loeffler mr. mcconnell? >> aye. >> ms. mcsally. >> aye. >> good wednesday morning to you. you. i am ali velshi in our coverage of the impeachment trial of president trump continues as we watch a roll call vote, a tally in the senate on an amendment that has been presented by minority leader chuck schumer. this is eight amendments up, eight amendments tabled. and that is at least the expectation we will get in moments from now when the tally is announced. every vote has gone along party lines, 53-47 for the course of the day. this is probably we assume the last amendment for the night, but things have gone longer than expected. i want to bring our panel in while we wait for this count. joining me now jonathan alter. jonathan

. >> we're seeing house managers and hakeem jeffries, congressman nadler leaving earlier, langford. phil mattingly joining us. blumenthal of connecticut. schumer sa minority leader schumer said there may not be witnesses. do you think he's right? >> still an uphill battle to get witnesses. i feel those kinds of questions we saw today from the moderates, when was the hold put on this aid? when was interest first expressed about biden? couldn't be answered because we don't have witnesses who could testify to it or documents, black and white, and the documents don't lie. the american people deserve to see. that's the kind of evidence that is basic to any trial. and i think any moderate, really any juror would demand that kind of evidence and very strikingly those two questions were only a couple of the questions that couldn't really be adequately answered based on this record because of the defiance, the blanket blocking of those documents, not just now, but repeatedly in the past in the course of this investigation. and my republican colleagues can't complain about not seeing anything

langford. no. mr. lahey. aye. mr. lee. no. mrs. leffler. no. mr. mansion. aye. mr. markey. aye. mr.. miss mick sally. no. mr. menendez. aye. mr. merkley. no. ms. murkowski. no. mr. murphy. aye. mrs. murray. aye. mr. paul. no. mr. purdue. no. mr. peters. aye. mr. portman. no. mr. reid. aye. mr. rich. no. mr. roberts. no. mr. romney. aye. ms. rosen. aye. >> emily: what you are seeing there is the senate voting on impeachment witnesses. let's go to chad pergram right now. you speak of this is where they to cut standard roll call vote. this was the seminal vote we have been hearing about. a gateway vote about whether or not they would open the door to call witnesses or not. this is a pretty important vote. susan collins from maine and mitt romney from utah, republicans last night announcing they would vote for witnesses. lamar alexander, republican from tennessee last night saying he would oppose it and lisa murkowski saying this morning that she would oppose it. we expect this to go down. what is unclear after this, the senate is going to take a recess according to the senate majority

. >> some senate republicans like james langford, they've been saying that they have, quote, got to be able to see john bolton's book manuscript before they vote on whether to include witnesses in the trial. does that make sense to you? is that something you would be open to? >> no, it does not. these are people who want the trial to go on. i mean-y do we want to read a book as opposed to talking to the witness under oath who can be cross-examined? i mean, the book is -- we can't cross-examine the book. i find this totally strange. >> alan dershowitz in his defense of the president said that even if what john bolton said is true it's not an impeachable offense. >> the basis on which alan dershowitz came to that conclusion is mystifying to me because to make a case for abuse of power, which is what the president did in pressuring the ukrainian president to do his political bidding, that's an abuse of power. and for alan dershowitz to come up with this very unusual theory that i don't know any other professor of constitutional law come out and say. so he's sort of in a minority of one. b

. >> question from senator sullivan and langford. to the counsel for the president.as been conflicting testimony about how long the senate might be tied up in obtaining additional evidence. at the beginning of this trial, the minority leader offered 11 amendments to obtain additional evidence in the form of documents and depositions from several federal agencies. if the senate had adopted all 11 of these amendments, how long do you think this impeachment trial would take? >> mr. chief justice, members of the senate, it would take a long time. it would take a long time just to get through those motions. but there have been 17 witnesses. we're talking about now additional witnesses. that the managers would put forward and democratic leader schumer's discussed four witnesses in particular, as if this body, if it were to grant witnesses work, say, yes, you get those four witnesses and the white house and the president's counsel gets what? whatever i want. that's what he said, mr. schumer, whatever i want. here's what i want. i want adam schiff. i want hunter biden. i wan

. >> a big discussion in the hallways yesterday and this morning was senator langford's idea to brington manuscript to capitol hill. we have been talking to experts who have been saying, wait a minute, that might not even be allowed. how can the president and white house even be allowed to give over a manuscript that maybe is protected by executive privilege. you're an attorney, what do you think? >> well, i think the president's attorneys have already argued this is inadmissible. and the reason it would be inadmissible is because the best testimony is to bring the live witness. and so that's what we should be doing. clearly if they're arguing over and over again that we haven't heard firsthand the president doing what they say he's doing here, which is really awful, the two witnesses, mulvaney and bolton, talked to him every day. they know what he was doing in these circumstances. >> senator, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> thank you. you bet. >> wolf and jake, back to you. >> you know, it's interesting, jake, that probably at least two, maybe thre

senator james langford. kelly loveller. martha mcsally. tim scott. he said just read the crypt.with. >> in the senate chamber john bolton remains the man of the hour. the number one witness on the democrats' list with republicans under enormous pressure to vote him down. his allegations from his upcoming book that trump told him that the freeze on military aid to the ukraine was indeed linked to the investigations of all things biden have rocked the impeachment trial. today trump has been lashing out at bolton starting just after midnight this morning there was this. why didn't john bolton complain about this nonsense a long time ago when he was very publicly terminated? he said, not that it matters, nothing. then a few hours later, "if i listened to him, we would be in world war 6 by now." he accused him of writing a nasty and untrue book. soon after that and out loud trump's ally lindsey graham issued a statement with what seemed to be a veiled warning for the president writing in part, "i am concerned when john bolton's credibility is attacked. it makes it more likely some wi

host: senator langford yesterday. alex bolton covered the senate for many years.his is his piece in "the hill.com." "senate republicans face pivotal moment on impeachment witnesses. read the story on twitter. mark says this, there should be witnesses in the senate. biden sup a whistleblower, the ukraine president. the senate should give the same respect house gave republicans. take a from south carolina says, "let's hear from the whistleblower started the mess to begin, with what is being hidden." from chris in birmingham, alabama, even with the lev parnas and bolton information, senators are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to have their alternative fact from a false narrative. we go to clarksville georgia next and hear from dominic. good morning. caller: yeah, hi. no matter what you think of president trump, i want to talk about the biden affair this is endemic of low-grade corruption that has existed in the world in past history, and it is going on in the world toay, from china to europe africa to all over the place. these people have been making sucker

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. ♪ more than this >>> with us now is senator james langford, republican from the great state of oklahoma thank you for joining us. i first of all want to hear how you reacted when mr. sekulow just gently started to raise that russian false flag of ukrainian influence in our election in the well of the senate today? >> it was interesting. he made a pretty clear statement of saying everyone is trying to make this argument on the house democrat side saying you believe russia did it or you believe ukraine did it, but there is a sense that was there all the influence in russia? yes, there was a tremendous amount of influence to russia. were there some individuals in ukraine involved, yes. he raised a letter from some members to say let's answer to say there's nothing there. there's nothing inappropriate for the president of the united states to say to a foreign leader, i have my intelligence people saying one thing, someone else saying another, can you help us unpack this. it was interesting to me when the house managers raised this issue of saying the president is trying to help his campaign