Tom Udall: “Thank you for the recognition, Mr. Chief Justice. I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator Udall's…”

“Thank you for the recognition, Mr. Chief Justice. I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator Udall's question is for the House managers: Please address the President's counsel's argument that House managers seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and that the decision to remove the President should be left to the voters in November. Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Thank you for the question. First, I just want to respond to something counsel just said--that 9 months is pretty fast for litigation in the courts. Sadly, I agree with that. Nine months is pretty fast in the McGahn case, and we still don't have a decision yet. What is more, that is the very case in which they are arguing, as I quoted earlier, that Congress has no right to come to the courts to force a witness to testify. So here we are 9 months later in that litigation that they said we are compelled under the Constitution to bring, and they are saying in court: You can't bring this. And it is 9 months, and we still don't have a decision. I think that tells you just where they are coming from. It all goes back to the President's directive to fight all subpoenas, and they are. Nixon was going to be impeached for far less obstruction than anything that Donald Trump did. The argument: Well, if you impeach a President, you are overturning the results of the last election and you are tearing up the ballots in the next election.…”