schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: madam president, i raise a point of order that impeachment article 1 does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor as required under article 2, section 4 of the united states constitution and is therefore unconstitutional. the presiding officer: under the press depths and -- precedents and practices of the senate, the chair has no power or authority to pass on such a point of order. the chair therefore under the precedence of the senate submits the question to the senate. is the point of order well taken? >> this quorum call continues. we're waiting for center speaker you are hearing the roll call of the names of the united states senators as they go through this quorum call, even though there's obviously a quorum on the floor due to earlier productions of impeachment trial. sey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. >> explained we are and why this is a quorum call despite what we heard from senator schumer not too long ago. >> basically to buy time on t

schumer is raising a points of f order the first articles of impeachment is unconstitutional. because it does not allege a high crime or misdemeanor that the standards set by the constitution. patty murray as you just showed says she does not have the power to decide that question she's going to ask for the t senate to vote whether schumer's point of order is invalid. the senate votes to sustain point of order it effectively dismisses she first articles of impeachment. then schumer will report as a point of order a similar point of order gives the second article of impeachment. if that sustained by separate votes, both s the chargers wille dismiss the senate trial will be effectively over. >> this could essentially become a speedier trial than what senator schumer was offering in the original statement he made? >> what schumer offered was to set aside debate time to give republicans an opportunity to to vote on trout resolution sponsored by michael lee and ted cruz to basically either hold a full senate trial or referred to a special committee. as you saw on the floor freshman

schumer.do the right thing, hold the trial, let the chips fall where they may. >> i want to make one point and we were opened up for questions. several have pointed out senator schumer is reaching another nuclear weapon here. -- unleashing -- could you imagine with retaliation by the court could you imagine a day and a time where a republican president, a democrat-controlled house, they impeach the republican president. they send it to a republican-controlled senate, and that senate said we're going to table it. i just think that americans and the national media would lose their minds over it. what we are letting chuck schumer get by with it for whatever reason. let's to questions. >> just to confirm russian speaker johnson has agreed -- two hours ago they were sending them this week. so he's delayed them. how do you get a trial? how do you try to draw schumer -- [inaudible] >> remember, come up to the microphone so they can record abettors. >> articles of impeachment triggers a whole differen

schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: madam president, i raise a point of order that impeachment article 1 does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a

schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: madam president, i raise a point of order that impeachment article 1 does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor as required under article 2, section 4 of the united states constitution and is therefore unconstitutional. the presiding officer: under the press depths and -- precedents and practices of the senate,

senator schumer is going to just dismiss that? not even go to trial because he thinks he has the votes and is politically expedient, isn't that special. every one of you here know that if republicans were doing the same thing, you would be foaming at the mouth. and that is what he's doing. and it's wrong. we are going to do everything we can to stop it. originally he planned to do this on a thursday when everybody is trying to get back to their districts. isn't that special? wonder why he picked a thursday. we asked and i understand the speaker has asked him to delay sending over the articles until monday to at least give four weeks. this is unconscionable. this ranks right up there with getting rid of the filibuster. we even have a united states senate as set up by founders or not and that is what is going on here. >> we all know chuck schumer is playing politics with this. he has members that are very likely going to lose their seat and he does not want them to have to take a vote on this. he also knows the border and lack of bo

schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: madam president, i raise a point of order that impeachment article 1 does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor as required under article 2, section 4 of the united states constitution and is therefore unconstitutional. the presiding officer: under the press depths and -- precedents and practices of the senate, the chair has no power or authority to pass on such a point of order. the chair therefore under the precedence of the senate submits the question to the senate. is the point of order well taken? the republican leader is recognized. clerk will call the roll. snail the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. quorum call: >> host: towards the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, then senator schumer, majority leader, responding about raising the constitutionality of article i. and you'll remember that article i is the refusal to comply with the law, going further saying that house republicans accuse secretary alejandro mayorkas of

