tillis, mr. toomey. mr. udall, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, ms. warren. mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young. >> the minorit majority leader is recognized. administered as soon as possible. >> the proclamation. >> all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to statesate of the united articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> on my behalf and that of the distinguished democratic leader, i'm about to propound several unanimous consent request that will assist with the organization of the next steps of these proceedings. they deal largely with necessary paperwork incident to the trial. consent that the summons be issued in the usual until 6:00 p.m. on saturday, january 18, 2020 to file his answer with the secretary of the senate and the house of representatives have 20,l 12 noon until january 2020 two file with the secretary of the senate. the secretary of the senate be authorized to print those documents filed by th

tillis, mr. toomey, mr. udall, mr. ben homans, warner, ms. moran, mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young,. >> any senator who is not in the senate chamber at the time the oath was administered to the other senators who make up that fact known to the chair so that the oath may be administered as soon as possible. speemac the sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. >> hear ye hear ye hear ye, all persons are known to keep silent. there will be imprisonment. speemac articles of impeachment against donald john trump. president of the united states. the majority leader is recognized. speemac for the information of the senate, on my behalf and that of the distinguished democratic leader, i am about to remount several unanimous consent requests that will assist with the organization and accepts of these proceedings they deal largely with necessary paperwork incident to the trial. they were poor i ask unanimous consent of the summons to be issued in the usual form provided to the president he may have until 6:00 p.m. on saturday january the 18th, 2020. to follow-up is inser

tillis, mr. toomey. mr. udall, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, ms. warren. mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young. >> a senator 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 the oath may be administered as soon as possible. >> the started in arms will make a proclamation -- the sergeant in arms will make the proclamation. here ye. all persons are committed to keep silent. while he house of exhibiting to the senate articles of impeachment against donald trump, president of the united states. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> for the information the senate, on my behalf and that of the democratic leader, i am about to propound several unanimous consent requests that will assist with the organization of the next steps of these proceedings. they deal largely with necessary paperwork, incident to the trial. therefore, i ask unanimous consent the summons be issued in the usual form, provided to the president may have until 6:00 on saturday january, 18 to file his answer with the secre

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he is the one who i think you're -- tillis has to pay attention, right?ut of these people i think tillis is the one in the strongest position of the vulnerable republicans. i will tell you who has a bigger problem than thom tillis is martha mcsally. >> exactly. i was just going to say -- and, john, by the way, we didn't even talk about arizona and georgia. they are on the board in the presidential race as well. >> right. >> if things tilt a little bit expect arizona and georgia to go blue. >> right. i listed those five -- those five battle ground states, the five primary battle ground states. if you went down to number six, number six would be arizona, the state where democrats will compete, will spend a lot of money. very bad for martha mcsally could have a competitive presidential election happening in arizona where whoever the democratic nominee is is pouring millions of dollars in into that state. she was an appointed senator n a position of weakness. we saw a poll on her just yesterday or the day before that had her down by four or five, six points i

what do you make of thom tillis and martha mcsally leaning hard on the president? they have made the choice to defend the president and try to juice their base. >> yeah, i know that the inflection part for tom till li thom tillis came from reprogramming money for the wall. he said the president didn't have a chance. there were rumors that tillis would face a senate primary challenge and the president would withholdis endorsement, he quickly fell in line and facing a tough re-election, needed the support. mcsally, i think that she knows she is losing so beginning to be aggressively. so a senator who knows that she will lose in november. >> and desiree, once again we fimd ourselves talking about susan collins and lisa murkowski, republican senators who democrats find themselves again depending on a big priority here. and can democrats count on those votes for witnesses? >> i mean, here is what i'll say. for every senator in this, when they are sworn into office, they take an oath to proikprotect th constitution, not a president or the party but the constitution. and

making the comment he made yesterday. >> thom tillis waiting in vain for independent swing voters toim. a guy sitting in low 30s in approving rating in his entire career in the nighunited states snat. be senate. barely won when he won last time. under water, cory gardner in colorado, pounded in head-to-head matchup there. susan collins, joni ernst, thom tillis under water and four of those five, tom, have approval ratings mired in the 30s. and yet these people are still blindly following donald trump a guy who majority of americans want impeached and removed from office. explain it to me, because i don't -- as denzel washington said in "philadelphia," explain it to me like i'm a fifth grader, because i don't understand. >> where are they going to go? they've already let go of the -- they're like a trapeze artist half way across to the other guy, except that donald trump's not there. not there for them. they've taken the leap. they've had to go to the wall early on. i mean, this is a phenomenon we've seen with these so-called moderate republicans, where they think, i just have to defe

