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massachusetts senator ed markey will join us. he was in that briefing with the trump administration officials yesterday about iran, the one about the briefing about which one republican senator said was absolutely insane. that was the republican senator's description of it, it was the worst briefing that that republican senator had ever seen. we'll get ed markey's description of that briefing. and we'll ask senator markey if he thinks enough republicans will vote to subpoena john bolton to testify in the senate impeachment trial. today nancy pelosi divided her public comments about equally between what she called the two is, iran and impeachment. once again tonight, the articles of impeachment will spend the night in the house of representatives in the custody of speaker nancy pelosi. here is what she said today about why she has not sent the articles of impeachment against president trump to the united states senate for trial. >> no, i'm not holding them indefinitely. i will send them over when i'm ready. and that will probably

markey: i thank you, madam president. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that omar ba sheer, a legislative fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. markey: thank you, madam president, very much. madam president, members of the senate, i rise first to express my great concern over president trump's recent actions and words that have brought us to the brink of an unauthorized war with iran. today i am introducing a resolution with senator warren and senators leahy and reed and booker and wyden that's very simple, because on saturday president trump tweeted that his administration is targeting 52 sites, some of which are cultural sites treasured by the iranian people. my resolution is very simple. it says that attacks on cultural sites in iran are war crimes. it's as straightforward as that. the president would compound the mistake which he has made and turn it into something that could be catastrophic for that region, for our coun

senator ed markey, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. thank you for having me on. >>> up next, a look at the new e addition s to the trump legal team including the return of ken starr and alan dershowitz, and also some omissions. why are some of the most ardent defenders apparently not on the trump legal team? a clear plan for retirement to help cover the essentials, as well as all the things you want to do. because when you have whoat every step,rity there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. because when you have whoat every step,rity dthen you have a reasons to go to jackson hewitt today. you could get up to $3,200 the day you file with an express no fee refund advance loan. that's money fast. like, today fast. don't wait weeks. go to jackson hewitt today. americans come to lendingtree.com to compare and save on loans, credit cards and more! but with the new lending tree app you can see your full financial health, monitor your credit score, see your cash flow and find out how you can cut your monthly bills. download it now to se

>> senator ed markey's office has already submitted at least 11 questions. he joins us now.hanks for taking the time this morning. >> good morning. >> you submitted 11 questions. can you give us a sense of what questions you're pressing on? >> well, one question that i want to have answered is in response to a tweet that donald trump put out that said that john bolton was never asked by the house impeachment managers to even testify, which is completely false. they did. and so i want to ask the house managers that question. did you ask john bolton to testify? and they'll answer, i think affirmatively and then explain that he then did not want to testify. he rejected that and said he'd fight that. he's now changed. he now wants to testify but donald trump has put out a whole series of lies on so many different questions and that's just one of them that needs clarification on the floor of the senate. >> that would get to the obstruction charge. let's ask about something that just happened this morning. your fellow democrat, senator joe manchin of west virginia, who really has

>> i think they're very afraid of me. >> joining me now is ed markey.so sits on the foreign relations committee. i'm wondering what you make of parnas saying president trump knew exactly what was going on. he's also -- though, he has no direct evidence of the vice-president, he believes pence would have known as well, as well as mulvaney and bolton and others. i'm wondering what you make of his allegations. >> well, he's only saying what ambassador sondland said, that everyone was in the loop. everyone knew. everyone was completely and totally aware of the fact that the president was withholding $391 million worth of american taxpayer money in order to extort an investigation of the biden family. so it's very consistent with everything we've heard up until now, but we are very close now to the source because of the relationship which mr. parnas has with giuliani, and so we know that he was integral to pulling off this caper. and if he's willing to testify, then that's a powerful corroboration of the central charges against the president of the united st

