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then we go on to sylvia garcia and miss garcia, the head of the municipal courts in houston before a member of congress made the case that here is an argument that we've been hearing from the president's team, which says oh, you know what? it's totally legitimate to look into joe biden because biden took these steps and his son apparently the benefit of nepotism had this exceedingly high paying job with a ukrainian company, burisma. >> bill: would you like to hear from him, juan? >> i would love to. not in terms of this impeachment hearing, although now you can make the argument, i think andy made this argument here, andy said, hey, well, if they bring this up, they have opened the door to possibly having -- >> bill: quickly on that before a break here. does that happen, andy? >> may well be a part of the strategy is arguing this burisma stuff, which they didn't get evidence on in the house proceeding, is in a way helps the house's argument for their own witnesses. because i don't think there's any chance in this proceeding that one side is going to get witnesses and the other side i

congresswoman sylvia garcia of texas. she's a member of the house judiciary committee. before congress miss garcia served in texas state senate previously. she was the director and presiding judge of the houston municipal system and was elected city controller. she was later elected the first hispanic and first woman to be elected in her own right the harris county commissioner's court. as you can see from these descriptions, the emphasis is on litigator's. the emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom. the emphasis is making as strong as possible case to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the american people. i'm very proud and honored that these seven members, distinguished members, have accepted this serious responsibility. again to protect and defend for the people, defending our democracy. later at noon, we'll go to the -- when we leave here, a little bit later at noon, we'll go to the floor and pass a resolution, naming the managers officially. i wanted to say more about them here and to say that the decision to come down in favor of liti

you have sylvia garcia of texas, jason crow of colorado. he was seen as a surprise pick given he's not on the two relevant committees. former army ranger. these are the folks who nancy pelosi has referred to as litigators. she says they're comfortable with the material. she says they're going to present the ironclad case against president trump. we expect to see opening arguments as early as next tuesday. >> geoff bennett prfeviewing wht will be one of the swiftest house debates we have having seen. i want to turn to the white

sylvia garcia making the case in a number of different fronts. we talked about the efforts to talk about ukraine and what they did or didn't do as based on what russia says ukraine did and to preempt some of the trump arguments about the efforts to go after corruption in ukraine. we're joined by chris wallace. you think this is pretty effective by garcia. >> i do. i said at the top of the -- of our coverage this felt like groundhog day. we're going to hear the same arguments all over again. it's true with jerry nadler. but sylvia garcia has really been effective. you can argue whether you agree with her or not. this is one of the big arguments you'll hear from the republicans, the white house lawyers, when they talk. that is going to be that well, the president wasn't trying to to get dirt on his political opponent. joe biden. he was trying to root out corruption and going after burisma and even involved in firing a prosecutor general and also was trying to protect american elections. what you've heard congresswoman garcia from houston lay out in

schiff, jerrold nadler, hiking jefferies zoe lofgren, val demings, jason crow, and sylvia garcia will act as prosecutors in the senate trial. >> good morning, everyone. this is a very important day for us. there are temporal markers that our founders, poets, and others have used over time to place us in time to emphasize the importance of time. because everything is about time. it,we use it, how we mark and today is an important day. today is the day that we name the managers who go to the floor to pass the resolution to transmit the articles of and,chment to the senate later in the day, when we have the endorsement, the march of those articles of impeachment to the united states senate. as i have said, it has always been, our founders, when they started, in the course of human events when it becomes abraham lincoln, fourscore and seven years ago, thomas payne, these are the .imes that bind us ,gain and again, even our poets longfellow. remember? listen, my children, and you will hear the midnight ride of .aul revere remembering that famous day and year. it's always about marking hist

. >> representatives sylvia garcia from houston, one of the house impeachment managers continuing to make the case here. we are going to take a quick break and be back with the impeachment trial from the senate floor here on fox. uhh, excuse me, is there a problem here? you're in a no parking zone. oh, i... i didn't know. you didn't see the sign? that... that wasn't there when i was here earlier. (whimper) really? you know, in italy, they let you park anywhere. have a good day, sir. with geico, the savings keep on going. just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. (glass shattering) (frustrated yell) (car horn blast) (yelp) >> we are back with your live coverage of the senate impeachment hearings. we will be sticking with this and go to "the five," live at 5:00 this evening. we will be coming in and out of this coverage as we continue to follow it throughout. sylvia garcia still at the podium. >> let's take a listen. >> president trump directed the delegation to talk to giuliani. here we show efforts that describe instruction from the president. >>