tillis went on to win. >> he did. they use these tactics and a successful manner.ohn bolton super pac paid for a third party to rate how successful cambridge analytica had been. they saw on this ad specifically there was over a 36% uplift in engagement on these ads versus the communications they had already been running. what scares me so much is that i know these tactics are being used right now. we are being manipulated in order to support going to war with iran. we are being manipulated in order to believe this type of violence is acceptable and that we should support candidates that support this violence. amy: there are some who have suggested that president trump did this, possibly in part, because he is so deeply concerned about his impeachment trial. and this specifically could be targeted for john bolton former national security advisor, who almost a meal he tweeted "we have been working on this for a long time," talking about the assassination, and that trump is afraid of what he might say. so this would appease him. >> another important tranche of documen

he fund 11 tilly -- down to around 100,000. he fund 11 tilly —— fundamentally failed in that.nister, this is what he is guaranteeing. he went into the general election at the end of last year with this pledge. i guarantee an australian style points based system to control immigration. there are big questions about what he can deliver because this system that they are trying to borrow from australia is about getting skilled people in. it doesn't talk about controlling numbers, it's about skills to the economy. we are waiting to see where borisjohnson will take this in 11 or so months before brexit is completed next december. it is interesting, no longer a kind of numbers game, in terms of the government narrative. but does it make clear and is there a consensus around what is good migration or good immigration and what is not so good immigration?” think what we saw in the general election was the party is subtly shift towards talking about skills, which most experts say, that is very sensible. the issue is if they are focusing on the skills, what type of people do they want in

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of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable thom tillis, a senator from the state of north carolina, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 12:30 p.m. on tuesday, until 12:30 p.m. on tuesday, the senate back in session tuesday with the impeachment trial of president trump starting at 1:00 o'clock eastern time. we will have that live here on c-span2. we now return to the discussion on national security. >> when you look at our deterrent the rest of the world looks at deterrence is integration of offense and defense. that is the way the rest of the world looks at deterrence. when i looked it up they look at our offense and defense and think about that is more deterrence. we need to thing about offense and defense as our integrated deterrence as well. we need to start digging about what the next generation of our defense will be and what we will walk into and then if you want to know how you know that we don't look at

tillis said, quote, i don't think we need witnesses. then here is the latest from senator lindsey graham. >> if people want witnesses, we're going to get a lot of witnesses, this idea of calling one and one makes zero sense to me. if we are going to open this up to additional inquiry, we're going to go down the road was it legitimate for the president to believe there was corruption and conflicts of interest on the bidens part in the ukraine, we will explore that and whether or not there's any credibility to the idea that the dnc may have been working with ukraine. >> what do the american people think about this? 75% of voters in a new quinnipiac poll said witnesses should be allowed to testify in the president's impeachment trial. 75%. broken down by party that includes 49% of republicans, 75% of independents and 95% of democrats. 54% of americans in this poll agreed president trump abused his power regarding his actions in ukraine and 52% say trump obstructed congress regarding its investigation into those actions. so, joe, we have mi

what is joni ernst going the say and cory gardner and martha mcsally and thom tillis? i'll be very interested to see how they handle that in states where they will be facing various races in november. >> one of the counter. pressures is that the democrats had an urgency. why? because we're afraid of what we'll do. that's what they accept saying. we're afraid he'll do more of this. he'll compromise the election. what does that create now as an environment for this election with a boldly reinforced president? >> well, remember the democrats and nancy pelosi who speaks for the democrats in the house did not want to impeach the president. they had all of the motor information. they had all of the obstruction, and she was not moved by that. what moved the democrats and the entire caucus the fact that looking back wasn't a reason to impeach trump, but looking forward, the fact that he might cheat and steal on the election, that was a reason to impeach him. >> you've got a lot of work to do on that narrative, though, joe. i think the more popular narrative was they wanted him

tillis, mr. toomey, mr. udall, mr. mr. van holland, ms. warren, mr. warner mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young >> any senator who is not in the senate chamber at the time the oath was administered to the other senators we will make that fact known to the chair so the oath may be administered as soon as possible. >> the sergeant at arms will make the population. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. while the house of representatives exit exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> majority leader is recognized. >> mr. chief justice, for the information of the senate on my behalf and on that of the english democrat leader i'm about to propound several unanimous consent request level as us with the organization of the next steps of these proceedings. they deal largely with necessary paperwork incident to the trial. therefore i ask unanimous consent the summons be issued in the usual form provided so the president may have u