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we will talk about that with senator markey and former senator and defense secretary chuck hagel, and correspondents and analysts also standing by. first, straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, the week after the killing of the top general, the president and the team are still trying to justify it. >> that is right, wolf. the trump administration is still trying to get the story straight about the threat about the killing of question sem soleimani. one day that it was said that he tried to blow up one embassy and then it was shifted to four embassies, and then top officials are claiming that soleimani was an imminent threat to america, and yet they could not say when or where an attack might occur and the kind of to details that are normally critical to describing something as imminent. >> reporter: still in search of the justification for taking out iranian general qassem soleimani, now, the justice department says that he was planning to attack multiple embassies. >> i can reveal it is four embassies. >> reporter: that is more

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local mayor state level thing or can the federal government can a green new deal can i say in ed markey new deal help across america i think the assumption that the federal government is going to continue to be a competent and effectual management system for this part of north america may be assuming too much i would say that the trend head is because we're going to have to reload and we're going to have to go down the hierarchy of governance that the federal government is we could expect it to become 0. only more ineffectual more impotent and more incompetence on the side there. the local is ation has become completely toxic if you look at like los angeles or san francisco or the reintroduction of medieval diseases where you have these encampments on the street where the tech giants and the hollywood giants there's a cognitive dissonance going on right there in their backyards is a devolving degrading collapsing economy and a country that they don't seem to think there have any role in having created that mess so we can't even go back to localization because we're going back to the mid

we had the markey bill and electric energy was the sole focus on that bill. we had the mercury rule and epa and clean power plan. we negotiated on those regulatory situations, and waxman-markey was a 17% reduction by 2020. the clean power plan was a 30% reduction by 2032. even more aggressive than the paris agreement. if you look at what's happened since then, we have reduced carbon emissions in the electric utility sector more than any other place in the world and reduced carb emissions from 2005 levels by 27%. the investment in utilities alone have reduced it by 37%. that's a fairly substantial accomplishment. how did we do that? we increased the use of natural gas that's been a substantial thing, and i want to give a shout-out to natural gas, too. we did increase renewables a great deal. and the nuclear plants. the combination have given us a situation we have 24/7 reliability and dispatchability and we have messaged to reduce carbon emissions in a big way and as maria pointed out, about a third of emissions are carbon-free. to go from where we are to wher

joining us now is democratic senator ed markey from massachusetts. deliver to you a piece of news this morning. cnn has just learned from sources close to the president's defense team that they intend to present for just two more hours today. two more hours, and then they'll be finished. is it your understanding at that point you go straight to questions? what do you think happens after that? >> that would have to be something which was determined by a conversation with mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer. but if that is the case, then i think we would be ready to proceed. but i would leave it to that conversation to determine what exactly the schedule would be. >> the president's defense team largely ignored the news in the fourth coming bolton book. big news because it gets to the heart of the case in the articles of impeachment. the president abused his power to investigate a political rival. they ignored it until the end of the day when alan dershowitz says, even if everything john bolton says is trurks it's not an abuse of power. what's your take

obviously, i think senator markey said it right, you should test his credibility like anyone else.he have a story to tell? >> what do you you make of lev parnas? >> yeah, i think if you take a step back from everything he is saying, he has this very calm demeanor. i agree with jeffrey. it's a really crazy story, but as the familiar story. it is something if you watch the hearings, you know, in the house judiciary committee and intel committee, it's a familiar story, there are other people saying a lot of the same kind of things. so i think the fact that he is saying, you know, this was absolutely a the president was leading this whole effort knew about it. the fact that it was always about 2020. he said to you that everybody knew that, everybody knew that this was about 2020. again, i think it's pretty consistent with a lot of things that we've already heard and then you add in this letter that's been released of guiliani representing to you know the president of the ukraine, i'm here in my personal capacity, which also undermines this idea that a lot of republicans were saying it

