[cheers and applause] senator sanders: i am a united states senator, and i hear a lot of speeches on the floor of the senate from conservative republicans, and their mantra is that they believe in small government. they believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people. well, i say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, understand that it is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: and i want to speak to the men here today, because women now are under political assault all over this country. men, stand with the women. they need your help. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: and my promise to you is i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or the federal bench who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: trump and his friends want massive cuts to planned parenthood. [booing] senator sanders: well, we have some bad news for them. we are going to greatly expand funding for planned parenthood. [chee

time in the senate. so there was no guaranteed audience. any senator could be there or not depending on whether or not they felt like listening to one of their colleagues. when senator romney gave these historic remarks today, there were a grand total of four senators in the room there listening to him. four. senator roger wicker of mississippi, who's a republican, and then three democrats. pat leahy of vermont, brian schatz of hawaii, and chris murphy of connecticut. and of those four senators who were in the room when mitt romney gave those remarks today, at least two of the four senators who were in the room with him left the floor in tears when it was over. including senator chris murphy of connecticut who spoke with reporters just after he walked off the floor. just after senator romney finished. listen to this. >> i was in the chamber to hear that. you know, i've gotten to know him pretty well over the course of the last year. i think history will judge that to be one of the more important speeches

senator shelby: i want to follow up on what senator murray was talking about. one, it seems to me is at the outset that this request for the money, the supplemental, is low-balling it, possibly. and you can't afford to do that. i hope the add -- we want to help the administration. we want to help you do your job. but if you low ball something like this, you'll pay for it later. but you're not only dealing with the crisis, you are dealing with the perception and concern of the american people. right? both, at the same time. i know you can't develop a vaccine and immunize everybody in america from something that's just fallen on us all at once. and the world. coming at you. what are you specifically doing -- what are your guidelines and this administration to contain this in america? we do not want this to spread. if it spreads, it's going to be hard to contain. what are you doing or what do you propose to do? what's your message to the american people? they are watching this hearing. secretary azar: the steps the president has taken are the most aggressive conta

unfortunately, in the senate, when articles of impeachment are brought and sent to the senate, the senate by constitutional law must stop what it's doing, must open an impeachment hearing, and while in an informal -- and while a formal, a formal impeachment hearing, the senate cannot do anything else by law. it goes into legislative shutdown by law. in this case, if we were to call additional witnesses, then we would be setting a dangerous precedent for every future case. the house could theoretically make up any flimsy charge they wanted with no investigation, no witnesses, no testimony, no evidence whatsoever, and then send the articles to the senate and expect the senate to do their job. that's not what the founders wrote. that's not what they had in mind. it would open up a pandora's box, shut the senate down indefinitely, and you can see why the founders did not want to go down that road. that's not how they built this process. for the sake of our very system of government, we cannot yield to this unconstitutional effort. the house actually did call 17 witnesses. they sent over 193 v

senator after senator has said we're not doing a lot of business in the senator these days. they are not passing a whole lot of bills. why not hear from the person who was in the room where it happened? >> for the republicans in the senate, it is a political calculation. by calling these witnesses, by having someone testify, potentially give devastating testimony against the president would cost them politically. you look at mitt romney who voted in favor of witnesses, cpac, the conservative organization that has their confab every year disinvited him publicly. he was the 2012 gop nominee, but that has now made him persona th nongrata. people didn't understand why he was there, they wanted to hear rick santorum and other conservatives. t ted cruz. and now this organization as well as everything within the republican party is trump's party and if you go against him, there will be political consequences to pay. that is the -- it is not a piece of evidence, but that is a huge factor. >> for those of us who hadn't watched impeachments closely, that is the takeaway that we have,

[cheers and applause] senator sanders: i am a united states senator and i am on the floor of the senate very often listening to speeches from republican conservatives. [booing] senator sanders: as you know, their mantra, what they talk about all the time is that they believe in small government. they believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, and what i say tonight to those hypocrites -- [cheers and applause] senator sanders: if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, understand that it is women who have the right to control their own bodies. not the government. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: my promise to you is i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or the federal bench who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: we will codify roe v. wade, put it into law, and we will significantly expand funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: as a united states senator, i do understand the power of the corporate elite and the 1%. [chanting] >> bernie! berni