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

>> tillis. >> tillis to a lesser extent, but i don't necessarily see it having a huge impact. >> i don'tt's a long time, and we don't know who the nominees are going to be, but i also think that the conventional wisdom was that if you go for impeachment in the democratic party, it's going to kill you. you can't -- you can't go for impeachment. nancy pelosi at the beginning didn't want to impeach. she thought it wasn't a good idea unless the public was behind you, et cetera, et cetera. i think now it could be a wash. it gives the democrats a talking point to use against this president, and you already heard chuck schumer using it. and you have republicans now on the record -- you just heard toomey and you heard lamar alexander saying what the president did was wrong. >> inappropriate. >> inappropriate. inappropriate. >> that's the word they used. there's a big difference. inappropriate is what my ten-year-old does. >> and i'm wondering if, by the end of whenever this ends, if you're going to have a couple more republicans come out and say that? of course, in the house none of them did. no

susan collins of maine, cory gardner of colorado, martha mcsally of arizona and tom ti tillis. 49% saying yes and 48% saying no. when it comes to the actual act of removing the president from office. a two-thirds vote of the entire upper house of congress meaning 67 out of 100 senators need to vote in favor of impeachment. that, by all estimates, is a high bar. with me from washington, nbc news correspondent heidi, former senior adviser to president obama and now president and ceo at the senator for american progress nara and house spemich steele. thank you for joining us. heidi, let's start with you. the stakes this week higher than they were last week. we got strong presentations from the democratic house managers, we then got theomeeni ompening statements from the president's team and this is the week where senators could ask questions and make a decision on whether to vote on witnesses and documents. so this week matters. >> this is the week where we are going to see whether this is going to be in the estimation by those percentages you just provided. the american people get the trial

tom tillis from north carolina. introducing andy mccarthy a moment ago, he is saying just like rick scott said last night with brats, lindsey graham said last night with martha that they believe they can ended on friday. and it is possible, we have to see how it floats out in the next couple of days, negotiations going on behind the scenes. but i thought the two interviews are very interesting, especially the questions that either got miss answered or docked. your question about what happens if it is 50/50, what happens, bill, it is up to chief justice roberts to decide. he can decide to be assertive and actually cast a vote, or he can decide -- advocate is the wrong word, but he can decide to restrain himself and not vote in which case the motion would not carry, because it does not have -- it would effectively be voting against, because the motion will not carry and have 51. that's what would happen. in the impeachment of andrew johnson, justice chase did both. ruled a couple of times and then stayed his hand once

he's great tom tillis, who's doing pretty well is what i'm understanding, tom tillis where's tom? by the way -- thank you, roger is there anybody i didn't introduce? i would like to apologize immediately. where's rick he's been one of the greats. i figured he was over there. rick, why are you not over there, rick? rick scott has been so incredible great governor of florida. great, great governor. now he's a great senator thank you very much. the rest of you i don't have to bother with. i'm kidding. you know the way it works in life, right? trying to teach here but you can actually teach me. i want to really thank all of those people and also with us is kevin mccarthy and kevin brady and mike conaway and verne scalise. they've been incredible from day one. literally 100 other congress men and women. we appreciate you being there. kevin, congratulations on your big victory yesterday. that was incredible. and he's also a tremendous fund-raiser, not that that matters. we don't even think about that but that was a big victory you had. thank you very much. also here many of the state an

>> i would bet under four. >> trace: under four, senator thom tillis, always good to see you, thank you. we are tracking some action on iran, new arrests after a passenger jet got blown out of the sky. new threats after america's allies agreed to get tougher on tehran, and a new hearing that the secretary of state decided to skip from the journalists of fox news, this is "fox news reporting." e-ida golds are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime. and let me tell you something, rodeo... potato pay them to. i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it's helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan, like any other. big difference is how you pay it back. find out how reverse mortgages really work with aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage guide. eliminate monthly mortgage pay

