Former Vice President and 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden appeared in an interview on Wednesday where he said that he felt embarrassed for the Senate as an institution after he listened to Donald Trump’s legal team on the first day of his impeachment hearing in the upper chamber, The Hill reported.
“I have a great respect and reverence for the Senate for real,” Biden told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. “I was there a long time and I never saw anything quite like that.”
Trump’s White House lawyers clashed with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) late on Tuesday night after Nadler said that the President and Republicans were “afraid” to let former National Security Adviser John Bolton testify because “they know he knows so much.”
White House legal counsel Pat Cipollone hit back at Nadler shortly after, accusing him of making false allegations.
“You don’t deserve and we don’t deserve what just happened,” Cipollone said addressing the senators. “The only one who should be embarrassed, Mr. Nadler, is you.”
The back-and-forth led Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, to reprimand both sides.
Roberts said they were “addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body” and that they should watch what they say.
“I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are,” Roberts said.
The White House defense team and House impeachment managers were in the midst of debating a Democratic amendment to the rules resolution on Tuesday that sought to have Bolton testify.
The measure was eventually rejected in a party-line vote.
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