Worth repeating.
The Senate impeachment trials of both Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton featured new testimony that the House had not relied upon when it passed their Articles of Impeachment.
You can argue things should be different now, but that's actually how it worked before.
The Senate impeachment trials of both Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton featured new testimony that the House had not relied upon when it passed their Articles of Impeachment.
You can argue things should be different now, but that's actually how it worked before.
In the Senate impeachment trial for Andrew Johnson, subpoenas were issued for two dozen witnesses and the trial featured new testimony from them (most notably, General William Tecumseh Sherman). 
In the Senate impeachment trial for Bill Clinton, video depositions were taken from three key witnesses -- Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal -- and shown in the Senate during the trial.
Now, @marcorubio can certainly argue that in *this* Senate impeachment trial, things ought to be different than they were in the two previous Senate impeachment trials of presidents.
But to do so, he needs to explain why he thinks the rules should be different for Donald Trump.
But to do so, he needs to explain why he thinks the rules should be different for Donald Trump.
@marcorubio As a P.S., here's CSPAN video of the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, in which the videotaped depositions from Lewinsky, Jordan and Blumenthal were aired in the Senate.
Watch it yourself.
c-span.org/video/?119956-…
Watch it yourself.
c-span.org/video/?119956-…
@marcorubio As you can see quite clearly in that CSPAN video, the depositions of Lewinsky, Jordan and Blumenthal were taken over the first three days of February 1999 -- more than a month after the House voted to impeach Clinton *without* that testimony.
@marcorubio Here's another CSPAN clip in which Lindsey Graham makes an extended case for having witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.