senator schumer. this thing is unconstitutional. it's clearly unconstitutional. >> what is the bare minimum you need to see to satisfy how this went before those? >> i on a trial. to consider the evidence and make it a combination they will have that responsibility and by the way, we have all seen that happened. it happened twice the democrats impeached donald trump and with the puppetry analogies. .. constitutional response ability seriously now and i can promise you the next time we see an and impeachment [inaudible] you're not going to see a trial. you're seeing the democrats the race the class of the constitution and that is a serious, serious threat to the rule of law. >> clear in the back. to go straight to a trial or to have -- >> i am proposing we go straight into a trial. senator cruz has a different one that would propose we have it handled by a select committee. i think most of us would prefer the former but either one would satisfy. >> last question. >> the first of that he will uphold one

schumer: mr. president, i move to proceed to executive session -- i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the. the clerk: will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 478, ramona villagomez manglona to be judge for the district court for the northern mariana islands signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 638 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 638 calling for the immediate release of -- united states citizen -- [no audio]. the presiding officer: is there objection

but for senator schumer, he obviously understands them really well. and he's being really careful to try and navigate through those rules to get to the outcome that he wants and it may sound a bit technical and even perhaps boring, but in fact, act they're talking about something that's quite significant and that is whether or not to stop any further consideration of these articles and to begin a process to kill each one of them tim naftali is also with us. >> he's a presidential historian and tim i'm curious to get your perspective on what we're watching unfold and why you think it is so important for republicans like senator schmidt of missouri to have this time to debate and to take a megaphone to their belief that mayorkas should be impeached. >> or rather convicted well, as we seen, play out over the last over the course of the last year and some the republican caucus is broken on capitol hill and senate republicans are trying to work with house republicans to get basic bills passed for example aid to ukraine, aid to israel, and spending for bord

schumer offered them all of that.had one member, and from what i can tell, it didn't appear to me there was a lot of other members that were also objecting, just the junior senator from missouri. but watching those scrums, mitch mcconnell is not in them. the main scrum that happened, was, in fact, thune was in it, cruz was in it. there have been other senators that have wandered in and out of the scrum. what they're trying to figure out is what kind of deal do they want to make with schumer to get some debate time. it looks like to me, schumer has not moved from that chair, and mitch mcconnell hasn't moved either, so this is all going on, i think, among the republican members of the caucus as to how to go forward, and the fact that gary is just standing there and not doing any shuttle work means that this is a fight within the republican caucus, not between the two parties. >> and who's on each side? where's that fight happening between whom? >> i think the fight is going on between the maga senators. and the maga sen

senator schumer: i put out a statement about columbia. peaceful protest is appropriate and i've always had goals in terms of israel policy. reduce the presence of hamas. free the hostages, get as much aid as possible done and do everything you can to avoid civilian casualties. last one. >> what are your major goals? senator schumer: we have a bunch of goals. we will do our best to get them done. they include trying to get $35 insulin, trying to get $35 insulin, trying to get child safety, online child safety done. dealing with the safer act and cannabis reform. we've got a lot to do and we can work in a bipartisan way. thank you, everybody. i left a message for president zelenskyy. he called me and said we got it done. now go win the fight. it is a very full package. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer talking about the senate passage for short time ago of the 95.3 billion dollar aid package for israel, ukraine and taiwan. the measure includes humanitarian aid for gaza, sanctions on russia, iran and it requires tiktok to the best from

they say senator schumer is trying to muddy up the water and make it look deep. it's pretty simple, says the sender. the couch piece mallorca mayorkas and they have a full trial. reaction continues to pour in as we watch what is happening on the senate floor as we all wonder where this goes next. >> well, the democrats have majority. they are likely to get what they want. chad did a magnificent job. in explaining the myriad of ways the house and senate are arriving at these decisions. it is a competent process. it will take some methodical action by the senate leadership but at the end of this if you got the votes you will get what you want to do and senator schumer makes it clear who knows what he wants to do. shut this down, he does not want a trial. and he apparently has the votes. i think we know what is coming in four or five hours. >> bill: carl, thank you for joining us. andy mccarthy is waiting in the wings. we will get his analysis as well as we get a quick timeout from the senate floor. with the articles of impeachment now delivered and the trialis unde

