Impeachment managers say Trump is a danger to national security
The president's legal team argues the articles of impeachment themselves are "constitutionally invalid on their face."
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The president's legal team argues the articles of impeachment themselves are "constitutionally invalid on their face."
The White House defense team and House managers will argue the resolution laying down the rules for the trial, not senators.
"President Trump has done nothing wrong and is confident that this team will defend him, the voters, and our democracy from this baseless, illegitimate impeachment," the White House said.
Democrats released texts exchanged between Parnas and Rudy Giuliani and another set between Parnas and a staffer for Representative Devin Nunes.
The impeachment trial is set to begin in the Senate on Tuesday, overseen by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Alan Dershowitz, a longtime Democrat who often defends the president on television, is also joining the team.
The Senate impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday in Washington.
The president is likely to be in Davos as his impeachment trial is beginning in the Senate.
Roberts' role is to be a symbol of neutrality, "to be accepted by both sides as fair."
"The president kept firing her, and she wouldn't leave," Parnas told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
The president insists he doesn't know indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court and senators swore an oath to administer "impartial justice" in the upcoming trial.
Scattered conversations marked the silence as senators signed an oath to be impartial impeachment jurors
Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Thursday that police have launched a criminal investigation.
Robert Hyde, a Republican running for Congress in Connecticut, sent cryptic messages on WhatsApp to Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani's who was indicated for campaign finance violations.
"We need to see more evidence that would be contained in the allegations," Pelosi said.
"He was aware of all of my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president," Parnas told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
House impeachment managers marched across the Capitol to hand off the Trump impeachment case to the Senate.
The president's personal attorney denied having knowledge of any efforts to keep tabs on Marie Yovanovitch.
The House is expected to vote on the resolution designating impeachment managers later on Wednesday.
During the Senate trial, House members selected as impeachment managers will argue the case for removing President Trump.
Democrats released select material from a "voluminous record of data" gleaned primarily from Lev Parnas' cell phones.
Senior White House officials say they increasingly believe that at least four Republicans, and likely more, will vote to call witnesses.
The trial is expected to last three to five weeks.
Trump says he might have to invoke executive privilege to keep former national security adviser John Bolton from testifying in his Senate impeachment trial.