the chief justice of the supreme court presiding as house impeachment managers and the president's lega immediately squared off over the trial's rules regarding witnesses and key documents. republicans calling them fair. democrats blasting the republican-drafted road map as a cover-up, but managing to win an early concession from the republican leader. peter alexander starts our coverage >> reporter: tonight president trump is officially on trial. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. >> reporter: both sides, house democrats who will prosecute, and the president's defense team arriving in the capitol, a dramatic scene on the senate floor. all 100 senators, the jurors warned not to speak. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. >> reporter: it follows a bitter clash over the rules mitch mcconnel saying he was following the bill clinton impeachment model that allowed each side 24 hours to make its case. >> the process was good enough for president clinton and basic fairness dictates it ought to be good enough for this

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robert: and the p csident's legae will soon make its own case, as soon as saturday, mounting a defense ohe president's conduct and critique of house democrats. it's a bm tith personalities like former special counsel and hard charging conservatives. >> we're hearinghe same things over and over. we will be putting on a vigorous defense of both fact and rebutting what they've said. our j he is to defend the president, the office of the esidcy and the constitution. we're going to do that. i see nothing that has changed in theowas day and a half of their two and a half days w thhave been going here. abert: carol co-wrote tha crowded and combative legal team isothing new for the president. sekulow adopted a sense of humor to roll with the punches. "welcome to the hotel california, u can check out any time you want, but you can never leave." carol, terrific book.y sekulow, the trump legal orbit right who's in charge? is it alan dershowitz? is it ken starr? pat cipolloney? jay sekulow? carl: i want --w? carol: i want to mention someuling about jay s. his remark about hotel california was base

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so, it is not an acknowledgment in anyway by anyone on the lega, team that the president did anythingrong, that is just not how that brief could possibly be read. >> laura: here is how one of the msnbc contributors characterize trump's legal defense. >> it's what i called the "i did it, so what?" defense. it's may be their best bet for avoiding needing to call witnesses, what they can sayay , hey if we call witnesses, but we do that for? all they will do is tell you what we already are telling you. he did it. he did it. and we don't think it's impeachable. >> laura: robert. >> it silly, we would only be arguing both.. the democrats really is as was pointed out in the president's submission today, they are arguing for an impeachment based upon the president's motives. we don't impeach presidents for motives. >> laura: that's the part of the brief on a motive, it's about subjective intent. and inferring that subjective intent of a president to impeach is something that has never happened. >> not clinton, nixon, johnson, it didn't happen. >> that's not sufficient as a matter of law, as a

>>the senatwill now hear you senators back on capitol hill as president trump's lega team ctinues openingnts tht the president was all timeacting under his constitutional authority. under his legal authority. in pursuant to his oath of office as they lay out theicase new revelation. the new york times reporting citing multiple sources that a draft of his upcoming book john bolton and writes president trump wanted to continue withholding military aid to ukraine untithe country into democrats including the bidens it blast another hole in the president's defense at the democratssing the manuscript information to former national security adviser and others to testify a few republicans reeing it's a increaingly likely that other replicanswill join those of us who think we should hear from john bolton. sure about just cut to the chase it down it really doesn't change anything in terms of the process. but it is unclear how many repubcans will continue to and by the president who denies the accusations i can tell you. >>that was karin caifa reporting from shington dc new details in the trial of t

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>>president trump at a rally new jersey just hours after his lega team concluded opening arguments in his impeachment trial well we are creating jobs and killing terrists. >>the congressiol democrats are of says with demented hoaxes crazy witch-hunts. >>thesident's lawyers making an appeal to senators acquit him and questioning the motives of e house impeachment managers you're being asked to remove a duly elected president of the united states you're bein asked tdo it. in an ection year journey. the trial w moves into a question-and-answer and senators are there qustions must be in wring. will be submitted to the chief justice both parties strategizi how to use that time and also how tohandle the questi of witnesses in particular for democrats, former national security adviser john bolt, there is no substitute. >>for a witss speaking under oath. to the senators. >>a leak draft of an upcoming book bible saysrump ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine until thecountry vice presidenjoe biden some republicans say onewitness could lead to many more we've heard dozens of witnesses, hund

is that going to be sufficient forhe president's lega team to come back and basically dismiss the wholeng without goingt down, po by point,what the managers have alleged? >> i do agree with the white housposition that the articles are fatally flawed on their face, because they allege no crime whatsoever, much less a high crime or high misdemeanor one thing i think the prident's lawyers need to keep in mind, and maybe they will, is thate they need to do man simply present lawyerly arguments to other lawyers, and to keep in mind that what really will sway people here in the broadest sense is very effective demonstrative evidence. for example, when a huse manager e again, i think i have been successful at using demotrative evidence to buttress their case. barr, former house manager in the clinton impeacent trial, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. judy: joining me in the studio, our analysts who have been here r coverage of the senate trial all day, martin was the democraticenate secretariat for 13 years including during president clinton's impeachment trial. elizabehashe republican

communicate with members of congress, and in this case, my recollection is that they were tech ninical and legaus from cooperating with congress. so instead to cooperate and seek to comply, and now they are back pedalling. and senators, there was no valid technical and legal arguments and none were put forth to justify the stonewalling of the impeachment inquiry and the documents that president trump are withhold iing are responsiv and in furtherance of the president's scheme. here is a sampling of the documents that we know that exist that are currently being withheld. national security adviser john bolton's notes, ambassador's cables, and emails of the omb and other agencies about the president's directive to place a hold on the ukraine military aid and the hundreds of heavily redacted documents that the administration now turned over to third parties under foia court orders. certainly the documents released pursuant to the foia lawsuits were not subject to any claims of privilege or confidentiality or burden. yet the administration released them publicly. by contrast, the president turned th