Senate passes McConnell impeachment rules after nearly 13 hours of heated debate

President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial began in earnest Tuesday. [View in browser]( [Listen Now: Article II Inside Impeachment | A new episode]( [Image]( January 22, 2020 President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial began in earnest Tuesday, with prosecutors from the House of Representatives and lawyers for the White House tangling over how the case should proceed. The proceedings ended around 1 a.m. ET, after nearly 13 hours of debate. The headlines: - Minority Leader Chuck Schumer [offered several amendments]( to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's organizing resolution— essentially a blueprint for how the third presidential impeachment trial in United States history would proceed. The amendments— to subpoena White House records, to subpoena State Department documents, to subpoena documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget, to subpoena White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, to subpoena certain Defense Department documents and records, and to subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton, among others — all failed. With the Democrats' lineup of amendments exhausted, [the Senate passed McConnell's organizing resolution laying out the rules for the rest of the trial](, which includes delaying debate over any witnesses until after both sides have made their arguments. [NBC's Heidi Przybyla]( explains why Sen. Schumer was persistent: "Democrats are forcing these doomed votes for a reason: If they fail to get witnesses later, they will have put the most vulnerable GOP senators on the record opposing testimony from material witnesses." - Two items that had initially caused a stir in McConnell's resolution were [apparently changed shortly before the document was read into the record]( Tuesday. A provision that would have given both the House managers and lawyers for the White House just two days to deliver their allotted 24 hours of opening statements was changed to give them each three days. McConnell also tweaked another provision criticized by Democrats that would have barred all the evidence against Trump gathered during the House Democrats' inquiry from being automatically entered into the Senate record. The changes were written by hand on the resolution, with other lines crossed out. A spokeswoman for Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine, said the changes were made after she and other Republicans complained that the rules strayed too far from the ones used in the Senate trial of President Bill Clinton. - The president's legal team chose not to defend the president with a cogent explanation for his actions. On NBCNews.com, [Jonathan Allen]( called the defense team's performance "shaky": Rather than rebutting hours of evidence presented by House Democratic impeachment managers, White House lawyers opted to repeat Trump's attacks on the process. George Conway, a conservative lawyer and prominent Trump critic, contrasted the preparation of the House impeachment managers and the president's legal team, on Twitter, saying "It’s like the New York Yankees versus the Bad News Bears." "The Trump lawyers have made rhetorical arguments, while I think the House managers have presented compelling cases of substance," said [former Senator Claire McCaskill on MSNBC](. - A debate about subpoena of John Bolton got heated between House manager Jerry Nadler and Trump counsel Pat Cipollone, and prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a warning about civility: "I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are," Roberts said. - Trump himself mostly [steered clear of his usual method of defense]( — social media — while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, though he did call the impeachment trial a "hoax" shortly before plugging his economic achievements in a speech there. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: VIDEOS [Image]( [McCaskill: Trump's lawyer just stood in front of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and lied]( Claire McCaskill, Chuck Rosenberg and Michael Steele discuss several things Trump attorneys Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone said that were, according to McCaskill, were either "flat lies" or "just ignorant." Chuck Rosenberg explains how these moments are why fair trial is necessary. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Image]( [Wiley: Dems 'brought the receipts, threw them on the table, and asked them to be paid']( Legal analyst Maya Wiley says the Democrats' impeachment managers are trying to use the Senate trial's rules process to deliver evidence, but Mitch McConnell is trying to use the rules to advantage the White House's defense. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( MORE VIDEOS Day 1 of impeachment trial ends after 13 hours ([Ali Velshi]() Klobuchar on Republican colleagues: 'To me they look embarrassed' ([Rachel Maddow]() Sen. Harris: Republicans are bogging down trial by handing out lies that must be corrected ([Video)](Jeremy Bash on the GOP's "circular arguments" ([Brian Williams]() Claire McCaskill: House Dems are making a better case than team Trump so far ([Brian Williams]() Biden for Bolton? Will Dems and GOP each get a Trump impeachment witness? ([Brian Williams]() ‘Caught bluffing’: See Trump trial begin as GOP Sen. McConnell backs down on rules ([Ari Melber digital exclusive]() QUOTE OF THE DAY [“History will judge. And so will the electorate.]([”]( —Rep. Jerry Nadler, calling for witnesses to the Senate impeachment trial ([Video]() OTHER NEWS STORIES - [2020 split screen](: : Stuck in D.C. for Trump's trial while rival candidates crisscross Iowa - After unloading on Sanders, [Hillary Clinton walks back not committing to him as nominee]( - [VP Pence attends homophobic sermon streamed on White House YouTube channel]( - [1st case of coronavirus from China confirmed in U.S.]( - [Prince Harry arrives in Canada]( and begins new life away from the royal family - New York Yankees great [Derek Jeter elected to Hall of Fame,]( one vote short of unanimous WHAT TO WATCH The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues Wednesday. House case managers are expected to begin their opening arguments Wednesday afternoon. MSNBC's special coverage begins at 9 a.m. ET, and will continue throughout the day and into the evening. This edition of the newsletter was prepared for you by Sam Go. Were you forwarded this email from a friend? 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