House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff kicked off the third day of impeachment hearings on Thursday, trying to create a moment of levity by floating the possibility of lawmakers being put in prison.
The Senate’s impeachment trial’s opening arguments drew 2.8 million fewer television viewers since the House began their own hearings in November, Nielsen ratings data show.
The Senate will start the third day of the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump Wednesday, beginning at 1:00 P.M. Eastern.
The Democrats in recent days have quickly latched on to the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s claims about President Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine, making the disputed charge a centerpiece of their impeachment campaign.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff indicated during his opening remarks at the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday that lawmakers must remove President Donald Trump from office to avoid his reelection in November, claiming that “we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.”
MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday praised Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for his “virtuoso performance” during the opening arguments for President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial the day before.
Schiff may have outed himself during his opening arguments in the Senate trial of the president on Wednesday, as he cited an opinion article written by the Washington Post.
Hollywood figures freaked out Wednesday after Senate Democrats’ amendments to bring forth witnesses at the outset of the Senate impeachment trial failed in a series of votes on Tuesday night.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Wednesday during MSNBC’s coverage of the Senate impeachment trial that House manager Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) closing arguments were “a tour de force.” Schumer said, “I thought the managers just did just
Schiff may have mischaracterized a text message exchange between Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani, according to a report in Politico.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used an opinion article by the editorial board of the Washington Post in an attempt to prove the facts of his case against President Donald Trump in opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday evening.
CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart on Wednesday made up a conversation between Republican senators on day two of the Senate impeachment trial, updating his claim roughly ten minutes later and admitting that he made the entire exchange up.
Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh urged Senate Republicans to call on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) as the upper chamber’s first witness, calling the House Democrats’ lead impeachment manager “human slime.”
Republican and Democrat lawmakers from the House and Senate disagree profoundly on whether or not to allow new witnesses to testify in the ongoing impeachment trial in the upper chamber to remove or acquit President Donald Trump.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used part of his opening argument at President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial Wednesday to trash Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz — for the second day in a row.
Schiff repeated the word “Russia,” “Russian,” or “Russians” over 30 times during his two-hour plus opening speech, according to a rough transcript of the hearing.
CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Wednesday during his network’s coverage of the Senate impeachment trial referred to House manager Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) opening argument as “dazzling.”
Adam Schiff continues to ignore evidence presented by witnesses that he himself called to testify at the House Intelligence Committee.
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump withheld a White House meeting, and military aid, from Ukraine until it agreed to announce investigations. VERDICT: False. There is no direct evidence of that in the entire House record.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) led his opening argument in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday by citing allegations of “Russia collusion” that have been debunked.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) knocked down the idea of an impeachment trial witness “trade” of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s testimony for the testimony of former National Security Advisor John Bolton. Schiff
Von Spakovsky: “Virtually the only difference between the Clinton resolution and the McConnell resolution was one change that was actually necessitated by the Democrats.”
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked House impeachment managers and White House counsel early Wednesday morning after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler accused the president’s lawyers of lying.
Cipollone to Nadler: “Mr. Nadler, you owe an apology to the President of the United States and his family. You owe an apology to the Senate. But most of all, you owe an apology to the American people.”
Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), one of the congressional members of President Donald Trump’s legal team, criticized the House Democrat impeachment effort led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Fact check – CLAIM: The House impeachment inquiry was fair, inclusive, and obeyed precedent from previous impeachments. VERDICT: False.
Adam Schiff told the Senate that Trump asked Zelensky, “I have a favor to ask.” Trump actually said: “I would like you to do us a favor.”
America First Policies announced Tuesday that it would target three states with a $1 million anti-impeachment advertisement, which is set to begin in Alabama on Wednesday.
House impeachment manager Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) used controversial phone records that were likely obtained unlawfully by the House Intelligence Committee to argue the Senate should subpoena State Department documents.
Fact check – CLAIM: Trump never raised the issue of corruption in Ukraine in 2017 or 2018. VERDICT: False. We know he did, from Schiff’s own inquiry.
Bernie Sanders is displeased with the Senate impeachment trial schedule, urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “hold the trial at a time when the American people can observe it and not at two o’clock in the morning.”
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) said on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s coverage of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that the president’s lawyers are intentionally throwing out “lies” to make the House managers spend time addressing them because the trial is “on a clock.”
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump believes that he has absolute power under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and must therefore be impeached. VERDICT: False. Trump was talking specifically about the power to fire Robert Mueller.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to the Senate: “They’re not here to steal one election; they’re here to steal two elections.”
Schiff said the evidence is already “overwhelming” but that Democrats should be allowed to introduce more evidence aganst Trump.
House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to dismiss Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz as not a “reputable constitutional law expert.”
WASHINGTON, DC — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued on Tuesday that a refusal by the Senate to agree to Democrats’ demand to allow new witnesses and evidence in the impeachment trial without a vote would deem President Donald Trump guilty regardless of the verdict.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) during a press conference Tuesday said the Senate would be proven “guilty” if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) does not allow their “witnesses or documents” in the impeachment trial.
Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers leading President Donald Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, attacked the arguments Tuesday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) against executive privilege — by quoting his own words at him.
Senate Democrats and the House impeachment managers complained Tuesday about the procedures proposed by the Senate Republican majority for the trial of President Donald Trump — after running an absurdly unfair House process.