>>all right listening to congresswoman sylvia garcia of the houston area talking about too.bers of the trump administration that worked at the department of defense blair and duffey who e involved in the shutting off of aid to ukraine when they were authorized to spend million the pentagon was supposed to provide that aid through the office of management and budget. but these 2 individuals, accordi to democrats stepped in and stopped that they say that these 2 men should be allowed to testify at the senate trial now live from washington. ight >>and while all of this is going on president trump is overseas right now as this impeachment drama is unlding in washington. he is taking part in the world onomic forum in davos, switzerland, his response to today's event so far just 3 words read the transcripts and stay with kron 4 on the latest on the impeachment trial. we will be carrying the trial live on our 24 7 commercial free streaming news service. and ahead tonight at 8.30 we're getting insight on today's events from our political analyst miael yockey. >>on the peninsula here

adam schiff, jerrold nadler, hakeem jeffries, zoe lofgren, jason crow, and sylvia garcia will act as prosecutors in the senate trial. speaker pelosi: good morning, everyone. this is a

adam schiff, jerrold nadler, hakeem jeffries, zoe lofgren, val demings, jason crow, and sylvia garcia. the what purpose is gentleman from new york seeking recognition? t to house resolution 767, i now send to the desk a resolution appointing authorizing managers for the impeachment of donald john trump president of the united states and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. schiff, mr. nadler, mrs. love green, misdemmings and mr. crow are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment manager against donald john trump a message be sent to the senate to inform the senate of these appointments and the managers may in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial exhibit the articles of impeachment to the senate and take all other actions necessary which may include the following, one, employing legal, clerical and other necessary assistance and incurring such other is expenses paid be necessary to be from amounts made available to the committee of judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or ap lick cabble

a sylvia garcia of texas, judge in a number of capacities in texas and member of the judiciary committee. we are very honored that you have taken the responsibility, all of you, to bring the articles of impeachment over to the united states senate withle a case for the constitution. -- with a case for the constitution. a case for the constitution. so back to the children, back to the children. we don't want this president or any president to ever violate the constitution. it is very, very important that we see that that constitution is central to who we are as a country. our system of government. our system of government. our constitution. so valued, so respected, hopefully so honored by everyone who takes an oath of office to support and defend it. e see the russians now hacking in ukraine, just came out yesterday or day before, it just reminds me -- i think most americans would think that voters in america should decide who our president is, not vladimir putin and russia deciding who our president is. i'm very concerned that in all of this, whether it's withholding funds for the ukrain

as reflected in this email -- >> laura: that was congresswoman sylvia garcia, freshman congresswoman from texas. back with you now, our panel of legal those. bob barker, they keep haggling over aid that eventually was released and it turns out, ukraine didn't even know about it, that it was held, until august 29th or something like that. shouldn't the case basically end there? >> most of the facts have been known for quite some time. as i've said many times on your show, there is an argument for taking everything that has been considered by the house, except it, let it be turned into evidence and arguing from that. can you, would people like to hear from john bolton? heck, i would like to hear from john bolton, i think that would be great theater. as you and i have talked about, be careful what you ask for, i think john bolton is much more likely to be damaging to rudy giuliani than he is to president trump. but the basic facts here are known. each side puts a different spin on it but they are known. the evidence is, for the most part, in. >> laura: i want to now play what cipollone

the obstruction of congress so we've been hearing from the managers today in fact one of them sylvia garcia said that president orchestrated a cover up they'll be wrapping up on friday and then we'll be hearing from president and legal team they're expected to start on saturday and they too will have 3 days ok public in washington we'll have to leave it there thank you. in the bundesliga dortmund put on a dominant performance in the 51 win against cologne on friday night thanks in part to a rising star dortmund's new wizkid erling hollande hit the target twice in his 2nd game for the club after scoring a hat trick in his debut last week the 19 year old norwegian proved once again that he has what it takes to be a major new force in the game for a long time to come. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. france has confirmed 3 cases of the coronavirus from china they're the 1st cases to be reported in europe china has restricted trouble for more than 40000000 people in a bid to contain the virus the disease has killed at least 26 people so far. german chancellor angela me

