If hes acquitted theres this real danger hell walk around saying ive been exonerated and hell welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, january 23rd, 6 00 here in new york. House managers will continue making their case against President Trump today. They are trying to convince at least four republicans that the trial should include witnesses and documents. Minority leader Chuck Schumer was sounding optimistic insisting after last nights session that democrats are, quote, making gains every day. Do republicans agree . The presentation from house managers is earning praise even from republicans. We have a picture to show you late last night. Thats lindsey graham, one of the president s fiercest defenders telling adam schiff he had done a good job. Really well spoken, he said. How would senator graham know . He wasnt in his chair for many of the arguments. In fact, many were not at their desk at the times despite the rules that require the Herculean Task of sitting down for a few hours. This isnt working in an assembly line. This is sitting in a chair and enjoying all the milk you can drink. But i guess its not like the future of the republic is at stake. Oh, wait. It is. Remember, this is the socalled upper sauce, the higher chamber. Those cushy sixyear terms which apparently arent long enough for some to spare a few minutes to sit down. Now, this is in the meant to hurt anyones feelings because being a little mean gets you rebuked by the chief justice of the United States. But leaving the chamber for extended periods of time while the president is on trial, no problem. It may be the real risk they run by sitting is they might learn something. As one said last night. I think most if not all senators are hearing the case by the prosecution for the first time. Nine out of ten senators will tell you they have not read a transcript of the proceeding in the house. And the tenth who says he has is lying. So for their benefit, lets talk about the case now. Lets begin our coverage with cnns lauren fox live this morning for us on capitol hill. A big day ahead. Reporter thats right. Good morning, john. What we saw yesterday was the first day of House Democrats making a passionate case. We can and will prove President Trump guilty of this conduct. Reporter house impeachment managers telling Senate Jurors why they believe President Trump should be convicted and removed from office by using his own words against him. There is no question that President Trump intended in pressing the ukraine leader to look into his political rival. They should investigate the bidens. Just as he solicited help in 2016, thencandidate trump also solicited help from russia. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Reporter President Trump escalated his rhetoric saying they should investigate the bidens. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. Reporter for more than eight hours, the impeachment managers detailing a timeline of the ukraine scandal arguing their evidence including documents, transcripts, and clips from house investigation testimonies show a clear pattern of the president abusing his power and obstructing congress. The july 25th call warrants our close scrutiny. It presents significant and shocking evidence of President Trumps corrupt intent. The call lays bare the president s willingness to do whatever it takes to get what he wants. Reporter but democrats still say they need more evidence and witnesses to fully present the scope of trumps alleged scheme. You should demand to see the full record. The American People deserve to see the full truth when it comes to president ial actions. Reporter minority leader Chuck Schumer optimistic the call is gaining traction. If the m ares begin to break, leader mcconnell may come to me and say lets negotiate. He doesnt do that unless he doesnt have the votes. And well try to work something out. Reporter but for President Trumps defense team and his allies, one key witness is at the top of the list. You could never have witnesses here without hunter biden being a central witness. I got to say the need for the senate to hear the testimony of hunter biden and the need for the senate to grant the white house lawyers the ability to take that testimony has become all the more relevant. Reporter schumer quickly shutting the door on allowing a witness swap for someone like jauron bolton. First of all, the republicans have a right to bring in any witness they want. They havent wanted to. That trade is not on the table. Reporter former Vice President joe biden also shutting that idea down. This is a constitutional issue. And were not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater. Theyre trying to turn it into political theater. But i want no part of being any part of that. Reporter and House Democrats will continue to make their case today and tomorrow. Then we can expect that the president s team will make their defense beginning on saturday. Now, that timeline can always shift, but each side has 24 hours to make their case. John and alisyn . Lauren, thank you have been much. Joining us now to talk about everything, we have cnn political analyst john avalon, cnn political commentator joe lockha lockhart. John, i just want to hit this point again. I think its interesting to see the color from the senate floor. So our reporters are watching the senate chamber. And some senators are actively not listening. I mean, theyre up. Theyre out. Theyre in the Senate Cloak Room which has nothing to do with coats. I didnt realize that until recently. Theyre on their devices in the cloak room, which theyre not allowed to be. They dont either theyre bored and have no Attention Span which is possible. Or they dont want to hear the evidence thats being presented. And i just think that thats an important note. Because that wasnt going to be allowed as well remember. And as john points out. For some reason chief Justice Roberts isnt shutting all of that down. Yeah. And its a dereliction of duty. Lets be clear about that. Its not like this is digging ditches. This is sitting and listening to all the evidence. And id be more sympathetic to the argument theyve heard it all before. If there was evidence theyd heard it all before. But senator john kennedy said a lot of them are hearing this for the first time. What have you been doing . Why have you been on television talking about it . And it shows how much polarization makes people stupid. Particularly senators. When i first read yesterday that there were senators not at their desks and in the cloak room, i didnt believe it. Because how could that be true in this chamber where they hold themselves in such high esteem, right . Were the senate. Were the Upper Chamber here. Were the serious place. But not serious enough to listen to actual arguments about the president of the United States. John cornyn who for a period of time was the number two in the senate said, certainly senators are struggling to see why we have to sit here. Sit hearing the same arguments over and over and over again. You know why, senator cornyn . Because its your job. Its your job to do it. And whats more, the complaint that theyre not hearing anything new, well, you know what they voted not to hear the other day . Anything new. Bingo. 