that's why schumer went to the point of order. it's interest to go me to see whether or not there's a republican that votes for this. because, you know, i'm curious because i know that knowing schumer as i do, i would posit that he definitely wanted to try to get a republican vote or two. i'm wondering if this particular point of order wasn't his gamut to give cover to some republicans to say, yeah, we voted to dismiss the impeachment because we believed it was not a constitutionally based impeachment because of the lack of a high crime or misdemeanor. >> julia ainsley, you cover secretary mayorkas closely. tell me about what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was saying. he was alleging mayorkas lied. >> reporter: the minority leader was trying to harken back to what we heard over and over again, where they said that basically mayorkas lied to congress because he said that they had control over the border when they didn't. what all of this comes down to, katy is the definition of operational control. operational control of th

schumer, mr. scott of floridamr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen, ms. sinema, ms. smith. mrs. stabenow, mr. sullivan, mr. mr. tillis, mr. taber bill, mr. van hollen, mr. vance. mr. warner, mr. warnock, ms. warren, mr. welch. mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young. majority leaders recognize. ask any senator is not in the senate chamber at the time the meoath was administered to the other senators will make the facts are known to the chairs of the oath may be administered as soon as possible to the tsenate -- mike to the senator. >> sgt at arms to make the proclamation. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent under pain of imprisonment while the senate of the united states is convened as a court of impeachment to consider the articles of impeachment against alejandro mayorkas secretary of homeland security. >> madam president thomas majority leaders recognized by. >> at a moment i will ask unanimous consent to allow for skdebate time. to allow for republicans to offer and have votes on trial resolutions and allow for republicans to offer

what is schumer's obligation with these terkel articles? he do under the rules of congress? could this be kicked aside in a couple of hours? or will we find ourselves in a story that goes on for a few days? >> this will be wrapped up probably tonight. the obligation is to do pretty much what they are doing. there are senate impeachment rules that were developed in 1983 and they basically have to go through at least rule three. you are seeing rule three right now where they brought the articles over yesterday, they presented the manager is to the senate, they listen to the articles read by mark green, the republican representative from tennessee who is the lead impeachment manager and the chair of the homeland security committee, and they brought them back next day over the senate impeachment rules at 1:00 in the afternoon to swear everybody in as witnesses, as jewelers. so that's what they are doing. after that it's anybody's ball game. usually you would have presentations. again i say usually come with only done this 22 times in history of

is, what's senator schumer is doing? you know, i've been thinking about it in 1999 senators from both sides of the aisle i understood that the offense's the articles of impeachment against president clinton did not reach the level of for removal and the leaders then the minority leader, tom dashiell majority leader, lead to trent lott work together to streamline a process to get this done fast. without destroying of the sort of the process of impeachment. and they did it what's really interesting to me is it looks like a secretary, senator schumer and mitch mcconnell, senator mcconnell haven't really reached an agreement they both seem to understand that this particular impeachment does not reach the level of seriousness for a full-fledg deep trial but they seem to have a diffent approaches to what to do about itand i'm surised that's okay. that senator schumer, maybe he tried. i don't know. yeah. >> so you have to cut you off. we can listen to senate majority leader schumer on the floor of the senate right now, let's li

senator schumer: i put out a statement about columbia. peaceful protest is appropriate and i've always had goals in terms of israel policy. reduce the presence of hamas. free the hostages, get as much aid as possible done and do everything you can to avoid civilian casualties. last one. >> what are your major goals? senator schumer: we have a bunch of goals. we will do our best to get them done. they include trying to get $35 insulin, trying to get $35 insulin, trying to get child safety, online child safety done. dealing with the safer act and cannabis reform. we've got a lot to do and we can work in a bipartisan way. thank you, everybody. i left a message for president zelenskyy. he called me and said we got it done. now go win the fight. it is a very full package.