this is about tom tillis. this is about martha mc sally. this is cory gardner. chuck schumer has said as much. this is only partly about removing donald trump and taking his name off of the ballot. it is also about chuck schumer trying to make himself majority leader of the united states senate and there is no way to deny it because he himself has confirmed it. >> there should be more witnesses and documents because no evidence has come out, there was a recording literally obtain showing donald trump was in favor of taking out the us ambassador in the ukraine. can you respond to the idea that in a trial there has to be evidence, witnesses and documents as they come to have a fair trial? >> there will be new evidence every day. there will be something new that comes out every day and the house has said we will continue to investigate. house members said we may bring additional articles of impeachment. there is nothing to stop the house from continuing along that line but when the house managers say the evidence is overwhelming, it is a rocksolid case and a mounta

on twitter, during the break, senator susan collins said loudly to senators murkowski, thune, and tillis that she would like the first row of the press gallery to be kept empty and that reporters should only be seated from the second row back, motioning to the sparse remaining press, myself included. why do you imagine she would do something like that? >> you know why? because those reporters are leaning over, and they're looking into the chamber, and they're reporting on what the senators are doing. and, you know, let's face it. these senators like senator collins, they're all under water in their states in terms of their disapproval numbers going up. they have to be looking at that as well, and i think senator collins doesn't want that news going back to maine. >> so the senators, eugene, the reports today, we know who's been reading books. >> uh-huh. >> we know who's been drawing pictures of the capitol, who's been doing crossword puzzles. >> right. >> too much detail? >> well, you know, i mean it's fascinating detail. i'm all in favor of the detail. it's kind of embarrassing, i think

senator thom tillis is our guest next.re does he stand on the issue of witnesses in a senate trial? >> we'll be doing with the witness issue at the appropriate time. i think it is appropriate to point out that both sides would want to call witnesses that they wanted to hear from. >> man: what's my safelite story? i spend a lot of time in my truck. it's my livelihood. ♪ rock music >> man: so i'm not taking any chances when something happens to it. so when my windshield cracked... my friend recommended safelite autoglass. >> tech: hi, i'm adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. >> tech: oh, no problem. >> tech: check it out. >> man: yeah. they came right to me, with expert service where i needed it. that's service i can trust... no matter what i'm hauling. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ the better question would be where do i not listen to it. while i'm eating my breakfast... on the edges of cliffs... on a ski lift... everywhere. for a limited time, go to audible.com to save $50 on your first year

tillis? mr. tillis aye. mr. toomey? mr. toomey aye. mr. udall? mr. udall no. mr. van hollen? mr.ren no. mr. white house? mr. white house no. mr. wicker? mr. wicker aye. mr. widen? mr. wyden no. mr. young? mr. young aye. >>> we're watching what could probably be a foredoomed set of votes. we don't know yet, of course. three of the proposals are amendments by chuck schumer, the democratic leader. one is to subpoena an array of appropriate witnesses. mick mulvaney, john bolton, michael duffey, blair, both omb people. let's listen to the chair. >> the motion is agreed to. >> to -- >> that was a motion to deny that proposal. >> to subpoena john r. bolton. i ask that it be read. >> the clerk will report. >> the senator from new york, mr. schumer, proposed an amendment number 1296 at the appropriate place in the revolving clause insert the following. section notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution pursuant to rules 5 and 6 of the rules of procedure and practice in the senate when sitting on impeachment trials, the chief justice of the united states, the secretary of the s

axios is now reporting that democrats chances to call witnesses could be fading with senator thom tillis now officially a know and senators joni ernst and cory gardner likely to vote no against additional testimony. >> jose: there is no surprise, republicans in the senate, making it impossible for house democrats to make their case and making the case to the american people. what i tell them is this, the president you are setting yourself for -- >> harris: we did hear from senator lindsey graham, he wasn't in his seat a at this pot because he was giving a news conference yesterday. we also have heard from senator marco rubio who said, keep it to the scope of a where it is now, making a quick trial and move on, go for the facts and the evidence democrats say they have and they've already presented. >> jose: if the president did nothing wrong, why can't republican senators allow witnesses to come forth? >> lisa: 95 democrats vote for an al green resolution prior to the zelensky call taking place, the vote happen before then. democrats like maxine waters, the chairman of the financial servi