and sylvia garcia. by noon, the vote to transmit the articles came to the house floor with democrats and republicans making their final comments before the senate trial begins. >> president trump put his own personal interests above the national interests. >> this was always an exercise in raw partisan politics. >> president trump gravely abused the power of his office. >> the true motivation of the other side is their dislike for the president. >> republican objections just after 1:30 today the house gave its final approval. it was a mostly party line vote. this evening, the spoker along with her impeachment managers held a ceremony. she took the historic step of signing the two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of justice against donald trump. she took a little bit of personal privilege as she was distributing the pens used to sign those articles. >> and i'll take one for myself. >> the house clerk, along with the impeachment managers like their predecessors in 1999 and 1868 walk

borja: y cerramos este grupo de siete representantes con sylvia garcÍa.los siete han llegado esta maÑana al senadoy han presentado estas dos acusaciones en contra del presidente trump. obstrucciÓn al congreso y abuso de poder. carolina: bueno, justamente es importante decir que fueron establecidas las reglas para este juicio en el senado. y llaman la atenciÓn algunas tomÁs de seguridad, como por ejemplo estas. los senadores tendrÍan que dejar los telÉfonos celulares en la puerta. las tabletas serÁn almacenadas en el guardarropas. se va a restringir contacto con periodistas y senadores dentro de este juicio que puede durar dÍas o semanas. borja: bueno, la presidenta del congreso nancy pelosi, se refiriÓ en esta etapa. hablando de que la casa blanca violÓ fondos aprobados por el congreso de ucrania. cuando se le preguntÓ sobre la estrategia de la casa blanca y de la llamada de la bancada republicana de no llamar testigos, dijo que estaban siendo evasivos. vamos a escuchar a nancy pelosi. [habla en inglÉs] nancy: tienen miedo de la verdad. los americanos han

sylvia garcÍa continÚa presentando su caso contra donald trump.era: un republicano atacÓ a garcÍa herido que su presentaciÓn era engaÑosa. republicanos dicen que los demÓcratas repiten mÁs de lo mismo >> puedo decirles que cuando yo hice mi presentaciÓn todos estaban escuchando. reportera: hablamos con jerry nadler, conversaciÓn que no pudo ser grabada por la cÁmara debido a las restricciones en el senado, cuando le preguntamos cuÁles son las dos evidencias mÁs fuertes contra el presidente, nos dijo que primero la llamada del 25 de junio y despuÉs las propias palabras del presidente. como cuando donald trump le pidiÓ a china que investiguen a los biden, y hoy segÚn la cadena abc en una grabaciÓn se escucha a donald trump " desastre de ella " ordenando la destituciÓn de la embajadora de ucrania. donald trump lamentÓ la programaciÓn y en un tono burlÓn dio a entender que el sÁbado muchas personas no ven televisiÓn los esta inmigrante salvadora trabaja conduciendo los trenes y ya tiene un veredicto, cree que el presidente no serÁ destituido. >> creo

adam schiff, jerry nadler, jason crow, zoe lofgren, sylvia garcia, val demings. pelosi said she wants experience in the courtroom. she also defended her month-long delay. >> since december 18th, there have been comments about when are we going to send the articles over? well, we had mohammed the courtesy would be extend that had we would have seen what the process would be in the senate. short of that, that time has revealed many things since then. time has been our friend in all of this. as we've yielded incriminating evidence, more truce into the public complain. >> she talked about new information. notes, records and text messages provided to congress by lev parnas. this man here. among them, a letter to zwrool president zelensky asking for a meeting and saying he was working his client. president trump's quote, knowledge and consent. the documents also appear to show a trump donor and long shot republican congressional candidate was monitoring or at least claiming to monitor ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch while she was still in ukraine and before she wa