schumer, to me he is devil possessed. they will call good evil and e vil good in the last days and that is exactly where we are. i'm sorry to say that, but that is exactly where we are. thank you, ma'am. host: on the front page of the washington post and new york times, that is the flooding in the united europe in writz in oman -- united arab emirates, in oman. this is a picture on the front page of the new york times showing the flooding and the situation going on there. is is a year's worth of rain in one day killed at least 19 in oman and paralyzed cities in the uae. florida, democrat. caller: hi. this is kathy from the stupid state. i wanted to mention bob graham, who was our governor and senator for many years who passed away, if we had more bob grahams we would be in better shape. i gathered the names of the people who served with him, this was many years ago, but we didn't always be the stupid state. i have jared moskowitz as my house member, and i wish he would get together with representative bacon who seems like

schumer: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from new york, mr. schumer, proposes an amendment in my judgment 1843 to amendment number 1842. mr. schumer: i ask consent further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to refer h.r. 815 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. schumer moves to refer the house message to accompany h.r. 815 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment number 1844. mr. schumer: i ask consent that further reading of the motion be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. schumer: i have an amendment to the instruction at the desk. the presiding offi

. >> thank you, senator schumer. the american people send us to washington to govern, and that's exactly what democrats have been doing and continue to do. we are rebuilding america. we are bringing jobs home as essentially senator schumer talking about. jobs that were overseas coming home. and we're taking on big corporate interests to lower costs where growing the middle class and focusing on lowering costs. and we took on one of the biggest areas of cost for americans that we haven't talked about for years, that's big pharma. we took on big pharma and we won. now senior senior still n $35 a month for insulin, and that's a big deal for people. shingles and pneumonia and other vaccines are free, and drug companies can no longer rip off seniors by raising their prices faster than the rate of inflation, if you're getting a cancer treatment and the doctors hospital or hospital, this a huge difference. lower prices are being negotiated for drugs that treat conditions including blood clots and heart failure and cancer an

you heard chuck schumer's argument.y believe this is just a political grand standing effort by republicans and doesn't deserve the time of the u.s. senate, which is why we fully suspect that this process will wrap itself up pretty quickly. >> so claire, they both have their reasons on both sides. you were there. we often talk about the fact -- i think we mentioned this just yesterday -- that the senate was always seen as the body that was expected to be the grown-ups. what's the grown-up thing to do here in your mind? >> well, the grown-up thing to do is to not have a trial when what has been cooked up in the house is a mere political effort to highlight an issue that they think is going to get them votes in november. that's what this is all about. there is no high crime. there is no misdemeanor. there is -- you know, if this is going to be the standard for future impeachments, anybody could be impeached with a majority in the house just for having policy disagreements. that's the precedent that's worrisome, not a prece

chuck schumer point of order the articles are unconstitutional. whether it is agreed to by the senate the first article of impeachment already deemed unconstitutional on an earlier approach live coverage on cspan2. on this vote, the senate will be in order. on this vote the yeas are 51 the nays is 49 article two falls. >> met a president. >> majority leak is recognized for a guy moved to adjourn the impeachment trial of alejandro mayorkas and i asked for the yeas and hochul. [screaming] is there sufficient second question at the clerk will call callthe roll. >> ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso, mr. bennet, did he say i? >> mrs. blackburn, mr. blumenthal, mr. booker, mr. boozman, mr. braun, mrs. brent, mr. brown, if your r budd, ms. beutler, cantwell, mrs. capito, mr. cardin, mr. carper, mr. casey, mr. cassidy, ms. collins, mr. coons, mr. cornyn, ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton, mr. cramer, mr. crapo, mr. cruz, mr. daines, mrs. duckworth, mr. durbin, ms. ernest, mr. fetterman, mrs. fischer, mrs. julie brann, mr. graham, mr. grassley, mr. hagerty, ms. hassan,