, one of the people who will serve as a juror in trump's impeachment trial, democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts. what do you make of that reporting about the possibility of some of your colleagues on the republican side voting to allow witnesses? >> well, you know, thus far i've been hopeful but not optimistic that we can find four republicans who will break with the president so that they join with the 47 democrats so we have a majority to hear the witnesses, to get access to the documents which we need to have a full and fair trial. so this is a new development. perhaps we will have enough republicans who stand up to the president, but i'm going to wait to see if it actually does happen because it is going to require a lot of courage on the part of these senators to break with the president and to ensure that we have the witnesses which can cast direct light on what the president knew and when he knew it about this withholding of money from the ukraine in return for an investigation of the biden family. >> speaking of an investigation into the biden family, new reporting now

. >> joining us now is ed markey of massachusetts. senator, here is a question i haven't asked you before. who do you agree with, mike lee or marco rubio? >> you know, actually it is a good day for america when you can ask that kind of a question, when the republican party is actually having a debate over a trump policy. so, you know, i attended the same briefing that senator lee did, a frustrating, you know, session where information was grudgingly being dispensed by the cabinet officials of donald trump. and it was almost a tag team where each one of the senators who was asking a question was trying to elicit another small morsel of information from them. and then what they announced after 75 minutes like it was a game show, time's up. we're sorry. we don't have any more time for you to continue to try to get us to give you the specifics of what the imminent threat was to the country, what the targets were, how many days or weeks we really thought would elapse before it would happen. and, so, at the end of that session, you could ju

i'm joined by massachusetts democratic senator ed markey. he also serves on the foreign relations committee. we appreciate you taking the time. >> thank you. >> so the emerging argument from republicans behind closed doors but also in public is that to call witnesses would somehow challenge executive privilege, weaken the office of the president for some time to come. what's your response to that argument? >> well, my answer would be that the president would then say you can't investigate me. you can't indict me. you can't impeach me. that i'm immune. that i can do whatever i want. and that the congress is powerless. no matter how great the abuse of power that i engage in as a president, cannot, in fact, be called into question by the united states congress which, of course, is a complete and total upside down interpretation of the united states constitution. we are supposed to be the checkup on him. we are the ones who are to ensure he's not a monarch, that he cannot act in a way that is not accountable to the american people. it's a crazy

markey: mr. president, i ask for a vitiation of the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. markey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise in support of s.j. resolution 68, to prevent an unnecessary and unauthorized war against iran. i thank my friend from virginia, senator kaine, as well as senators dick durbin, rand paul and senator lee for standing up for our laws and the constitution, which gives congress, not the president, to make war and to authorize the use of military force. mr. president, the assassination of iranian general soleimani was a massive, deliberate, and dangerous escalation with iran by donald trump. rather than deterring new attacks on american interest, as the administration insists, soleimani's assassination invited them, and they came in the form of airstrikes on u.s. air bases in iraq. but instead of sharing with congress and the american people information and intelligence to justify the soleimani attack, president trump and his counselors have deflected, fabricated and just plain refused to t

senator ed markey said to me you're building an army, make it big. we need -- they need the pressure from the outside to force them to do what's right. so come on, folks. do it. we've got to organize. you know, maybe some of you heard of anthony lezerwitz, the scientist at yale, he's quite well known. he told me that 43 million americans would do something about climate change, but nobody asked them. so we have to talk about it. even -- even with uncle bob at christmas dinner, because maybe he voted for trump but he probably has grandkids. find a way in to people's hearts so that they will feel that they have a responsibility to do something. we have to talk about it. >> but we don't seem to have in our culture, like there might have been a few decades ago, the culture of marching in the streets. what do you think has changed? >> where were you the day after trump's inauguration? >> i was at work. >> you were at work with your head in the sand? didn't you watch tv? there were over a million women in the streets. california, 750,000 men and women and