guest: tillis represents north carolina. north carolina continues to be the emerging battleground state. republicans have done a little bit better there, but stilton is likely to face a democrat named cal cunningham. i expect that to be a close race, when he was first elected was extremely close. it is also going to be expensive. north carolina has multiple media markets and those will be flooded. senator mcsally of arizona -- i would put her as the second most vulnerable republican senator, even ahead of susan collins. she lost the senate race in 2018. she was an appointed that she -- she was appointed to the seat. i am not sure why we would give her an advantage. she has proven to be a good fundraiser, but she is running against mark kelly, the retired astronaut husband of former ,ongresswoman, gabby gifford who is maybe the best democratic fundraiser on that side of the aisle. so she has a tough race. she has clearly chosen to go all in with the president. the president won arizona in 2016. there is no guarantee that the

mr through me no mr tillis no mr toomey no mr udall. mr van hollen. mr warner. ms warren. mr white house. mr wicker no mr wyden. mr young no mr blumenthal. are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change his or her vote. if not the yeas are $49.00 the nays are $51.00 the motion is not agreed to. so that's the senate to the voting to defeat the motion to cool witnesses in the trial of the impeachment trial of president donald trump which means that this is effectively the end of the road so they will now be moving to vote eventually on a on the charges themselves. on the impeachment charges let's bring in. who is on capitol hill so it goes into recess and that vote of 51 to 49 and i suppose no surprises because if we were starting to hear in the last couple of days that mentum was going against the democrats and that they weren't going to win the possibility of bringing in further witnesses. that's right and that's despite today's latest development which was a report from the new york times that john bolton who had been at the top of the list most coveted by democr

tom tillis, doing pretty well is what i'm understanding. where's tom? and roger wicker.s there anybody, thank you, roger. roger, is there anybody i didn't introduce? i would like to apologize immediately. where's rick? he's been one of the great. i figured he was over there. rick, why are you not over there, rick? rick scott has been so incredible. great governor of florida. great, great governor. now he's a great senator. thank you very much. the rest of you i don't have to bother with. you know the way it works in life, right? trying to teach you. i want to really thank all of those people and also with us is kevin mccarthy and kevin brady and mike conaway and verne buchanan, steve scalise. they have been incredible from day one. literally a hundred other wonderful congress men and women, we appreciate you being here. kevin, congratulations on your big victory yesterday. that was incredible. he's also a tremendous fundraiser. not that that matters. we don't even think about that. but that was a big victory yesterday. thank you very much. also here are many of the state

now, quickly turning to guidance, senators tillis, purdue, rounds and i asked for its legal opinion as to whether supervision and regulation letters constitute a rule under the congressional rule act. in its october response, gao concluded two of the letters, including one providing a new supervision framework for large financial institutions and another related to recovery planning are rules under the cra and are required to be submitted to congress for review. during the banking committee's april hearing on this very issue i urged your agencies to follow the cra and submit all rules to congress. even if they have not gone through a formal notice and comment rule making. to continue providing more clarity about the applicability of guidance. i encouraged the federal banking regulators to take a more deliberate approach going forward and take any necessary steps to rectify informal guidance that has not been submitted to congress. in january 2019, the ncua announce aid portion of regulations that would be reviewed as part of the process through which the agency the comment period for t

resolution, there is a little bit of restlessness in the ranks among vulnerable senators, tom til thom tillis. gardner a statement was so vanilla, you know it was right down the middle, saying i support the clinton proposal, it could have been something you put out in 1999. there are two ways to read this. one, fact that mcconnell had to switch rlgd o resolution on e flying then that one documented vote 53-47. and hir here later on another ot table, not up or town but to set, side next schumer proposal, they are debating now, that superintendent -- souq. >> thank you very much chad. >> hillary clinton takes a shot at her 2016 primary opponent, bernie sanders, what will this mean for the democratic candidate in the primaries in we'll debate that, coming next. ♪ where others see chaos, we see patterns. ♪ connections. relationships. ♪ when you use location technology, you can see where things happen, before they happen. ♪ with esri location technology, you can see what others can't. ♪ we do things differently and aother money managers, don't understand why. because our way works great for us! bu

if you look at ernst in iowa, tillis in north carolina, mccallly is arizona, gardner in colorado. you add additional pressure, like wipe out levels of turn out on the democratic side, then republicans will worry about who the candidate is in kansas because a democrat won the governorship there last year. they worry about how much money john cornyn would have to spend in texas. they would worry about losing the majority. it is a question what they can defend as a process. if this stuff will come out anyway, just seems a big risk to shut it down and say, we just couldn't, we couldn't handle did this anymore. we had too much legislation we had to do. the democrats will do ads. they will look at legislation to come out in months to come. it will not be a heavy load. it will be hard for senators up for re-election who need votes beyond the base. the president campaigns for the base only but senator tillis knows to win in north carolina he has to overperform trump. he has to win people outside of the traditional trump coalition. they know to hang on, have a majority that makes mitch mcc