schumer. we're ready to go. but it leads us back to this point. even the biden administration agrees with it. if an executive branch agencies has fully abdicated its statutory requirements, its duties, its responsibilities, there is really only one alternative. and the house did its job. we impeached. and now it's time for the senate to do its job and let that trial take place and let us see if secretary mayorkas should be removed from his office. that's what the founders intended, that's what history has indicated, and that's what is necessary in this case. and with that, i turn it back over to my friend and senator from utah, mr. lee. >> right. let's open up for questions. >> yeah. >> what steps can you take to try and force a trial the take mace, and are you already negotiating with democrats for the process tomorrow to try and come up with opportunities to prevent options in terms of forcing a trial? >> you know, look, we convene at 1:00 whereupon we'll be sworn in to be the deciders of fact and judges of the law in this case. after that motio

what do you think the incentive would be for chuck schumer to let republicans go ahead and speak and essentially say their piece about the secretary yeah, i think to a point, obviously, you know that the capacity for really any senator, but certainly an entire caucus have senators to gum up the works in the senate is enormous, not only on this issue you know, the kind of response could spill over beyond it. >> so it's kind of hard to simply ignore or silence the minority party in the senate. and i suspect he will have some accommodation while keeping in mind his overall desire to move past this very quickly. and, you know, gloria brought up the house vote, which is a reminder. i mean democrats did not not feel much constraint or hesitation about voting against this in the house. and i don't think they will feel much more inhibition about opposing it in the senate, immigration, as we said, is an issue where republicans now have a significant advantage. i mean, a lot of the trump policies that were very controversial when he was president have actually been gaining support in polls in

question now, does chuck schumer allow a trial or dismiss this out of hand?is is the historic walk we had anticipating become our own chad pergram is there are watching along with us and we heard from senator joni ernst and we have heard from senate republicans who have been demanding that schumer hold the mallorca's impeachment trial. as you see them walking these articles of impeachment 33 senators including ernst called on the senate to fulfill what they call is their constitutional duty by holding trial to consider the impeachment alejandro mayorkas. so, trace, this is the highly anticipated walk. this is what is happening is republicans pressure democrat colleagues not to dismiss this. >> it's interesting as chad pointed out no one has seen this is the first time this has happened in 148 years. that is the last time that you had, you know, you had a bureau person that was literally impeached. you think okay, well, this is the first time in 148 years and the debate is still on. just today during the hearing all hunger mallorca's made the claim there is no

but as i said, leader schumer has decided that he wants to change his tune, and all of a sudden he is not wanting this, even though we actually have a public officeholder who deserves to stand for impeachment trial. and that is secretary mayorkas. and now that it is, the shoe is on the other foot, if you will, and now that it is a democrat, leader schumer wants to change the rules and say, no. he's even willing to take unprecedented actions that this chamber has never taken when it comes to the issue of impeachment. and i believe this should incense every single american. i know it incenses the people of tennessee. because what we have learned in the last three years about secretary mayorkas, even though his title is the secretary of homeland security, he does not believe in securing the homeland, and he has refused to fulfill his duty of securing the homeland. now, i know that secretary mayorkas is doing the bidding of joe biden and the biden administration. he's just doing what they tell him he's got to do. that in and of itself tells you a lot about what this administration thinks

schumer: i move to adjourn until 9:04 p.m. today. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to adjourn until 9:04 p.m. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the senate stands adjourned until 9:04 p.m. today. the senate will come to order. the clerk: washington, d.c., april 15, to the send a, under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, i appoint the honorable tina smith to perform the duties of the chair. signed patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the morning hour be expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to calendar number 350, s.4072. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mo

