-That Mr Cipollone was among those who were in the loop.
Yet another reason why we ought to hear from witnesses.
Just as we predicted, and it didn't require
any great act of clairvoyance, the facts will come out.
-Let's ask Ambassador Bolton
these questions directly under oath.
"Why did you use the words 'drug deal'"?
We should ask him that.
"Why did you urge your staff to report concerns to lawyers"?
These are all questions that we can get the answers to.
-But if the president did nothing wrong,
if he held up the aid because of so-called
[tapping podium] corruption or burden-sharing reasons,
he should want his chief of staff
to come testify under oath
before this distinguished body and say just that.
-It's not just about hearing from witnesses.
You need documents.
The documents don't lie.
-But it's not that simple, and that's really something that
is a trope that's being used to disguise the real issues,
the real decisions that you'd be making.
No witnesses are gonna say anything
that makes any difference to the second article of impeachment.
-Over a seven-day period, you did hear evidence.
You heard evidence from 13 different witnesses,
192 video clips,
and, as my colleague, the deputy White House counsel said,
over 28,000 pages of documents.
-The question is: Shall it be in order to consider and debate
under the impeachment rules any motion
to subpoena witnesses or documents?
If not, the yeas are 49.
The nays are 51.
The motion is not agreed to.
At the conclusion of the final arguments by the House
and the president,
the court of impeachment shall stand adjourned
until 4:00 pm on Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
-Mr Majority Leader. -I ask unanimous consent
that the Democratic leader or his designee
be allowed to offer up to four amendments of the resolution.
Further, that I be be recognized to make a motion
to table the amendment after it's been reported,
with no intervening action or debate.
-Chief Justice Chase, as presiding officer,
cast tie-breaking votes on both March 31 and April 2, 1868?
-I am, Mr Leader.
The one concerned a motion to adjourn;
the other concerned a motion to close deliberations.
I do not regard those isolated episodes 150 years ago
as sufficient to support a general authority to break ties.
If the members of this body,
elected by the people and accountable to them,
divide equally on a motion,
the normal rule is that the motion fails.
I think it would be inappropriate for me,
an unelected official from a different branch of government,
to assert the power to change that result
so that the motion would succeed.
-I send an amendment to the desk to subpoena Mulvaney,
Bolton, Duffey, Blair, and the White House,
OMB, DOD, and State Department documents.
Mr Chief Justice,
I send an amendment to the desk to subpoena John R Bolton.
I send an amendment to the desk to subpoena John R Bolton;
provided further that there be one day
for a deposition presided over by the chief justice
and one day for live testimony before the Senate,
both of which must occur within five days
of the adoption of the underlying resolution.
Mr Chief Justice, I send an amendment to the desk
to have the chief justice rule on motions
to subpoena witnesses and documents
and to rule on any assertion of privilege
and I ask that it be read.
-The yeas are 53.
The nays are 47.
The motion is agreed to.
The resolution is agreed to.
Mr Majority leader.
-Further, I ask unanimous consent that,
when the Senate resumes the legislative session on Monday,
February 3rd;
Tuesday, February 4th; and Wednesday, February 5th;
the Senate be in a period of morning business,
with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes
each for debate only.
-Without objection, so ordered. -And, finally,
I ask unanimous consent that the trial adjourn
until 11:00 am February 3rd, and that this order
also constitute the adjournment of the Senate.
-Without objection, so ordered. We are adjourned [bangs gavel].
-Ohh!