they had to get it to the senate and now he wants cory gardner and thom tillis and martha mcsally toast difficult votes on something he should have done months ago. >> martha: i thought it was interesting there was a lot of discussion about hamilton but there has been lot of discussion about the founding fathers. adam schiff said this in his opening argument, invoking hamilton for the prosecution side. watch this. >> we are here today in this hollow chamber undertaking the solemn action for the third time in history because donald j. trump, the 45th president has acted precisely as hamilton and his contemporaries feared. >> martha: he is referring to the section where hamilton spoke about bold individuals where it gets out of control for his own power. i am badly paraphrasing hamilton there. here's the quote the white house put out today that they feel is the significant one. hamilton and jefferson warned about this for political purposes. they warned that impeachment was to be used for only the most egregious offenses. how do you parse those two things? how do you figure out what th

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those include collins, thom tillis, cory gardner, and martha mcsally of arizona. liz?iz: chad, thank you very much. we're tracking information coming in that president says pelosi and house intelligence chair adam schiff should testify. as even members of the media saying pelosi's strategy is failing. that includes this "washington post" journalist. watch this. >> she is clearly putting a positive spin on what a lot of democrats privately said was a failed strategy. she and chuck schumer minority leader in the senate set out number one try to get a commitment from mcconnell first-hand witnesses to have them testify in senate trial. she wanted to see a resolution about you know, how the whole proceedings would be governed. she got neither of those. liz: democrats credibility on impeachment getting worse by the hour. it is being called hurry up and wait impeachment. pelosi finally moving on something she said herself would be divisive to the country. look who is here. republican ben klein, member of house judiciary. good to see you, sir. your reaction to all of that? >>

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, president of the united states. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> for the information of the senate on my behalf and that of the distinguished democratic leader i'm about to propound several unanimous consent requests that will assist with the organization of the next steps of these proceedings. they deal largely with necessary paperwork incident to the trial. therefore, i ask unanimous consent that the summons be issued in the usual f

thom tillis should be feeling the heat.r alexander, an he's not running again. trump can't do anything to him. watch him for potentially breaking on the eventual vote after the arguments to get bolton in the door, but mitch mcconnell will win this vote today because he wouldn't put it on the floor if he wasn't confident he had 51. i think susan collins will break today, but she'll be the only one. >> and after that, more may break. >> i'm predicting that. >> you have a lot to do on that binder. special coverage starting at 9:00. >> a lot of rules and new rules. >> good to see you. >> we'll be watching you guys in a few minutes. >> a new interview out this morning where hillary clinton has fiery words for her former 2016 democratic opponent bernie sanders saying, quote, nobody likes him. she sat down to talk about her new hulu documentary series set to premier at the sun dance film festival. the hollywood reporter noted in the documentary clinton says that sanders, quote, was in congress for years. he had one senator support

house tell mike a trial is now in sight for impeachment a reaction from north carolina senator john tillisplus, the trump administration thing one of iran's top generals was announcing a an attack before the president decided to take him out. that's all coming up on "the daily briefing." >> harris: "the washington post" is reporting the department of justice found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing surrounding the clinton foundation. in 2015, jeff sessions looked into possible corruption of that foundation and whether it played a role in the uranian one deal. doj officials tell fox news the investigation is not official closed yet, but this is what they found. here are now at jason chaffetz, former's house over's chairman and a fox news contributor. what are we looking at? >> i don't necessarily believe "the washington post." these are the same folks that told us there was no fisa abuse or anything else. i don't know if it is true yet. i will tell you that about six months ago the concern coming from jim jordan and mark meadows become a congressman in the house, is that there were whistle-

another thom tillis said bolton's book hasn't affected his decision, stating, quote, i don't think weeed witnesses. and here's the very latest from senator lindsey graham. >> if people want witnesses we're going to get a lot of witnesses. calling one and one makes zero sense to me. if we're going to open up this to encourainquiry, we're going down the road. and whether or not there's any credibility to the idea that dnc may have been working with ukraine. >> so lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff spoke to reporters yesterday saying democrats are prepared to hear testimony from national security adviser john bolton. he also weighed in on the calls himself for him to testify. >> mr. schiff, are you confident enough that the senate will call witnesses at your beginning preparations for that, if so, how? and republicans have raised your name in some of these conversations, are you, yourself, prepared to possibly to be dragged into this? >> well, first, are we preparing? you know, we have been preparing for john bolton now that we know more of what he's is most likely to say. most cruc