senators -- alex: senators klobuchar and warren are not on the top of the ticket. how much pressure will you put on the party to use a democratic candidate? stephanie: i can't imagine we would have a democratic ticket without a woman on it. we will be very, very focused on it. we intend to have the top of the ticket, but when i speak about how democrats win, and how they won in 2018, if you think about the 2018 historic election, where we were able to add 41 new women to the united states house of representatives, democratic women. that was driven, one by an electorate in battleground house districts. that was 54 percent women. the electorate itself was 54% women. , thee gender gap support those democratic women were getting, is why we were able to take the house back. the party is really driven by women, and we believe that is how we are going to win this presidential election. it is going to be women of all backgrounds, african-american, whites, white, college-educated. we have definitely seen swings in the suburbs where we have women looking for someone who is g

good to have you with us. >> and now the massachusetts democratic senate debate between incumbent senator ed marquis and congressman joseph kennedy. this is courtesy of wgbh tv in boston. announcer: the first massachusetts senate primary debate between incumbent senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy, broadcasting across the commonwealth in partnership with wcai. here are our moderators, jim braude and margery eagan. >> welcome to our audience, the first debate in the senate race closely watched across the country. >> with an incumbent who served in both the house and senate, challenger with seven years under his belt in the house, their first opportunity to air their differences and views. as for the rules there's no rules. no opening statements, no closings. no time limits although we will keep track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. we want to cover a lot of ground so brevity is appreciated. we encourage you to talk to each other and since we're asking our audience not to applaud during the debate, we'd like to take a minute to give senator ed markey and congressm

the senate will be dark over the weekend. no senate trial tomorrow. even though the senate rules for impeachment require a saturday session. they will come back on monday at 11:00 in the morning and that's when they will move to the final arguments by the house democratic impeachment managers and the defense counsel. up to four hours on that and then senators can also make their closing arguments on this as well during the day on monday and tuesday. and then you will have state of the union, of course tuesday and then in the resolution -- sure, let's listen. >> martha: here is leader mcconnell let's listen. >> is there objection? without objection so ordered. the democratic leader is recognized. >> mr. chief justice, i have a parliamentary inquiry. >> the democratic leader will state the inquiry. >> is the chief justice aware that in the impeachment trial of president johnson, chief justice chase as presiding officer cast tie breaking votes on both march 31st and april 2nd, 1868? >> i am, mr. leader. the one concerned a motion to adjourn. the other co

senate. they have just defeated a motion to allow new witnesses to appear before the trial of president of the united states. >> the president will be acquitted in a bipartisan manner. >> this country is headed towards its greatest cover up since watergate. >> public health officials are on edge as the novel coronavirus first identified in china don't spread. >> it presents a public health emergency in the united states. >>>

how long is the senator romney going to be in the doghouse? >> the most important vote is the next boat. >> what is the agenda going forward into the animosity and y between the speaker and the president of the state of the union speech my biggest is as you know we have pretty different approaches to america's problems in th the hoe and senate. the senate. i think that we have a chance to do some business. i certainly hope so. we work on an infrastructure and there are even in the midst of the election some things i think we can do together and even though several of you are completely bought into the notion that they are somehow totally dysfunctional, i would point you back to the end of last year there were a number of dramatic bipartisan accomplishments in the overall spending bills at the end of the year that didn't move across the floor independently but in that bill were a huge number of priorities on both sides if they get negotiated on a bipartisan basis. look what the house passes and what we do. we have some big differences thethat w

i think some of the senators let senator alexander speak for them. i melt with the senator today. he was very thoughtful about his decision. a big thing for him was thefa s that the caw culls were on monday. he thinkthere would be bad public reaction to try and remove a president right now ana hented nothing to do wit it. he did talk a lot about the fac that he thought the public would not semithis decision at this point. i thinthat weighed heavily in his deliberation. robert: susan, beyond those consideration, what about president trump's influence on how republicans voted? is ts totally his party at this moment? susan: yeah, this is trump's party. even senators - republican senators running in competitive states in places like arizona and colorado stuck with the president on this because they've made the clarification that they want to get re-- calculation if they want to get voted for this november, theyne to stand on trump's side. just this evening,mitt romney, who didn't volt, by the way, to contributeruresident. he only voted the listen to some witnesses. was disinvited by t

