Mazie Hirono

Well what I would like to see is the Senate vote to subpoena Bolton's testimony.

And so, just as the President was trying to basically rig the election, for himself, by leaning on the President of another country to do his political dirty work, using $400 million of taxpayer money for that purpose, he's trying to rig…

And also, you can't invoke Executive privilege or immunity to cover up crimes.

So, I don't know where Marco is coming up with this kind of explanation, except that he's totally supporting the President and the President's desire to cover-up and rig the Senate trial.

I think he's very afraid of what Bolton is going to testify to because Bolton, I don't think, is interested in perjuring himself.

Well one would hope - I would hope that there would be four courageous Senators who want to have a fair trial.

Oh, this is part of the President's ongoing desire to stonewall that - first, the impeachment inquiry in the House, and basically to throw out a blanket immunity position.

It puts the responsibility directly on the president that he shook down the president of another country for his own political ends.

They corroborate what's already been testified to by the witnesses, that the president wanted the aid to be frozen. And then these unredacted emails just verify that.

So we need to do everything we can to bring truth to light. And thank goodness that this redacted evidence is yet another, in my view, evidence of the president's wrongdoing.

And my expectation is that there will be a trial. It may not be -- it probably won't be if Mitch has his way the kind of fair trial that we should be having.

But expressing concerns does not mean that they're actually going to vote with us in insisting that witnesses be called and documents be produced.

The president hopes is that by continuing to lie to the American people as he does from day one of the presidency, that the American public will be fooled.

We have an attorney general whose first instinct always is to protect the president.

The investigation was based on the thinnest of suspicions and an intrusive investigation. That is not what the IG concluded. Once again, Barr misleads and that's using a nice word.

Today I wish to discuss Senate amendment No. 861, offered by our colleague from Utah. The author of the amendment, Senator Romney, and others have made clear that this language does not constitute an authorization of the use of military…

We have an attorney general who is acting like the defense attorney for the president.

You have an attorney general who auditioned for the job by writing a totally unasked for 19-page document that said a sitting president cannot be charged with obstruction of justice.

It was very disheartening yesterday to watch and listen to the attorney general of the United States act like he is a defense attorney for the president.

Being attorney general of the United States is a sacred trust. You have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign.

What I say is we should always remember that there are two things that the president cares most about. One is protecting himself. The second is money.

I'm waiting for the day that the Republicans wake up to the fact that you can't keep confirming the roosters to guard the hen houses.

I thought his answer was bizarre. After all, there were 800,000 federal workers who -- many of whom were standing in food banks.

The person who could end this -- do you think she would go on a trip if Mitch McConnell said I am going to bring the Senate -- the bills that we already passed in the Senate and passed by the House, he will bring these bills to the floor.

Mitch McConnell is basically a person who will -- who's very facile, I should say, in getting what he wants.