Cotton: Democrats are ‘upset that their witnesses haven’t said what they want them to say’ | TheHill – The Hill

Posted: January 27, 2020 at 12:52 am

Sen. Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonSunday shows preview: Lawmakers prepare for week two of impeachment trial Schiff closes Dems' impeachment arguments with emotional appeal to remove Trump Commerce Department withdraws Huawei rule after Pentagon pushback: reports MORE (R-Ark.) on Sunday dismissed the idea ofcalling witnesses in the Senates impeachment trial of President TrumpDonald John TrumpKaine: Obama called Trump a 'fascist' during 2016 campaign Kaine: GOP senators should 'at least' treat Trump trial with seriousness of traffic court Louise Linton, wife of Mnuchin, deletes Instagram post in support of Greta Thunberg MORE, although he said he did not know whether any of his Republican colleagues would vote to hear additional testimony.

Im not going to vote to approve witnesses because the House Democrats have had lots of witnesses we listened to [House Intelligence Committee Chair] Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffSunday shows preview: Lawmakers prepare for week two of impeachment trial Trump defense team signals focus on Schiff Schiff pushes back: Defense team knows Trump is guilty MORE drone on for three days and the president's lawyers, in just two hours demolished the case they had made, Cotton said on CBS Face the Nation.

Theyre not upset that they havent had witnesses, theyre upset that their witnesses havent said what they want them to say, he added.

Cotton sparred with CBS Margaret Brennan on Trumps attorney Jay SekulowJay Alan SekulowGeorge Conway: Witness missing from impeachment trial is Trump Trump legal team offers brisk opening defense of president Trump legal team launches impeachment defense MOREs invocation of the conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

Thats not a conspiracy theory, Cotton responded, citing individual Ukrainian officials who had expressed support for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonKaine: Obama called Trump a 'fascist' during 2016 campaign Clinton says Zuckerberg has 'authoritarian' views on misinformation Des Moines Register endorses Elizabeth Warren as Democratic presidential nominee MORE and criticism of then-candidate Trump.

Cotton conceded that Ukraine had not engaged in systematic, top-down interference sanctioned at the highest levels like Russia, prompting Brennan to respond youre being precise in your words and thats not what the presidents lawyers said.

Brennan also pressed Cotton on a recording of Trump instructing Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiDemocrats see Mulvaney as smoking gun witness at Trump trial Pompeo lashes out at 'shameful' NPR reporter Trump legal team launches impeachment defense MORE associate Lev Parnas to take out then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie YovanovitchMarie YovanovitchWashington Post: Pompeo 'gaslighting' NPR reporter Pompeo lashes out at 'shameful' NPR reporter Parnas says he has turned over tape of Trump calling for diplomat's firing MORE. Cotton noted that Yovanovitch had been recalled over a year after the recording, indicating that Trump was not hasty, he was not precipitous but did not answer Brennans questions about Trumps claims not to have known Parnas before the recording was revealed.

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