Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself and Senators Risch, Graham, Ernst, Fischer, Cruz, and Perdue. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Crapo and the other Senators for counsel for the President: How many witnesses have been presented to the Senate at this point in this trial, how many pages of documentary evidence have been put in the record before the Senate in this trial, and how many other clips and transcripts of evidence have been presented to the Senate in this trial? Mr. Counsel PHILBIN. Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, thank you for that question. I think it is important to recognize that--because the House managers keep talking about the need for witnesses, you can't have a trial without witnesses--you have seen a lot of witnesses. There were 17 witnesses who were deposed and testified--12 in public, 17 who were in closed hearings below. So far you have seen in these presentations 192 video clips from 13 different witnesses. So testimony was shown here to you. Just as you would in a trial in an ordinary court sometimes play the video of a deposition instead of having the witness take the stand, you have seen video clips from 13 different witnesses. The House managers dramatically wheeled into the Senate a record--I think it was reported as being 29,000 pages. I think the more official number is 28,578 pages.…”