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impeached from last month from charges of abuse of power and obstructing congress democratic congressman markey jeffries hinted at the part of strategy his party will pursue when it presents its case against trump in the senate. we're going to keep the focus. on the stunning corrupt abuse of power engaged in by donna. to pressure the foreign government to target an american citizen for political game. at the same time withheld without justification $391000000.00 in military aid to a vulnerable crame as part of a geo political shakedown scheme. venezuela's president has invited international organizations to observe how the country elected its national assembly pro-government supporters have gathered in the capital in support of nicolas maduro who's given his annual state of the union speech his comments are in reference to an ongoing feud between him and opposition leader on going door just over a week ago the government forcibly installed its preferred candidate as speaker of the national assembly instead of quiet oh who was blocked from entering parliament . i mean. we invite the european uni

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that's a very markey -- market oriented approach.ed states the chance to sell you goods and services and technology and energy and agriculture and so forth, and we will beat the pants off of everybody. we will outcompete. give us a chance to do that. that is free in a president's best. i acknowledge your point. those are not so much government management as they are targets. that's the way it was always intended to be. hopefully they are realistic targets. you know, if we can get those exports in the next year or the year after that, that's a big growth factor for the united states. that's a huge growth factor. china wants them. they are willing to import. consumers need it. energy came up in the luncheon. they specifically said, we need coal and natural gas lng. both sides are going to win on this. jonathan: phase two has become phase to a -- two a. is that a fair assessment? >> it is not. the president has been vocal on this. his belief is that phase one was the toughest while the climb. -- wall the climb. once that structure was p

it's on behalf of senator markey and myself. >> the question is as follows, supreme court justice byronwhite in a concurring opinion in nixon versus united states, 1993 acknowledge the senate, quote, has wide discretion in specifying impeachment requirement procedures and state the senate would abuse its discretion, end quote, if it were to quote, insist on a procedure that could be a trial of judge and if it doesn't allow for additional evidence and tm of key witnesses with first-hand knowledge of president trump's actions an intentions would it constitute a constitutionally fair trial? >> i think the answer is yes. i don't know we need to look to the words of a prior justice to tell us that a trial without witnesses is not really a trial. it's certainly not a fair trial if the house moves forward with impeachment and comes before the senate and wants to call witnesses and wants to make its case thou shalt not call witnesses. that's not a fair trial. i think the american people understand that without reading the case law. they go to jury duty themselves every year. they see the first

markey, mr. mcconnell, miss mcsally, mr. menendez. mr. merkley, mr. moran, miss murkowski, mr. murphy. mrs. murray, mr. paul, mr. perdue, mr. peters. mr. portman, mr. reed, mr. risch, mr. roberts. mr. romney, miss rosen, mr. rounds, mr. rubio. mr. sanders, mr. sasse, mr. schatz, mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida, mr. scott of south carolina, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby. ms. sinema, ms. smith, miss stabenow, mr. sullivan. mr. tester, mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. toomey. mr. udall, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, ms. warren. mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> a senator who is not in the senate chamber at the time the oath was administered to the other senators will make that fact known to the chair so that the oath may be administered as soon as possible. >> the sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, p

. >> i asked senator markey in the last hour, let me ask you -- in order to get those four witnesses, you also have to include, say, hunter biden, would you vote for that kind of resolution? interestingly, my answer depending on what senator mcconnell comes to us to propose. >> what if he says you have the four, but you also have to have witnesses that the president wants. the president repeatedly refers to hunter biden, the whistle-blower, adam schiff. he mentions those potential witnesses all the time. >> hunter biden has no relevant knowledge, but number two, i'm not going to negotiate against myself by talking about hypotheticals here. we have made a proposal to senator mcconnell. he has given us no response, none. he has proposed no rules as yet, none. even his republican colleagues are in the dark. that is unprecedented. in the clinton impeachment trial, rules were discussed on a bipartisan basis. he is taking his cues from the white house, he's allows donald trump to be in charge of his own trial. my republican colleagues will be complicit in that cover-up. they will be aiding

