Graham: Trump Is "Demanding His Day In Court"
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) talked about the hold House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put on the impeachment trial in an interview with 'Special Report' host Bret Baier.
BAIER: Let me ask you about the speaker holding back these articles and what that means, in your eyes. And what do you think's next?
GRAHAM: Well, the most obvious explanation is that is it's the dog get caught the car, buyer's remorse. They don't know what to do.
Their assumption was that impeachment would sell with the American people. It's fallen apart. They have no case. And now they don't know what to do next.
And this is a political stunt that's very dangerous.
So, I just met with the president. And he is demanding his day in court. Every American accused of a crime or wrongdoing gets their day in court, apparently except Donald Trump.
And if you believe the Clinton impeachment trial was fair, that's exactly the same type trial that will happen in the Senate with President Trump.
But I just left President Trump. He's mad as hell that they would do this to him, and now deny him his day in court. The reason they're denying his day in -- him his day in court is, they know their case sucks...
Here's what I would say.
If they were called, the president would claim executive privilege. I can't imagine any president in the future or in the past allowing the chief of staff, the national security adviser to be called in an atmosphere -- as a witness in an atmosphere like this.
So he was denied his ability to invoke executive privilege. Instead of letting the courts decide whether or not it was a meritorious claim, they put an artificial time limit on this and charged him with obstruction of Congress.
I don't think there's any appetite in the United States Senate to call a bunch of witnesses that would violate executive privilege, in my view.
Chuck Schumer is not trying to be fair to president. He's trying to put four or five senators in a political box. This has blown up in their face. Nancy Pelosi is refusing to send this over to the Senate because the case has fallen apart.
If you had a strong case, wouldn't you want to present it?
And here's the thing I want to end on. If you were accused of something you didn't do, wouldn't you want to demand your day in court? So the president of the United States told me tonight that he's demanding his day in court.
And what Nancy Pelosi is doing is denying his day in court. In the House proceedings, they died -- they denied him the right to counsel. They denied him the ability to confront his accuser. They denied him the ability to call witnesses on his behalf.
And now they made the accusation, they're denying him his day in court. Other than that, this has been a good proceeding for America.
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