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senate here on c-span2 . some of you are probably wondering what's left to be said after listening to this for the last two or three weeks. as you know i'm occasionally rather parsimonious at times with comments and i thought it best to wait until this is behind us before having a more open discussion with all of you about what we've just witnessed. now, let me start by saying i don't think any of you doubt that this was the most partisan of exercises. we all fully remembered and it's been said numerous times, the speaker said roughly a year ago you shouldn't go forward with an impeachment if it was not bipartisan. i've watched it very carefully over the years, our leadership positionoverlapped and even before then , we were working together on appropriation bills back in the early days. i'm pretty sure she didn't want to do this . but the fact that she was pulled into this direction against what appeared to be her political instincts a year ago underscores that this was a purely political exercise. now, havi

chair moran: senator tester, thank you. senator thune. senator thune: thank you for having this important hearing on a subject many on this committee and around the country care deeply about. i will get into northern latitudes and rural schools. summer league is prized as you know of nine schools throughout seven states and home to south dakota state university, the university of south dakota. several of the states are they have schools are contemplating legislation to address student athlete compensation. are conferences today equipped to comply with a patchwork of state laws that seek to address this issue? mr. emmert: thank you for the question, senator. i think your question applies to both you shallon and rural environments and the answer is in short, no, they are not. in large part most conferences, virtually all of them, have interstate boundaries as does the summit conference. having states with mull tip -- having conferences with multiple state rules within them would be incredibly dysfunctional for the reasons we have been discu

senators finally left the senate chamber around 8:00 p.m. tonight and this trial of the president will reconvene monday 11:00 a.m. and have four hours of closing arguments. the senate will then go into a legislative session which means senators will have the chance to make the kind of statements one do in deliberations but those are just for public consumption. and we know the verdict will happen wednesday 4:00 p.m. on tuesday after senate finished making their statements about whether or not to remove trump from office, the president will come on down to congress and give his "state of the union" address. this is right before the eve of the senate votes to deal with the serd. all of that of course 9:00 p.m. eastern like usual. buckle up. we wanted to give you that update as we've following every aspect of this. it's a big week next week. that does it for us tonight. i can tell you rachel will be right back here monday for special coverage of the iowa caucus. lawrence o'donnell is next. wa caucus lawrence o'donnell is next daddy? yeah? who's

they created the senate. out of necessity james madison wrote "of some stable institution in the government, of some stable institution in the government." today we will fulfill this founding purpose. we will reject this incoherent case that comes nowhere near, nowhere near justifying the first presidential removal in history. this partisan impeachment will end today. but i fear the threat to our institutions may not. because this episode is one of a symptom of something much deep deeper. in the last three years, the opposition to this president has come to revolve around a truly dangerous concept. leaders in the opposite party increasingly argue that if our institutions don't produce the outcomes they like, our institutions themselves must be broken. one side has decided that defeat simply means the whole system is broken. that we literally tear up the rules. and write new ones. normally, normally when a party loses an election, it accepts defeat. it reflects andrew toole's. but not this time. within months,

the senators, the senate. no one else. we are responsible to the people of the united states to run this trial. we were trusted by the founders to live up to those responsibilities. when we sit as a court of impeachment, it is all on us. the founders put it squarely on us, and we took that job when we took our oaths. that means we control the trial rulings, the timing, the evidence determinations, and the privileges we will accept. we can accept the rulings of the chief justice or we can reverse them, but it's our job. previous impeachments record the senate making just such rulings. never -- never has the senate referred such a ruling to a court. indeed, in walter nixon v. united states, reported at 506 u.s. 224, a 19923 decision, the supreme court held that federal courts have no power to review procedures used by the senate in trying impeachments, that it was a non-justicable question and that to question the decision, the judiciary and the supreme court in particular were not chosen to have any role in impeachments. th

two thirds of the senators present not pronouncing him guilty the senator judges that the respondent donald trump president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment. the clerk will read the second article of impeachment. article two, obstruction of congress. the constitution provides that the house of representatives shall have the power of impeachment and that the president shall bpresident shalm office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. in its conduct of the office of the president of the united states and in violation of its constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office as president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the t united states, and in violation of the constitutional duty to take care that the law be faithfully executed, donald trump has directed the unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its power of impeachment. president trump has abus

senate. go to the u.s. senate web page. >> and he's going to register democratic voters? as democrats. >> that's what we're doing right now. expanding the base. >> don't leave. stay with me. we have to go back to a little bit more of senator warren. let's listen to that. and then we'll come back to you. don't go. >> okay. >> we've got a lot that we need to get done. it is time for a wealth tax in america. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting "two cents" ] it is time to take on the fight against climate change. we need a green new deal and a blue new deal. it is time to take on gun violence in this country. and it is time to create a pathway to citizenship for all of our people. these are fundamental, fundamental values that all but the question has to be not just what we fight for but what is our plan to get it done? there is no magic wand here. this is going to be about hard work. but it's also going to be about having a strategy. and here's a difference. people ask me about differences between bernie and me. i want to point out one big one. and that is, you want to

senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] >> while i'm standing up here i would be remiss to think about other black women from south carolina that have paved road like september clark, who fought bethune tion and marry cookman. some of the same issues that concerned them back then are presented in front of us now. as i sit back to reflect on the time we have had in south carolina and the things we have done to elect bernie sanders, i stand in front of you asking one last favor of you, i'm asking just one more time to dig down to call your friends, to talk to your neighbors, to meet somebody that you don't even know and tell them about this one opportunity, because in 2016, we had an opportunity, but we fell a little short, and that's ok. but in 2020, we will elect senator bernie sanders! [cheers and applause] >> so again, reach out to your neighbors, look to your left and to your right and ask them are we going to bring south carolina home for senator sanders? [cheers and applause] >> after that, we are

of the senate. even more concerning, at every turn throughout this process, the house democrats violated president trump's right to due process of law. all american law is built on a constitutional foundation securing basic rights and rules of fairness for a citizen accused of wrongdoing. it's undisputed that the house excluded if the president's legal team from both the closed door testimony and almost the entirety of the house's 78-day inquiry. they channeled personal policy and political grievances and attempted to use the most solemn responsibility of congress to bring down a political rival in a partisan process. it's no secret that democrats' crusade to remove the president began more than three years ago on the very day that he was inaugurated. on january 20, 2017, "the washington post" ran a story with the headline the campaign to impeach president trump has begun. at first speaker pelosi wisely resisted. less than a year ago she said, quote, impeachment is so divisive to the country that un

senator will ever face. regardless of my decision in the absence of 57 votes, i am reminded of the words of senator byrd. the house and senate republicans and democrats and the president must come together to heal the open wounds, bind up the damage trusts and by our example again unite our people for the common good. we must not put aside the bitterness that has infected our nation. we must begin by putting behind us the distrust and bitterness caused by this sorry episode and search for common ground instead of shoring up divisions that you wrote decency -- he wrote decency. -- s not the legacy of the erode decency. it is the legacy of this institution that we leave for -- generations to come. i want to thank you and ask the good lord to continue to bless this great country during this trying time. thank you, madam president. president, for more than 200 years after our constitution was adopted, only one president faced an impeachment trial before the united states senate. 1868.as andrew johnson in now, we

. >> host: no, that -- we can talk about -- i remember when i came to the senate as a senator having worked in it before, i thought i knew what i was getting into, but i didn't realize what it was like to work in ae body that operates by unanimous consent. [laughter] i mean, most people don't realize you're the majority leader, but if they'll listen carefully on c-span, you'll stand up at the end of the day and say i ask consent that the senate open tomorrow at i 9:30 and that we have a prayer and we go to this bill. and if one senator objects, you have to start, you have to start over. how would you -- have you had to suggest to someone a book to read about understanding the senate, do one or two come to mind? >> guest: oh, my goodness, it'd probably put people to sleep because the senate is ironically work out pretty much the way george washington predicted. according to legend, he was asked when he presided over the constitutional convention what do you think the senate will be like. he said he thought it'd be like the saucer underneath the teacup, and the tea would slosh out and

the senators, the senate. no one else. we are responsible to the people of the united states to run this trial. we were trusted by the founders to live up to those responsibilities. when we sit as a court of impeachment, it is all on us. the founders put it squarely on us, and we took that job when we took our oaths. that means we control the trial rulings, the timing, the evidence determinations, and the privileges we will accept. we can accept the rulings of the chief justice or we can reverse them, but it's our job. previous impeachments record the senate making just such rulings. never -- never has the senate referred such a ruling to a court. indeed, in walter nixon v. united states, reported at 506 u.s. 224, a 19923 decision, the supreme court held that federal courts have no power to review procedures used by the senate in trying impeachments, that it was a non-justicable question and that to question the decision, the judiciary and the supreme court in particular were not chosen to have any role in impeachments. th