so lawrence o'donnell asked democratic massachusetts senator ed markey, you were in the big briefing on the hill, was this ever mentioned? here's what transpired a few minutes ago on this network. >> we did not hear about blowing up the embassy yesterday in that briefing. and i sat through it from beginning to end. >> so jeremy bash, why on earth would the story change in 24 hours, and why wouldn't you share information like that with the united states senate? >> the fact of the story changes is a red flag. and second, if the president can announce it at a political rally or at a political event in the white house, certainly they could tell the members of congress in a sensitive, compartmented information facility in the basement of the capitol when all members of congress have checked their cell phones at the door, and it's a classified briefing. you've got the chairman, the secretary of defense, the cia director standing there. first of all, the president may be to echo jonathan, he's trying to have it both ways, trying to trickle out details. but -- for political purposes. but he'

is what i'm doing right, is there something else i should be doing, and the wonderful senator ed markeyaid you're building an army, make it big. they need that pressure from the outside. that's always what's changed history. it's what got the new deal pressuring franklin delano roosevelt back in the '30s during the great depression. >> do you feel like -- one question for me i think about the primary and think about the lay of the land particularly as the numbers come out about the paris targets, there's low hanging fruit like get back in paris. actually we need like hundreds of billions of dollars in investment to transform the american economy. do you feel there's enough of a priority around climate being made among your folks that basically share your politics? >> yeah, i think -- i think that's why this is working. i think in the last year with all the bad news, the good news is that peoples awareness that, a, there's 100% agreement among the climate scientists and there's not two sides to this story. two, it's really, really bad. three, it is human cause. and four, we've got to do

maddy and rob and charmaine, and markey in st. louis, >>> good sunday morning. it is january 19th. gorgeous out there. very cold, though. or chilly. depends how you look at it. thanks for joining us. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana has a look at our microclimate forecast. i guess for the 49ers fans it might be cold out but for the green bay packers fans visiting it might be -- >> perfect weather. >> -- it might be nice. >> one of the days that you think that what do i wear to the

senator markey's questions for the house managers reads as follows.cently been reported that the russians have hacked the ukrainian natural gas company burisma, presumably looking for information on hunter biden. our intelligence community has warned us that the russians will be interfering in the 2020 election. if donald trump is acquitted of these pending charges, but is later found to have invited russian or other foreign interference in our 2020 election, what recourse will there be for congress under the dershowitz standard for impeachment which requires a president to have committed a statutory crime? >> senator, absolutely no recourse, no recourse whatsoever. if, in fact, it were later to be shown that not only did the russians hack burisma to try to get dirt on the bidens and drip, drip, drip it out as they did in 2016 election, let's say it were found that they did so at the request of the president of the united states. that in one of these meetings that the president had with vladimir putin, whose contents is unknown, that the president of

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 amendments offered. the next one is going to be about bring

i am grateful to senator markey for partnering with me. "the washington post" praised the traced act as an example of, i quote, good, old-fashioned legislating, end quote. and i am proud of the bipartisan support it received from both houses of congress. i look forward to monitoring the implementation of the traced act and continuing to work to protect americans from illegal and abusive robocalls. madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. peters: i ask that i and senator johnson are able to complete our remarks prior to the cloture vote. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. peters: today i rise to speak in opposition to the nomination of paul ray to be the next administrator of the office of information and regulatory affairs, more commonly known as oira. though not many people outside of washington have heard of oira, this office wields an important amount of influence over regulations that impact families and businesses and communities in countless ways.