it was sylvia garcia taking down factually untrue allegations against joe biden including the context around his pushing for the firing of the ukrainian prosecutor, the allegations we all know. he fired him or pushed them to fire him to stop an investigation into burisma which would help hunter biden. he was on the board, right? that's the allegation. of course it doesn't add up. wasn't investigating burisma. so, here's sylvia garcia making the points. >> under show gun, the investigation had stalled and was dormant. that was part of the reason why the united states and other countries wanted to remove shokin, calling for shokin's replacement would actually increase the chances that burisma would be investigated. in other words, shokin was corrupt in not investigating allegations against burisma. so, when vice president biden was calling for shokin's removal in advocating for his replacement, it would increase chances of burisma's investigation. >> all right. so, she's laying out how what biden did was actually the opposite of what he would have done if he were trying to corruptly hel

crystal clear. >> juan: you missed sylvia garcia.really terrific, in which she laid just this out for you, jesse, and made it very apparent. i wish you had watched. because she talked about this and talked about how president trump didn't raise this issue in 2017 or 2018. >> jesse: she only found out about it because joe bragged about it on tv -- >> juan: hold on, you said they didn't do due diligence but yes, the u.s. government was interested in ukrainian corruption all along, but in the phone call, trump never mentions corruption. he mentions bidens. >> jesse: why do you think bidenbidens? because of corruption. because of burisma, the most corrupt company in the nation. >> juan: in the phone call, fox news poll's shows biden consistently beating trump, so trump says, i've got to get this guy. >> katie: two months before the july 25th phone call came out, a big story came out about joe biden being tied to burisma, whether he would be a problem to joe biden's campaign based on his long history of dealing with these situations where

congresswoman sylvia garcia of texas, she's a member of the house judiciary committee. before congress she served in texas state senate. she was a presiding judge and was elected city's controller. she was elected the first hispanic and first woman to be elected in other own right of the harris county commissioner court. you can see from these descriptions of the emphasis on litigators. the emphasis is on comfort levels in the courtroom. the emphasis is making the strongest possible case, protecting and defending our constitution to seek the truth for the american people. i am very proud and honor these seven members, distinguished members have accepted the serious responsibility to protect and defend for the people, defending our democracy. i am going to leave here a little bit later, we'll go to the floor and pass the resolution on naming the managers officially. i wanted to say more about them here and should say decisions that come down in favor of litigators is necessitated by clear evidence that we should have witnesses and we should have documentation and we have

congresswoman sylvia garcia is a member of the house judiciary committee. mr. congress, miss garcia was -- served in texas state senate previously. she was the director and presiding judge of the houston municipal system and was elected city controller. miss garcia was later elected the first hispanic and first woman to be elected in her own right to the harris county commissioner's court. as you can see from these descriptions, the emphasis is on litigators. the emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom. the emphasis is making the strongest possible case to protect and defend our constitution, to seek the truth for the american people. i'm very proud and honored that these seven members, distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility. again, to protect and defend for the people, defending our democracy. when we leave here a little bit later at noon, we'll go to the floor and pass a resolution naming the managers officially. but i wanted to say more about them here and to say that the decision to come down in favor of litigators is necessita

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ooher to dooh -- speaker today, and led by jerry nadler, and hakeem jeffries and zoe love gren and sylvia garcia and val demings and jason crow. it is an impressive group. >> yes, it is a powerful group that represents the diversity of the democratic party and litigators, and they have experience in courtrooms as zoe lofgren has experience with past impeachments and thinking of somebody like val demings, a law enforcement officer from orlando, florida, and that what nancy pelosi is thinking of how to get a group together who can put on a case and be familiar with the details of these cases, this case, and these people are obviously from some of the committees that tried this case and brought for waward witnesse so if you are the democratic caucus, you are happy with this. but there is speculation that somebody like justin amash who voted for impeachment articles might be named and he is a independent and former republican, but that is something that did not happen. some wanted it to happen, but nancy pelosi said it is not something that she really considered. so you have this group here. people

