"Democrats were saying, no, the Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that he was putting unnecessary voting guidelines in a way to sort of make the Democrats look bad."
"Let's get back to the business --"
"My view was that we were entitled to witnesses. I voted for live witnesses myself. I voted for the one live witness the House asked for. And I voted to allow the videotaping of the witnesses that they..."
"I have a motion at the desk to table the amendment."
"If we're going to have witnesses, then we're going to look at this evidence. We're going to look at all the way this evidence was compiled, whether it's hearsay, whether it's inadmissible, and we're g..."
"Mitch McConnell is determined to--"
"Mitch McConnell is trying to make the farce, I mean, trying to make it a joke."
"the idea that the House managers couldn't even present their evidence without a vote from the full Senate, something that's completely new, that was not true in the Clinton trial."
"I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process. It is noting in judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision. The House made a partisan political decision to impeach. I would antici..."
"Everything I do doing this, I'm coordinating with White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this."
"Why are they holding it because if they think that by holding it it's going to make me negotiate and give something away that I don't want to give away or maybe agree to witnesses that I don't want to..."
"I'm not partial about this at all. This is a political exercise."