it won't discuss troop withdrawal with the iraqi government this after iraq's prime minister abdul markey asked the u.s. secretary of state send a delegation to baghdad to discuss the issue mr marty's request follows the assassination of the iraqi politician of madiba hundreds and the iranian commander qassam somali last week now on sunday iraq's parliament voted to expel all u.s. troops from the country. 2 iraqi journalists have been killed in basra in southern iraq thanks to say there's a campaign by armed groups backed by iran to drive them out of the region it comes as protests take place in several iraqi cities a revival of antigovernment rallies which began in october demonstrators also chanted anti us and anti iranian slogans osama bin laden has that story from baghdad. a chorus against those who follow the united states or iran it's they $100.00 foot iraq's pro-democracy demonstrators who've been camping out in multiple cities they say their demands are simple give us rulers who have honor and corruption and foreign influence and hold early elections. out of iraq is not a walk aro

looks like we just saw ed markey walking past one of the cameras -- >> you saw all that while we wereg? >> there's bernie sanders being interviewed by as they say another network. bernie sanders, last seen on the debate stage. situational awareness. it takes nothing away from the conversati conversation. >> the camera we're looking at with bernie this is going right into the chamber from the democratic caucus lunch. the other camera is where the republican caucus lunch is. those two cameras are going to give you all of the senators coming in from their pep talks from their leaders. >> while not at all the reason we have invited you to be part of our coverage, it is very helpful when you point out stuff like that for us and our viewers. it's hard looking at just a picture of a corridor, knowing how many corridors are in that building, to know exactly what we're looking at. if the control room can take the democrats as they're walking past. there is manchin. there is tester. >> that's the lunch room right there. that room is very interesting. there's a great story about that room. that

markey. aye. mr. mcconnell. no. miss mick sally. no. mr. menendez. aye. mr. merkley. no. ms.. 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 leader mitch mcconnell. what happens next? it was pretty clear that mitch mc

. >> tonight, massachusetts senator ed markey said that lev parnas should be a witness. harvard law professor laurence tribe will be joining our discussion tonight. he will argue that the senate must call witnesses in the trump impeachment trial and when laurence tribe speaks, chief justices listen. and not just when professor tribe is arguing a case before the united states supreme court, as he has done countless times. professor tribe taught constitutional law to chief justice john roberts when roberts was a harvard law school student, and professor tribe has written a book about impeachment and so we will, once again, be taking notes when laurence tribe joins us later in this hour. in the last hour rachel once again delivered more of her interview with lev parnas that drove president trump today to deny that he even knows lev parnas. a lie that could not survive if lev parnas is a witness in the impeachment trial of donald john trump. >> my only objective is to get the truth out because i never thought i did anything -- was doing anything wrong. i still -- you know, i

. >> nawazother questions, likese this from democrat ed markey, sought to clary the record. >> so that record is accurate, did house impeachment investigators ask mr. bolton to testify? l >> nawad house manager, adam schiff: >> the answer is yes, of course we askedohn bolton to testify in the house, and he refused. nawaz: like much of trial, today's session unfolded largely along partisan lines.ic repus asked questions of the presidens legal team, and democrats asked questions of the democratic house managers. republican senator ted cruz inquired about quid pro quo.qu >> as a matter of law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo? >> if a president does something which he belves will help him get elected, in theublicin erest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.z: >> naemocrats returned again and again to the undecideo issue of witnesses. this question, from senatorsc chucmer. >> is there a way to render an informed verdict without hearing from these witnesses and seeing documentary evidence? >> there is no way to have a fair trial without witnesses,

question from senator markey to the house managers on monday president trump tweeted the democrat controlled house never even asked john bolton to testify and quote so that the record is accurate did house impeachment investigators ask mr bolton to testify . senators the answer is yes of course we asked john bolton to testify in the house and he refused we asked his deputy dr come from him to testify and he refused fortunately we asked their deputy dr fiona hill to testify and she did we asked her deputy colonel limit to testify and he did but we did seek the testimony of john bolton as well as dr cup women and they refused when we subpoenaed. dr cupper men he sued us took us to court when we raised a subpoena with john bolton's counsel the same counsel for dr couple men the answer was senator you serve us with a subpoena and we will sue you too. we knew based on the mcgann litigation it would take months if not years to force john bolton to come and testify. and i should point out because i think this is an essential point to underscore as the president's lawyers say they didn't try hard en