1 for 1 today. Listen. Theres i take exception with your example earlier because if a ditch digger stopped digging ditches, hed be fired. On the spot. Like, gone. You know, i completely agree. You know, i dont want to have lost the idea that the democrats put on an impressive first day yesterday. Adam schiff was brilliant in the first two hours. And they took what was a lot of complicated material and broke it down into little stories. And each house manager came and told a story about marie yovanovitch. Or told a story about dr. Hill and colonel vindman. I think it was very effective. Its ironic that these republicans are talking about we have to listen to this over and over again when in the same breath they say donald trump is a brilliant marketer because he repeats things other and over again. Some people do get an aplus for attendance. Heres who our reporters say have been in their seats the whole time. Theyre paying attention. Who knows what theyre thinking. Susan collins, Lisa Murkowski. That makes sense. They have a big decision to make soon. Elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar. Here are some of the things they heard. One of the things that, perhaps you think that adam schiff did effectively was play President Trumps own words so the senators could hear how the president is feeling about all of this. So listen to this moment. A rally in florida, he said the following. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Then i have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. Were fighting all the subpoenas. Id love to have mike pompeo. Id love to have mitch. Id love to have rick perry. And many other people testify. John . Look, the most compelling evidence is always when someone speaks in their own words. And the thing about those clips from donald trump, individual senators smiled and grimaced at certain of the greatest hits. But it bridges the gap of the realization you hear from republicans. Dont Pay Attention to what he says. Pay attention to what he does. I thought that bridged that. What he says and does are particularly connected. In these instances. I thought schiff did an exceptionally good job connecting his case to the Founding Fathers. I got a weakness for those kind of arguments, but he deployed a perfect hamilton quote that if the senator is listening, understand that this unlike an affair with an intern which shouldnt have been lied about is not what the Founding Fathers were worried about when they wrote about impeachment. Jimmy kimmel said schiff mentioned hamilton so many times that he was nominated for five tonys. Schiff also made the case in his mind that the president committed impeachable offenses but also repeatedly through the day included in prime time tied it back to the notion that theres a coverup going on here. And they still need to get more information. And this is one of the cases he made during prime time. I want you to listen to this. This has to do with cables written by thenlead diplomat in ukraine bill taylor to mike pompeo. We know he wrote it. Taylor told us he wrote it. But we dont have it yet. Listen. Taylor sent that cable on august 29th. Would you like me to read that to you right now . I would like to read it to you right now. Except i dont have it. Because the state department wouldnt provide it. But if youd like me to read it to you, we can do something about that. We can assist on getting that from the state department. So there are two trials going on here, right . The trial of the president of the United States and the trial of whether or not to allow witnesses, thats on the senate. Schiff chose to make that point last night in prime time. Ill only say this again. This is not only me praising schiff. Lindsey graham told him he did a goodbye j good job. Theres a trial within a trial here. Theyll take either at this point. So i think he made that point very, very clear. The other thing he did and, you know, it goes to the idea that theyre trying to tell a story so it doesnt feel repetitive and boring. He did something really important last night. Which is he told us why its important right now. You know, jay sekulow went out and said having this impeachment so close to the election threatens our republic. Thats leading with your chin. Having a president pressure a Foreign Government to try to cheat in the next election so close to an election is certainly far more dangerous than having a senate trial that a lot of senators dont even think they need to sit through. So i think hes done, he set the whole thing up early in the day. Late at night he did both of those things saying the document ts are critical. I want to know, you want to know. But then its about cheating. Stand by. 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Thats what this is. Were doing very well. I got to watch enough. I thought our team did a very good job. But honestly, we have all the material. They dont have the material. Exactly. Thats the point. Exactly. Thats the point. You have the material and they dont. Do you really believe, though, Chuck Schumers claim last night that theyre making gains for the republicans . I think theyre making progress. Are they making enough progress . And we just wont know that. I dont think that a serious person and there are a few serious people in the United States senate on the republican side. Not many, but there are some. They cant listen to this and not believe that the president did something wrong. They may not believe the president may be removed for it. I think many of them will say that at some point in the process. Or in their questions. But they cant be unmoved by this. But i dont think were going to know the answer to that question until they have to say, you know, aye or no. People hang on what murkowski or romney nay. Because they are the weather vanes. Murkowski said via her spokesperson in terms of when the chief justice addressed down both sides for not behaving properly in terms of what jerry nadler said, she said, i took it as very offensive. As one who is listening attentively and working hard to get a fair process, i was offended. Can we read anything into that . Well, if shes talking about nadler, i think that was a general conception about the senators. Shes talking about the chief justice, thats a different deal. I think she was talki