most senators, most senators acknowledge they did see through that. that what we saw in front of our faces is actually what it is. for their part, senate democrats took to the senate floor unleashing a truly scathing assessment of this president in harsh words rarely heard in that body. >> his ongoing betrayal of the oath of office represents a clear and present danger to our constitution, our democracy, and the rule of law. >> truth matters to you. right matters to you. you are decent. he is not. who you are. >> the truth is, republicans, before trump became the head of their party, knew exactly how dangerous he was. and how dangerous he would be if he won. they knew he was the arcitype of the bad man the founders intended to protect democracy from. >> i've never seen a leader in high office take such glee in means in. he considers it some high badge of virtue in the way he demeans and degrades his political adversaries. >> we have allowed a toxic president to infect the senate and warp its behavior. >> this president is such a menace, so contempt wu

the senators who lost the vote in the senate yesterday represent 19 million more people than the senators who won that vote. in a "new york times" editorial entitled "a dishonorable senate," "the times" says the vote also brings the nation face to face with the reality that the senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal and stupid power politics. faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional self-respect to even investigate. the senate may acquit mr. trump, but it will not -- it cannot -- exonerate him. mr. trump is the most corrupt president in modern times, a reality americans will continue to be reminded of by continuing investigations by the house, which should immediately issue a subpoena to mr. bolton by a trio of cases in the supreme court that seek to reveal mr. trump's shady finances and of course by the behavior of the man himself. leading off our discussion from washington, dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." heidi przybyla, next news correspondent. and sahil ka

former senator john warner. senators, there is a storm blowing through this capital. its winds are strong and they move us in uncertain and dangerous directions. jefferson once said, i consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of itsnm constitutio. the only anchor ever imagined but yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to m te principles of its constitution. i would submit to you, remove that anchor and we are adrift. but if we hold true, if we have faith that the ship w can survie the truth, the storm shall pass. i yield back. >> thank you mr. manager. >> mr. chief justice. >> the senate returned from the short break to continue debate on whether additional witnesses should testify. we begin with deputy cancel to the president patrick philbin. >> i'm going to make a brief statement. >> too not allow a witness, no documents in an impeachment trial is a placidity. it is a grand tragedy, one of the worst tragedies that the senate has ever overcome. america will remember this day unfo

two thirds of the senators not having produced in guilty, the senate of judges that respondent donald john trump, president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the second article of impeachment . the presiding officer directs judgment to be entered in accordance with the judgment of the senate as follows. the senate having tried donald john trump president of the united states on 2 articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives and two thirds of the senators present having not found him guilty of the charges contained therein, it is therefore ordered andadjudged that donald john trump be and is hereby acquitted of the charges insaid articles . >> mister chief justice. >> the majority leader is recognized . >> i send an order to the desk . >> the clerk will report. >> order that the secretary be directed to communicate to the secretary of state as provided by rule 23 of the rules of procedure and practice in the senate when sitting on impeachment trials and also to the house of representatives the judgment of the senate in the case of donald

it's not up to the party on how to the senate conducts trial. it's up to the senate. the majority leader should represent the senate not the president of the united states. >> democrats are trying to embarrass the president by delaying acquittal until after the state of the union. is that true? >> not in the least. what we want to have is a fair process. and we were not part of a process that was developed. we're in the happy by how this is being handled nec next week. we would have preferred to have the debate in open session and with the chief justice presiding and debate the production of more documents. we didn't have a chance -- >> why not just made their bed and lay in it. why give the opportunity to have them speak to the american people to guilt or explain to them. why not move on. >> that wasn't our choice. the majority leader set up an opportunity during the regular business of the united states senate. it's not during the impeachment trial. >> what do you think of that? >> well, you know, first of all, i don't object to members trying to explain the vote on

two senators the article finally arrived over here in the senate. over the course of the trial senators have heard sworn video testimony from 13 witnesses over 193 video eclipse. we have entered more m than 28 thousand pages of documents into evidence including including 17 depositions and their members asked 180 questions. in contrast to the house proceedings our trial gave both sides a fair platform. our process tracks with a structure that senators adopt the for the clinton trial 20 years ago. democrats such as the current democratic leader and then senator joe biden argued at length in 1999 we recognize that senate traditions have posed no obligation, no obligation to hear new live witness testimony. it is i not necessary to decide the case. if it is not necessary to decide the case. let me emphasize the house managers themselves said over and over that additional necessary to prove their case. they claimed dozens of times that their case was quote overwhelming and incontrovertible. that was the house managers saying their evidence was overwhelm

