During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that Senate Democrats “have called for a fair trial that includes relevant documents and witness testimony” and hopes Senate Republicans agree that those conditions should be adhered to. Kaine said,
During an interview aired on Saturday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Smerconish,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said he believes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has the votes to begin the Senate’s impeachment trial with the House presenting its case, then President
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said she hopes that after reviewing the House’s impeachment record, the Senate will “decide that there is no need for additional witnesses” in the Senate’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he was surprised by the number of people who joined President Trump’s impeachment defense team and predicted that House impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) will “walk all over them. Because he
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the dispute between 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over whether Sanders said a woman can’t be president is “a little bogus” given
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that if President Trump is listening to her, she would “want him to know that he is impeached forever.” Pelosi said, “[I]f the president is
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang joked that his parents told him an Asian person couldn’t win the presidential election. Host Bill Maher quipped that he doesn’t see color, but his staff told
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who will be part of President Trump’s impeachment legal team, argued that “abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense.” Dershowitz began by stating that
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that it’s “logical” that President Trump knew Lev Parnas due to Parnas’ association with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, there will be “all kinds of documentary evidence” of
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham stated that she sometimes wonders if the timing of the delivery of the articles of impeachment to the Senate was designed to help
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that he “would rather be in Iowa” than in Washington for the Senate’s impeachment trial, but he took an oath and he thinks people will
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that in the Senate’s impeachment trial, “the president’s lawyers deserve to pull in whoever they feel contributes to their case,” and that senators “should not be determining who is
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted that the Senate’s impeachment trial will be over with by President Trump’s State of the Union Address on February 4th.
During an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Lev Parnas stated that his and Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine were “never about corruption” and were “all about” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman and House Impeachment Manager Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that the House didn’t hear from “many” of the witnesses they should have during their impeachment proceedings, but they “heard from enough
In audio of the post-debate exchange between 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released by CNN on Wednesday, both candidates accused each other of throwing around accusations of dishonesty on national TV. Warren said,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) stated that calling witnesses in the Senate’s impeachment trial is a “slippery slope” that “we would like to avoid.” Tillis also predicted that most senators will
During CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones said that the debate was “dispiriting” because he didn’t see anything that would be able to defeat President Trump. Jones said, “As
During CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones praised the performance of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and stated that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “stepped on” “a banana peel” over his
During Tuesday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addressed the dispute between her and fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over whether Sanders said a woman couldn’t win the presidential election
During Tuesday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for cuts in the Department of Defense’s budget and argued that the U.S. needs to “think about our defense in very different ways” and “depend
During a press conference on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that there is “little or no sentiment” among Senate Republicans for a motion to dismiss the impeachment articles against President Trump, and Senate Republicans feel that they
During a press conference on Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) stated that his war powers resolution has enough votes to pass the Senate due to the support of Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Todd Young (R-IN), and Susan
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Sanders campaign senior adviser Jeff Weaver stated that there were “wires crossed” regarding what Sanders said about women winning the presidential race during a conversation with fellow 2020 candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) argued that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden should vow to avoid campaigning during the Senate’s impeachment trial if he believes that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) didn’t delay sending the impeachment articles to the Senate “for him.”
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) stated that the reported hacking of Ukrainian gas company Burisma is another example of Russia doing “dirty work” for President Trump.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that an image President Trump retweeted depicting both Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wearing traditional Muslim attire and in front of an Iranian flag “makes enacting a War Powers Act so important. Because it shows that this president, when it comes to things like this, is almost out of control.”
While speaking to reporters on Monday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said that he is keeping an open mind on which witnesses he wants to hear from in the Senate impeachment trial, and wants to hear from former National Security Adviser
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that during a phone conversation earlier that day with Iraq’s ambassador to the United States, the ambassador described what sounded like “a process being set in place to
On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) predicted that the Senate’s impeachment trial will not have witnesses and will be over “pretty fast.” Scott said, “I think both sides are going to present their case. We’ll get to