check biden's latest tax hike and mayorkas articles of impeachment get to senate floor but will chuck schumer do his job? senator rand paul will give us latest on all of that and over on house side, the whole israel uukraine foreign raid story, in big trouble. unraveling as we speak, we have congressman kevin hern. to tell us what is happening and steve hilton and mollie hemingway why voters nostalgic for good old trump years and can donald trump get a fair trial in upstate new york. our en edwa own edward lawrence has details. reporter: let's start with the impeachment. this could be first cabinet person in president biden's cabinet to be removed from office, impeachment articles officially went over to the senate today, and you can see managers, they are managers from the house side, they are carrying the articles mar marjorie taylor greene and andy biggs and chairman mark green, foreign affairs committee michael mccaul, walking this in, this afternoon, is when chairman of homeland security commission started reading the articles of impeachment, managers stood bo heine him behind him as he

and now it's schumer that say schumer who oppose be around the view. and the same schumer who was incorrectly quoted in 2006, 10, said we should economically strain go guy. so that's what he said. it's the same schumer who gave that speech. and that's why i've said there are 2 forces. the court between the judge really there are class and the democratic party base. and there's a lot of turbulence not to mention outrage in the democratic party base at the support of the, by the administration for the fact of support of dividing ministration for israel. then they believe me talk to supports and they believe israel and so sure it was a very interesting speech. was very interesting. first of all, named for ops because the piece one come us to the power of sidney, the $33.00. yes and yahoo! and for the for right, israel, the balance. he balanced the responsibility. very unusual, especially he's the guy who pose the around you use like way out in right field dollars. and then the most interesting part of the speech was he didn't say supporting one state was

schumer: finally, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn to then convene for pro forma sessions only, with no business being conducted, on friday, april 26, at 10:00 am. further, that when the senate adjourns on friday, april 26, it stand adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on tuesday, april 30. that on tuesday, following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. following the conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the alexakis nomination. further, that the cloture motions filed during today's session ripen at 5:30 p.m. on tuesday. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the sena

and now it's schumer, that's a schumer who oppose the revenue and the same schumer who as you correctly quoted in 2006, 10, said we should economically strain go the. so that's with he said, it's the same schumer who gave that speech. and that's why i've said there are 2 forces, the course between the jewish really there are class and the democratic party base . and there's a lot of turbulence not to mention outrage in the democratic party days at the support of the buys it ministration for the fact of support of dividing ministration for israel enabling who touches supports, enabling israel and so sure it was a very interesting speech was very interesting, 1st of all, named for ops, because the piece one hom us to the power to need a 33. yes. and yahoo and for the for right israel, the balance. he balanced the responsibility. very unusual, especially he's the guy who pose the around you use like way out in right field dollars. and then the most interesting part of the speech was he didn't say support the one state was at the same medic, as he actually said, did you read the speech? he

schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the -- the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 365, h.r. 7888, an act to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the only amendments in order to h.r. 7888 be the following, paul 1829, marshall 1834, wyden 1820, paul 1828, durbin 1841 as modified, lee 1840. further, that on disposition of the amendments, the bill as amended, if amended, be considered read a third time and the senate vote on passage with 60 votes on the paul vote as amended, if amended, with senator paul permitted to speak for up to ten minutes prior to the vote on 1829. all without further intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? hearing none, without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, we have good news for america's national security. senators have reached an agreement that clears

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by senator chuck schumer majority leader, and the impeachment trial ended. it took about three hours total. this is david in frenchlink, indiana, republican line david good evening. caller: good evening thanks for taking my call. i'm not going to take very long to describe what i saw today. the dismissal of the two impeachment charges without one minute of listening to evidence. senator lee made the appropriate speech. this was all to say biden's chances to win the election that's all it was totally political. blew by the constitution we live in a banana republic. thank you. >> that's david sherry in pennsylvania line for democrats. sherry go ahead. >> hi thank you for listening to me. mayorkas is working with what he has to work with. republicans had a bill and the democrats went whroong that bill. and then trump said he didn't want it he was going to use it for his republicans that the republicans shouldn't push it. but you know what, mayorkas said what he said because that's what he has to work with. republicans do not wants to win the border crisis they