congressman sylvia garcia is debating schumer's sixth amendment for subpoenas of omb officials. >> again no one else. why this decision made so secretly and without any explanation. why is the president compromising the safety of a strategic ally in the region. why was he harming our national security interests in the process? on july 2, '06, duffy, attending a high level executive branch official meeting made clear that the freeze on military aid was based on donald trump's express direction but apparently he could not explain why there was a freeze beyond a vague reference to concerns about corruption. >> the official said. >> witnesses who testified before the house all provided the same consistent recounting of what happened. as you can see from the statements on the slide, officials were not provided clear explanation for such a dramatic step. >> as we discussed earlier and will explain in more depth during the trial these facts contradict the white house's recent claims of why donald trump froze the ukraine and. those facts clearly show efforts by this president and those around hi

managers and they include liz lofgren and adam schiff and jerry nadler and hakeem jeffries and sylvia garcia and justin crow. while that was happening the president signed a new trade deal, and the u.s. and china agreed to a partial trade deal and agreed to cancel some tariffs and renew others while china agreed to buy more agricultural products. >>> and the dow is up from yesterday. >>> and now, a look at the microclimate forecast tracking the strong storm on the coastline and on the way to the bay area. we have a look at the satellite radar and you can see the golden gate bridge there, and you can keep the umbrellas handy and dust them off and the rain boots, and when we need them. >> meteorologist kari hall has been warning about the storm all week, and when do we expect it to arrive? >> by tomorrow morning, and we are starting out with the most part of the bay area clear sky and dense fog moving into the north bay and a live look into san rafael right now. and then we will see the storm as it is moving closer and the center of the storm winding up and still off of the coast while some of

sylvia garcia of texas. a judge of a big capacity in texas. we're very honored that you have taken the responsibility, all of you, the bring the articles of impeachment over to the united states senate with the case for the constitution. a case for the constitution. so back to the children. back to the children. we don't want this president or any president to ever violate the constitution. it is very, very important that we see that that constitution is central to who we are as a country. our system of government. our system of government. our constitution. so valued, so respected, hopefully so honored by everyone that takes an oath of office to support and defend it. we see the russians now hacking and ukraine just came out yesterday, the day before. just reminds me of -- most americans would think that voters in america should decide who our president is, not vladimir putin and russia deciding who our president is. i'm very concerned that in all of this, whether withholding funds for the ukrainians, the ukrainian government to fight the rus

jerry nadler , hakeem jeffries, sylvia garcia, val dennings all at the table waiting to answer questions from senators . >>. [inaudible conversations] the majority leader in the lower right corner of your screen, he's ready to go. you can see he's at the leadership desk awaiting on the chief justice to enter the chamber and begin today's proceedings. as a reminder to you, we have cameras stationed around the senate chamber as well to get reaction from the senators, the attorneys and we've seen house lawmakers all as well as the house managers of course talking to reporters at these what are called stakeout locations for the media. all outside the senate chamber. we go back inside the chamber now and continue to watch the floor. >>. [inaudible conversations] and the senate again waiting for the chief justice to come into the chamber. we expect them when they start to go for several hours today. they are going to, they set aside eight for the questioning of the senators questioning the house managers as well as the president's lawyers . they also take a break so when they do we will open u

garcia ofman sylvia texas, she's a member of the house judiciary committee and before congress she served in and was thesenate, director and presiding judge of the houston municipal system and was elected city controller. she was later elected -- vonnie: nancy pelosi naming seven managers for the seven and -- the senate impeachment trials to begin next week, including val demings, sylvia garcia, jason crow, and we were expecting jerry nadler and adam schiff. wes a very diverse group and will analyze what all means in a moment. let's get to the white house, speaking on trade we have larry kudlow. the heavy lifting here was getting phase one, nothing like this has ever happened before in history. you may be cynical and that's your job, i appreciate that and i have been on your side of the street in my career, but i'm least on paper, with enforcement, -- and the fact that it happened is historic. >> was this the only deal? the best deal? it's the best deal, it's a terrific deal. and as i said on one of the other programs, the stock market has been rallying for a lot of reasons. came lot of i

congresswoman sylvia garcia is a member of the house judiciary committee. before congress, ms. texas state senate previously. she was the director and presiding judge of the houston municipal system and was all done mike elected city controller. she was later elected the first hispanic and first woman to be elected in her own right, the house county commissioners cou court. as you can see from the descriptions of the emphasis is on litigators. it's on comfort level in the courtroom. the emphasis is making the strongest possible case, to protect and defend our constitution, to seek the truth for the american people. i am very proud and honored that these seven members, distinguished members, have accepted the serious responsibility again to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy. when we leave here a little bit later, noon, we will go to the floor and pass a resolution naming the managers officially. but i wanted to say more about them here, and to say that the decision to come down in favor of litigators is necessitated by the clear evidence that we should ha