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas, senator cotton. mr. cotton: this week the senate has another chance to vote on basic pro-life protections for babies, both born and unborn. this week we have another choice to live up to our nation's highest principle -- that every person has the right to life or to stoop down to a narrow vision of humanity, pedaled by the abortion industry. the first bill we're considering would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy when there is clear, scientific evidence that these young babies can feel pain in their mother's womb. now, the abortion lobby and all of its defenders will dispute this science, claiming that babies or fetuses, which is the euphemism they like -- euphemism they like to use, can't feel pain at all, at least until the very latest stages of pregnancy. now, anyone peddling that myth must have never visited a neonatal intensive care unit. ask any one of these nicu nurses who cares for little preemies, even micropreemies and they'll tell you how you can hold that simultaneously infant, s

senator sanders, warren and senator klobuchar heading to iowa. senator bennet is not. he's heading to the hampshire. let's hear from mary, asheville, north carolina, you are up first. go ahead. >> caller: yes. >> host: you are on the air. go ahead, yes. i'm a total with the last senator -- which his name? adam schiff. >> host: let you go. chuck schumer. >> majority whip. >> mr. president, i would ask consent the quorum call be suspended. >> without objection for our asking unless consent journal via printed it. >> without objection. -- the journal be approved to date. >> host: that was senator thune on the floor and senator schumer is speaking to republicans. >> under the previous order the senate will be in a period of morning business where senators permitted therein to speak up to ten minutes each? >> adjust the absence of a quorum. >> the clerk will call the roll. >> the house did a lot of things wrong. i don't think they did. the house managers rebutted all of that but they can't .2 what's wrong with the articles of impeachment. they can't rebut the arguments for

senators, we have proven that. this president committed what is called the abcs of impeachable behavior, abusing his power, betraying the nation, and corrupting our elections. he deserves to be removed for taking the very actions that the framers feared would undermine our country. the framers designed impeachment for this very case. senators, when i was growing up poor in south texas, picking cotton, i confess i didn't spend any time thinking about the framers. like me, little girls and boys across america aren't asking at home what the framers meant by high crimes and misdemeanors. but someday they will ask why we didn't do anything to stop this president, who put his own interests above what was good for all of us. they will ask. they will want to understand. senators, we inherited a democracy. now we must protect it and pass it on to the next generation. we simply can't give our children a democracy if their president is above the law because in this country, no one is above the law, not me, not any of you, not

as a senator, mr. president, i believe that the first and perhaps most important consideration is whether abuse of power and obstruction of congress are impeachable offenses as asserted by our house managers. impeachment is a necessary and essential component of our constitution. it serves as an important check on civil officers who commit crimes against the united states. however, our founding fathers were wise to ensure that the impeachment and the conviction of a sitting president would not be of partisan intent. since president trump took office, many have sought to de legitimize his presidency with partisan attacks. we've heard this right here in the senate and we've experienced it. this extreme effort to unseat the president i believe is unjustified and intolerable. now that the senate has heard and studied the arguments from both sides, i believe the lack of merit in the house managers' case is evident. the outcome of the impeachment trial is a foregone conclusion. acquittal is a judgment the se

senator corker he hounded them out of the party. thank you everybody. >> [inaudible conversations] i will make a quick statement obviously we are pleased for the winner to the constitution and the american people and the president himself we are very pleased with the results we are glad this is behind us and behind the country now it's time to turn our attention to other things to make how damaging this is not bipartisan quick. >> it was bipartisan opposition to the impeachment articles themselves. there is one republican that voted in the house and three democrats did not support the articles of impeachment s the founders were very smart with the concept of how voting should go what the requirements are in the criteria that the president has been acquitted of all charges we are not concerned about anything at this point. i have no reaction to it the office of the president one and the constitution in one that is significant the process follow through and was completed and it is now behind us. >> i'm not worried about it. if they wi

one senator has said he will vote to acquit president trump, republican senator of tim scott of south carolina. he was singled out by the president last night in his state of the union address. your colleague from utah threw a little bit of a curve ball into today's proceedings the let's play a little bit of what senator romney just said a few minutes ago on the senate floor. >> sounds good. >> as it is with each senator, my vote is an act of conviction. we've come to different conclusions, fellow senators, but i trust we have all followed the dictates of our conscience. >> what's your reaction to his announcement that he will vote to remove president trump on impeachment article i? >> yeah, i'm not surprised, to be honest with you. there's no question that if you look back at the campaign trail, there seems to be an animus between romney and the president for the entire time he's been senator, so it's not a surprising conclusion he's drawing. i think it's unfortunate and i don't think it's consistent with the facts, but it's his to make, so i can't question the intentions, but i cert