it's a lifelong pledge to chuck schumer.ited states known to be the leader globally of this effort to strengthen alliances with israel, when you when the us leads the way, president biden is now leading, that ends up eroding support across the rest of the country. and a quick question if it's okay for a general to, you see a lot of rhetoric coming from the left using terms like genocide and proportionality, and if you could just speak from from your experience as to what israel is doing, whether it's, you know, roof knockers, leaflets, the warnings, the effort that they're taking, the painstaking effort that they're taking, please, just, you know, speak to that so that we understand and can sort through the rhetoric. sure yeah. hey, lee. great, chat with you, the. i've never seen a military go through so much effort to make sure that there's no collateral damage, no civilian casualties. and it is absolutely, what they do is absolutely 100% trying to minimize civilian casualties and putting their own troops in harm's way that

is sitting on the desk in the senate and chuck schumer refuses to pass it.s only the claimant to be, somehow somewhat wide-eyed bill, lily what the bills says, every american knows of those, the bill says, if you are here illegally or even if you have a claim, as our law requires now, you should be detained. that is pretty much with the bill says. detained people who were here if they got a claim, adjudicate them and the remove them of the don't have a legitimate claim. if we did that, the flow would slow down to small manageable number, anybody with a legitimate crane we could process and we could secure the border. he refused to do that, the secretaries trying to mislead the american people as you always does which is why he was impeached properly by the u.s. house. >> neil: this is more of a dumb question than anything meaningful but he's not going to be impeached,'s can be convicted i should say, he has been impeached. but it doesn't look like 67 u.s. senators are going to convict. but let's say that is wrong, laissez does happen. the president is going

from the republicans if, in fact, schumer decides to table this trial? well, first of all, you know, we just never stops the violations of law. and i heard just a little bit on your show before with the great former congressman lee zeldin, our wonderful candidate for governor. look, the president has the powers under the immigration and nationality nationality act. he has direct powers to control the border, to determine who is qualified, who what you know, what person may impose a danger on this country and to prevent them from coming in so we could go back and relook at some of the evidence that's coming in the secret night flights that have come in that the biden administration has put in play, violating >> if you are going to bring dangerous people, unvetted people across our border through the flights and drop them in new york city, there's 36,000 who have come into new york city while mayor adams and governor hochul keep blaming the governor of texas, this is actually the biden administration that's paying for this. we remember the secret night fli

chuck schumer says he won't accept it if it is paid for.e aid unpaid for. here is taiwan aid unpaid for. here is whole bunch of other money puts us further into debt. i think the biggest risk our country has is not invasion from without. it is the rot from within from debt. we have to do something. our national security is threatened by this. so we need mike johnson to step up and he needs to look and stair down chuck schumer to say we've already passed israel aid. you think israel needs more aid? you got it. it is on your desk, pass it. but we'll pay for it by reducing irs spending. larry: perhaps mr. johnson will come around to your liking. last one, senator paul. this is the day after tax day. i know it's a great sell phrase in our household. once upon a time you were for a flat tax. i've got about 45 seconds to a minute. how about the flat tax, senator paul? >> absolutely. i love steve forbes' flat tax. i had a flat tax when i rand for president. the thing is, we need a flat tax, but everybody needs to pay it weekly or monthly so they s

. >> i know this is right call to delay it because, chuck schumer wants this gone today.does the president they know this issue is a losing issue for them they know most americans know that the border is a complete tragedy a disaster, and to not be able to hear, the facts presented to the senate need maximum pressure campaign applied to people like jon tester, sherrod brown others need he courage to say hear facts american public deserves transparency. >> that was texas congressman mayorkas impeachment manager august pleuger on this program this morning citing the house decision to delay spending mayorkas impeachment articles to the senate urging mike johnson to do it next week preventing chuck schumer from tabling the trial roger martial says if schumer does not let this trial go on republicans will respond. >> tabling this impeachment articles is a nuclear option, in our estimation this is a nuclear option, it will necessitate some type of nuclear retaliations. >> joining me alabama senator tub vile member of verts affairs health education labor pensions committee thank