val demings and hakeem jeffries have been all over of a can american media with their quotes and sylvia garcia who has spoken spanish on the house floor which has been all over spanish speaking media since that happened. think about jason crow who is a veteran, all of these people are there and they have communities that they can speak to, there's a political argument that will take place both during these weeks where impeachment takes place also in the weeks after, months after as they engage in this great big political fight toward november 2020 election. >> where politics and law collide on this point, one of the things that you teach law students is that, when you make arguments to juries make sure you don't insult the jury. don't make statements that make them feel stupid or ascribe any bad motivations to them. and if there was one major blunder during the argument it was jerry nadler, who got ahead of his talk, the senate could be engaged in a cover up. when he said that, people on the floor recounseled later there was sort om thehe pla tt. and wh notable is that was lisa murkowski, one

schiff, jerrold nadler, hiking jefferies zoe lofgren, val demings, jason crow, and sylvia garcia will act as prosecutors in the senate trial.

congresswoman sylvia garcia of texas, a member of the house judiciary committee before congress ms. garcia was -- served in texas state senate previously. she was the director and presiding judge of the houston municipal system and was elected city comptroller, the first hispanic to be elected in her own right in the harris county commissioner's court. as you can see from the descriptions, the emphasis is on litigators, in the courtroom, and making the strongest case to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the american people. i'm very proud and honored that the 70 members, distinguished members have accepted the serious responsibility again to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy. when we leave here a little bit later at noon, we'll go to the floor and pass the resolution naming the managers officially, but i wanted to say more about them here and to say that the decision to come down in favor of litigators is necessitated by the clear evidence that we should have witnesses and we should have documentation and we have to make the strongest

host: a little bit more on these freshman serving as house managers, sylvia garcia and jason crow, we spoke to them as part of our freshman profile series when they began in 2017 r 2 year term. garcia talked about how she approaches politics. [video clip] >> for us, it is about making change, making a difference for working families to make sure people get a fair shot at the american dream, that kids can have a good education to reach their full potential, that we can take care of people when .hey are sick i still have memories of waiting in line at the welfare clinic to get a shot. we don't want kids to have to do that. for us, it has always been about making sure we take care of others and i think that is something that came from my parents. -- i was thened last one in the family, you just gave it to someone else. we never threw anything away. southshe was born in texas and she is one of 8 of 10 children. talked a little bit about growing up in poverty. you can watch those interviews if you go to our website. jason crow also serving as a house manager, he is a freshman representing

. >> then it was congresswoman sylvia garcia who said that president trump abuses power because public suggested joe biden lead impeachment manager adam schiff got a reaction out of senators from this line. >> thank god, putin says. you've got to give double dribble credit for this. he's made a religious man out of vladimir putin. >> hitting a nerve when he said republican senators voting against the witnesses and testimony were engaged in a cover-up. asking republican senator lisa murkowski told reporters said, i took a very offensive as one who is listening attentively and working hard to get to a fair process, i was offended. she's critical to the democrats' goals to convince four g.o.p. moderates to vote with democrats. >> four brave republicans will come forward and say you can't shut this down without witnesses can be a shut us down without documents. >> he is not alone. speaker every senator up there representing the american people, not donald trump, but representing the american people, should be making sure there are more witnesses. >> leading republicans are pushing back. >>

congresswoman sylvia garcia of texas. congresswoman garcia is a member of the house judiciary committee. before congress, ms. garcia served in texas state senate previously. she was the director and residing judge of the houston municipal system and was elected city controller. ms. garcia was later elected the first hispanic and first woman to be elected in her own right to the harris county commissioners court. as you can see from these descriptions, the emphasis is on litigators. the emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom. the emphasis is making as strong as possible case to protect and defend our constitution, to seek the truth for the american people. i'm very proud and honored that these seven members, distinguished members, have accepted this serious responsibility. again, to protect and defend for the people defending our democracy. when we leave here a little later, at noon, we'll go to the floor and pass the resolution naming the managers officially. i wanted to say more about them here and say the decisio