senators, how say you? is the respondent, donald john trump, guilty or not guilty of rollcall vote is required. the clerk will call the roll. [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] [rollcall vote] >> this article of impeachment, 48 senators pronounced donald john trump, president of the united states, guilty as charged. 52 senators have pronounced him guilty as charged, two thirds not having pronounced him guilty the senate judges the respondent, donald john trump, president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment. the clerk will read the second article of impeachment. >> article 2, ob

the junior senator from illinois is up, senator duckworth. >> i think my senior senator, senator durbin, this is something i've worked on since i was in thousand representatives and when i was in the house i stood up against president obama's attempt to expand a you enough to allow him additional actions back then even when i got over here to the senate it was one of the first conversations i had about the need to sunset the previous [inaudible] and have a real argument and debate over what the new authorizations should be. i think it's very clear if the constitution does not give the president's power to declare war, only congress has that authority. it is regardless of who is in the white house. congress must do its job it when i was recovering at walter reed there were protesters outside the hospital gates and especially on friday when the fresh [inaudible] they were flown in and write up at the gates and those buses with the war would have to go through those protesters and was proud they were there because they were exercising their right to free speech and they fought -- i fought

it has been inspirational to him. >> both senator mccain and senator kennedy were enormously optimistic. they showed a lot of perseverance. i would like to hear your thoughts on where people can find that sense, that reservoir of optimism and perseverance today? how do you find it? how do others look at their legacy and find there's? >> i think it was a defining aspect of teddy's life. mucherseverance, optimism, of it came from his deep religious faith. wore ont something he his sleeve, but it was profound and kept him very grounded. also kept him persevering. it was absolutely who he was. this being focus on something important, something to do and to keep going. i will tell you a wonderful persevering story that makes me smile to think about. in the spring of 2009, he throughout the first pitch for the red sox. he was sick, but it was exhilarating. this was like the greatest thing. he could not believe how wonderful it was throwing out the first pitch on opening day. he had practiced. i said you are not going to be on the mound, is just going to be a sure thing, it will be terrific. h

i hope that senator murkowski is right. >> senator shelton whitehouse, thank you for joining us for this historic day. >> thank you. >> and we will have much more fallout of the impeachment vote, and will the failure to remove the president from office embolden the president or potentially rein in him? >>> also, breaking news, updated results that we are getting from the iowa caucuses, and we will share the new numbers with you. ( ♪ ) hey there! i'm lonnie from lonnie's lumber. if you need lumber wood, lonnie's is better than good. we got oak, cherry, walnut, and more. and we also have the best selection of plywood (clattering) in the state... hey! (high-pitched laughter) man: dang woodchucks! (wood clattering) stop chuckin' that wood! with geico, the savings keep on going. just like this sequel. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. i am not for ignoring the first sign of a cold. i am for shortening my cold, with zicam! zicam is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam! oral or nasal.

. >> late >> later today the senate will begin debate on senator cain's war powerser resolution. presenting president trump from unilaterally escalating military action against iran. the constitution is clear declare war. the president has no authority to enter thele united states ino another endless conflict in the middle east but i fear the strike against the major general last month may bump us into one. with this bipartisan resolution, the senate can assert its

>> senator from. georgia. >> i am honored and humbled to stand before you today as george's and our country's news united states senator, as the 100 senator i have spent the least time in washington, but as the least senior senator i'm also the most recently attached to the private sector where the vast majority of americans live and work. i'm o intensely aware of the nes and expectations that americans hold for us. just two months ago i left nearly a three decade business career to serve the great people of georgia and our nation. but being here in disrespected historic chamber is a very long way from where i started. i was born and raised as the fourth generation of corn and soybean farmers and a group working in our fields and with our cattle in the feedlot. i sold watches and choose to put myself through school, and then i moved around the country to pursue my dream of a business career. i have been a job seeker and a job creator. i haven't spent my life trying to get to washington. but i worked h