and now it's sure that say schumer who oppose the around the view and the same schumer who was incorrectly quoted in 2006, 10, said we should economically strain, go die. so that's what he said. it's the same schumer who gave that speech. and that's why i've said there are 2 forces, the course between the jewish 1000000000. there are class and the democratic party base. and there's a lot of turbulence, not to mention outrage in the democratic party base as the support of the, by the administration for the fact of support of dividing ministration for israel. then they believe me talk to supports and natalie is real. and so sure it was a very interesting speech, was very interesting. first of all, he named flor ops that goes to piece one hom us to the posted in a $33.00. yes and yahoo and for the for right israel, the balance, the balance, the responsibility. very unusual, especially he's the guy who opposed the around you use like way out in right field dollars. and then the most interesting part of the speech was he didn't say support the one state was at the semitic, as he actually said,

chuck schumer rides again. speaking of re-- i guess that failed, i don't know what there is to know, it looks like mayorkas is getting off scot-free, what is the next step? you don't want this issue to die regardless of mayorkas. biden you hear rumors mr. speaker he will use some executive authority 212 it was g, i don't see anything on sanctions again iran, and i don't see anything about sanctions to close our border. >> no, that is why we put sanction in legislation to go after iran and china is russia. on border, i have been telling president since the day i got the gavel, the next day. we met at white house and talked about border, we have been talking about it with his staff and with him, redemand they use that executive order. i delivered to president's menu of 8 executive actions he could take. under existing federal law, he access like he has no ability or he dues mot does not believe it is true, that is a nonsense, he does not top close the border, that is clear, why? i think we know. they want to unde

here is part of the plea made by schumer. [video clip] >> is the congress goes back into session, i urge republicans and snap -- to snap out of their paralysis. the situation in ukraine is desperate. speaker johnson has sat on his hands for 55 days as the national security supplemental has collected dust. that is 55 days of america standing on the sidelines while our friends in ukraine die on the battlefield with no support. 55 days of our european allies wondering when the u.s. will step up. with each passing day ukraine continues to run out of ammo, continues to run out of soldiers and run out of hope to expel the russians from their borders. the biggest reason ukraine is losing the war is because the hard right in congress has paralyzed the united states from acting. that's it. that's the reason. speaker johnson has to decide whether or not he will do the right thing for ukraine, america and for democracy or if he will allow maga republicans to hand vladimir putin a victory. host: senator schumer from yesterday. terri in i

let's hear from senator schumer's comments after wednesday's vote. here he is. caller: as suspected, the republicans proved this afternoon that this whole impeachment was nothing more than a political show. the problem was they were not prepared. we offered to have an open and public debate and votes on multiple resolutions by republicans. rather than taking that time to hold the debate that republicans claimed was imperative, they denied our fair and reasonable offer and did not seem to know what to do. we saw today what we saw -- what we saw today was a microcosm of this impeachment since day one, shallow, frivolous, political. and we felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent that impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements. i felt that very strongly. this is the first impeachment i can recall. you look at history. none were done because there were policy disagreements. if we allow that to happen, it would set a disastrous precedent for congress, throw our system of checks and balances into cycles of chaos. anytime the house would w

we need to be able to support senator schumer's actions. senator schumers is prepared to move forward if he can get the 50 votes and of course whenever harris votes in the senate will always win, so i always like having her there. >> what are some perspective pieces of legislation that are not feasible under the current constitutional framework that maybe wouldn't be possible after the amendment is recognized? >> i think it's more to protect than it is affirmative passing but it's an excellent question. we are struggling with interpretations that are affecting affirmative action and the use of demographic data et cetera that is causing tremendous challenge dealing with the underserved communities. so i would have to giveug that someme thought if we want to adt additional protections in regards to the equal rights amendment's. my guess is there would be an evaluation date and there would probably be an effort for legislation to go further than we've gone past. it's not a protective class under the constitution so therefore we doo not have th