Impeachment trial of President Trump

In his closing remarks, Democratic House manager Adam Schiff said that he believes the United States "will get beyond this ugly chapter of our history" but allowing President Trump to claim that the Constitution says "he can do whatever he wants" will be an "unending injury to our country."

Here's his remarks:

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Rep. Adam Schiff took to the podium and told the chamber that "this is the last presentation of the evening." 

He began: "First point I would like to make is that I'm tired, I don't know about you but I am exhausted. And I can only imagine how you feel."

Ahead of the final few hours of the House managers’ presentation, President Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow offered his assessment of the case: “Really, trying to remove the President from the ballot in 2020… they don’t trust the American people to make a decision.”

Sekulow noted that House managers “kicked the door down” on Burisma and the Bidens, and that they will be responding. “They spent hours on it,” he said.

He suggested his team will bring up Christopher Steele's dossier during their presentation.

“How do you not bring up the Steele dossier? They talked about all the foreign interference as if this is — I’m going to bring a couple of things tomorrow ... I’m gonna tell you something. Look for things. Look for things like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. You want to talk about foreign interference? See what the FISA court had to say about that in the last couple of weeks,” he said.

The Democratic House managers have about four hours left on the clock but only are expected to take about two hours, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

An aide to Rep. Adam Schiff would not confirm that but did say that Schiff will speak when the end is near. 

The aide doesn’t know how long the speech will be, because Schiff is at the table on the Senate floor still writing it out in longhand.

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt also said he expects there to be about two hours more. 

The senators are back from their dinner break. The House managers are continuing their opening arguments.

Fox News just aired a clip of President Trump’s interview, which is set to air in the 10 p.m. hour tonight.

Trump doesn’t deny the ABC recording report, and reiterates that he is “not a fan” of former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Asked specifically if he was telling Lev Parnas to dismiss Yovanovitch, Trump said, “Well I wouldn’t have been saying that. I probably would have said if it was Rudy there or somebody, but I make no bones about it, I won’t have ambassadors — I have every right, I want ambassadors that are chosen by me, I have a right to hire and fire ambassadors.”

More context: Trump was captured on tape at a 2018 dinner with Parnas and another indicted Giuliani associated, Igor Fruman, demanding the firing of Yovanovitch, who was then the US ambassador to Ukraine, according to Bondy.

"Get rid of her!" a voice appearing to belong to Trump says on the recording, according to ABC News, which on Friday first reported its existence.

"Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it."

CNN has not reviewed the tape.

Former federal prosecutor Anne Milgram took questions from viewers today on Anderson Cooper Full Circle.

One of the questions posed was about the Democrats' repeated request for additional witness testimony and documents.

Milgram said that while House managers have described a lot of the evidence they already have in their opening remarks this week, "there are critical witnesses that are really in the Trump inner circle that provide a lot of information that I think the American people probably want to know, that the House managers clearly want to know, that have been withheld."

She went on to break down their argument:

Joseph Bondy, attorney for indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, said he turned over audio of President Trump talking about former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to the House Intelligence Committee, confirming a report in the New York Times.

Bondy said he had Parnas go back through his "cloud" and Parnas found the audio.

What's this about: Trump was captured on tape at a 2018 dinner with Parnas and another indicted Giuliani associated, Igor Fruman, demanding the firing of Yovanovitch, who was then the US ambassador to Ukraine, according to Bondy.

"Get rid of her!" a voice appearing to belong to Trump says on the recording, according to ABC News, which on Friday first reported its existence.

"Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it."

CNN has not reviewed the tape.

The Senate trial is on a 30-minute break for dinner.

House impeachment managers will resume their remarks after the break.