so, they created the senate. out of necessity, jamed madison wrote, of some stable institution in the government. of some stable institution in the government. today we will fullfill this founding purpose. we will reject this incoherent case that comes nowhere near justifying the first presidential removal in history. this partisan impeachment will end today. but i fear the threat to our institutions may not. because this episode is one of a symptom of something much deeper. in the last three years the opposition to this president has come to revolve around a truly dangerous concept. leaders in the opposite party increasingly argue that if our institutions don't produce the outcomes they like, our institutions themselves must be broken. one side has decided that defeat simply means the whole system is broken. that we should literally tear up the rules and write new ones. normally, normally when a party loses an election, it accepts defeat. it reflects and retools. but not this time. for months secretary clinton w

i am a united states senator. i am on the floor of the senate very often. you know, their mantra what they talk about all the time is they believe in small government. they believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people. , if i say to the hypocrites you believe in getting the government off the backs of the american people, understand it is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. [applause] sen. sanders: my promise to you is i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or federal bench who is not 100% pro roe v. wade. we will codify roe v. wade and put it into law. we will significantly expand funding for planned parenthood. as the united states senator, i do understand the power of the corporate elite and the 1%. [chanting bernie] sen. sanders: they have literally unlimited amounts of money. they have significant control over the media, over our economy, and the political life of this country. day the 1% isthe 1%. [applause] don't have a phd in mathematics but i do know that 99% is a heck of a l

has he been a good senator? rep. kennedy: yes he's been a the issue is at this moment given what is at stake with the headlines we've trump'sh president pardons, what he's done to weaponize i.c.e., this is not about filing the right bill and voting right way. to restore power to a democratic party across the country, flip the house, flip senate, flip the presidency andrestore the courts that's the leadership i think i can bring to the seat and what massachusetts deserves. we'll return to most of those things. of yourthe critics senator,, bipartisanship in the senate is dead, the democratic agenda is nowhere.olutely some believe that a fresh face with a different approach is exactly what's needed to change the dynamic. why are they wrong, senator? k 3w4r sen. markey: this is what i fight for, the future for the young people. when i introduced the green new o.k. -- alexandria ocasio-cortez, it transformed way climate change is being debated in the united states and across the planet. a huge difference, based on laws i'

senator sanders, senator warren want to ban it altogether. what do you tell to the thousands and thousands of workers in the fracking industry in pennsylvania and michigan and ohio, are they are job safe in a klobuchar administration? >> this is how i look at this. i know we have to change this. we know what's happening with global warming. we see the rising temperatures. we see the fires in california. for me, that two-minute video of that data driving his daughter outside of paradise with their neighborhood burden behind them where he's singing to her to calm her down, that says it all to me. looking through the binoculars of a friend of mine i met named fran who has a house on the nebraska border with her husband, two 4-year-olds. she says, looks, there's my house. i love this house. when we got it, it's been here nearly 4,000 hundred years. i like the way it comes into the the whole first floor is underwater. i sent them where is the river? the water is raging by and i said to my friend, you bought a house on the river. it was the road, s

you might remember, we saw anothermo m senator, senator jeff flake who spokeut against the president ultimately coluded that he couldn't run again for arizona. he couldn't win again. mittomney doesn't really have that concentrate. he's been the presidential nominee. he been a governor. now, he's a senator. he may not run again. he doesn't have to worry about his electoral future. robert: you wrote about lamar alexander retiring from tennessee. but why did alexander stick with the president? >> you know, i a thinkxander is a guy who is not one to shake things up. now, you could argue that n the hing for him to lose. he's not running again. he's at the - also at the end of his long career. he was an aide to howard bnger. as a y man, howard baker turned against nixon during impeachment of that president or the t impeachment oft inquiry. but at the end of the day, lamar alexander is somebody who is not going to be theuy at the front edge leading the revolution. he was willing to push f witnesses, but he wasnly willing to go so far. robert: so you spent years covering then governor romney

who are up for reelection and in battleground states like senator cory gardner or senator martha mc sally it is a very fraught decision they are likely to lose their elections given where the current trends in their states are and yet they seem more than willing to lose with the republicans with this president's sort of wrongdoing and acknowledging that then they are willing to lose with a clear conscience and that suggests really a problem for the rest of their life in terms of their character being questioned they become very bad spokespeople for any interest that they would care to represent jack kingston the trial was a false design to endorse the president's behavior was it was a fair trial. absolutely not in the house when you think about the due process that was denied the president of the united states alan and alan knows very well that both clinton and nixon had the right to cross-examine their accusers they had the right to subpoena witnesses on both sides of the aisle that was denied in the house in fact most of the investigation was done by the intel committee in the bas