. >> congresswoman sylvia garcia said president trump blocked more than the 70 document requests and use the power of his office to shut down house committees. >> the president used the authority of his office to wage a misleading public campaign to attack the impingement inquiry. >> lead impeachment manager adam schiff said president trump sold out the culture for his personal benefit. >> i hope it was worth it for the president. because it was not worth it for the united states. >> this senate minority leader gave the team high marks. >> they set a hard bar for the president's council to meet. they played out a series of fax. >> the president's some say they are ready to hear the other side. >> what you'll hear from them is information that is compelling and complete, that is totally exonerating the president. >> texas senator ted cruz said he met with the legal team last night and advised them to focus on the substance. >> focus on making the case on the merits and laying out the factual reasons for the president's innocence. the president is innocent of these charges, the senate

schiff, representative jerry nadler, zoe lofgren, hakeem jeffries, jason crow, val demings, and sylvia garcia. senators will be sworn in as jurors tomorrow by the chief justice. proceedings are expected to get under way in earnest next tuesday january 21. same day the president is scheduled to attend the economic forum in davos, switzerland. and the fight over whether there will be witnesses is far from over. this morning republican lawmakers were once again criticizing speaker pelosi's decision to hold on to these articles of impeachment for almost four weeks now. she offered up this response to those who have questioned that move. >> time has revealed many things. time has been our friend in all of this. because as we've yielded incriminating evidence more truth into the public domain. >> which brings us to our lead-off conversation on this wednesday night where we start out by covering the hill, the white house, and the law. robert costa, national political reporter for the "washington post," moderator of "washington week" on pbs. anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor

and sylvia garcia of texas, a judge in a number of capacities in texas and member of the judiciary committee. we're very honored that you have taken the responsibility, all of you, to bring the articles of impeachment over to the united states senate, with a case for the constitution, a case for the constitution. so back to the children. back to the children. we don't want this president or any president to ever violate the constitution. it is very very important that we see that that constitution is central to who we are as a country. our system of government, our system of government, our constitution, so valued, so respected, hopefully so honored by everyone who takes an oath of office to support and defend it. we see the russians now hacking in ukraine, just came out yesterday, the day before, it just reminds me most americans would think that voters in america should decide who our president is, not vladamir putin in russia deciding who our president is. i'm very concerned that in all of this, whether withholding funds for ukranians, the ukrainian government to fight the russians, wheth

jason crow of colorado and sylvia garcia of texas.t is different group than we had in 1999 this were 13 impeachment managers from the house of representatives. adam schiff impressed house speaker nancy pelosi when he handled impeachment for judge thomas portis in 2010. he will be lead manager. chair of the intelligence committee, not chair of judiciary committee as they prosecute the case before the senate. that said, here is the chair of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler. >> the question, does the senate, the senate is on trial as well as the president. does the senate conduct a trial according to the constitution, to vindicate the republic or does the senate participate in the president's crimes by covering them up? reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell he fought back on that. there is an old expression, that house hot coffee cools in the senate. mcconnell said it is time to break the house's fever. listen. >> this great process of last constitutional resort will be watered down into the kind of

val demmings, seoul loft gren, colorado congressman jason crow, and texas congressman sylvia garcia.ning us, donna edwards and paul buck. what are your thoughts on her picks? >> you know, i was not surprised by some of the picks. i think what the speaker did is she chose workhorses, not show horses, chose people she knows. we have judges, investigators, litigators, people who have been in congress and served in leadership roles. so i think it is a well rounded group of picks and a narrow group, too. i think it is important for the speaker to keep a small group of managers so work can be divvied up, so they can control the narrative they're presenting, the case they're presenting into the united states senate. >> what do you think? >> i think that's absolutely right. there were two things that struck me. one was the number seven. in 1999, there were 13 managers that came down. here w wts to keep it tight. it will wind up being adam schiff's show. he has been in charge the entire time. nancy pelosi clearly trusts him. important to point out there was no reason for all of the hearings t