and senator thom tillis when asked about bringing in new witness said i really wish the house had done job so you weren't having to ask me that question. they seem to have done a lousy job. that's a pretty scathing indictment of democrats, but the judge did subpoena parnas and he can turn his information to congress and as a result talk about it, but let's not let exacts and lev parnas has been indicted from tunnelling money to buy lit cal influence and he's out on bail. prosecutors have argued to try to coopel seal his assets and tell me why you think he should be aible witness. >> what i am thinking to myself at this point is that he is believable when you listen to him and both his interviews on cnn and msnbc and he has documentation and they match up, so it's not just him, it's john bolton, it's other people. it's mick mulvaney who said this is how we do things. it's the gao. >> which i think is the biggest bombshell no one can say anything about the gao. the government accountability office both sides trust them. they said the president broke the law, so when i look at my republic

tillis knows that. mcsally knows that. cornyn knows that. and cory gardner knows that.t knows that. force the vote on a fair trial. >> what happened to the republican party? the opposition party, from your thinking, the party that wasn't evil, wasn't stupid, now, i mean, i noticed in the whole day of defending trump not a single republican member of the house, they're all some of them smart, in the one of them said one good thing about donald trump personally. nobody -- nobody spoke for his character. nobody said he's a good, honest, guy. i mean, it was immaculate, immaculate. not a single positive comment, yet, they bow to him like he's the emperor of sian. they bow to him without ever respecting him personally. how do you explain? >> right. look, the republican party that you and i knew does that exist. there's only trump and trumpism. the republicans are going to do nothing about it. it is up to the democrats. it is up to the democrats to eradicate this scourge, and the way to do that is by massive and humiliating election defeat. it's no republican is going to come

go block witnesses, this is martha something sally from arizona, corey gardener from colorado, tom tillis from north carolina. these are key -- joey earnst from iowa. these are key senators who have now basically gone off the hook because we have been focusing on lamar alexander, a buddy of mitch mcconnell who honestly in retrospect was never going to vote against mitch mcconnell. joanie earnst, mcsally, gardener, they could have voted against mitch mcconnell. they could have voted to not block witnesses, but they decided not to. so i think this whole thing has been theater. and what this latest development shows is the fix has been in since the very beginning. >> tim miller, i don't know. you and i talked a few times this weekend. it's getting a bit blurry to me. this is a point you made some point earlier this week. everybody needs to stop being fixated on those people, republican senators who are in tough reelection battles and talk more broadly about those who were in a position to do the right thing and are off the hook. i've seen it on twitter tonight. why are people not talking abo

he doesn't want that he wants cory and martha and joni ernst and thom tillis to vote on these witnesses knows he is not going to get a conviction. he wants to take the senate so the second donald trump term beginning in 2021 is neutered of because chuck schumer is the majority leader. if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, nothing can share you, sean. >> sean: what do they want to do then? put another 13 million americans on food stamps? they want to bribe the mullahs with more money in iran? good point, trey gowdy thank you. >> yes, sir. >> sean: go ahead, sir. >> you see the new point employee is prince was involved, i wonder who would be third in line for the presidency. oh, yeah. >> sean: that's called the nightmare, you know, horror show. >> armageddon. green green thank you, mccormick. martha mcsally calls out fake news cnn yesterday. the fake news network are outraged. senator mcsally is not apologizing nor should she. she is next. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find

sort of swing state republicans up this year, mcsally, ernst maybe in iowa, gardner in colorado, tillis in north carolina, they're not getting to the general election unless they first get through republican primaries. i think it's complicated their political thinking on this significantly. >> bob costa, you could make an argument that these party caucuses spend nowhere near this much quality time together during the legislative year this. is highly unusual. they're lunching together as a caucus every day. they are intentionally seated there without any devices on the senate floor for hours on end. this could make for some real discomfort with the former standard bearer of the republican party, mitt romney. >> it's clear that many of senator romney's colleagues don't exactly love him on the republican side. he's someone with strong opinions, a national profile. he has not made many friends. he is respected by conservatives in the senate for having his own point of view. but just because senator romney is speaking up about witnesses does not necessarily mean that leader mcconnell is list