BACKGROUND PRESS CALL BY SOURCES ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM ON IMPEACHMENT

Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2020 BACKGROUND PRESS CALL BY SOURCES ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM ON IMPEACHMENT Via Teleconference   2:35 P.M. EST MR. GIDLEY:  Thank you so much.  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thanks for taking the time to join this background briefing call on impeachment. The ground rules are as follows: Information on the call is on background and can be attributable to “sources on the President’s legal team.”  “Sources on the President’s legal team.”  And the call is also embargoed -- the content on the call, rather, is embargoed until the conclusion of the call. As a reminder, you -- by participating, you are agreeing to the ground rules.  And with that, I’ll turn the call over to [sources on the President’s legal team]. Gentlemen, go ahead.     SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Thanks, Hogan.  We were pleased to have an opportunity to begin presenting the President’s defense today.  Obviously we had not had any opportunity in the House proceedings to do that. And as we have said in the past, we intend to present a robust defense on both fact and the law.  We think that people got to see a taste of that today.  And we’ll look forward to continuing to present the defense and go through the bulk of it in the coming days. And with that, I’ll open it for questions. Q    Hi.  It’s Andrew Feinberg with Breakfast Media.  Thanks for doing the call.  Today, as you were speaking, you had said that no prior impeachment investigation conducted closed depositions before public hearings.  In fact, during the Nixon impeachment, initial depositions were conducted by staff, and members were not permitted or involved in those depositions. So I’m wondering why it is you (inaudible) make such a false statement, and why it’s necessary to defend the President without seeming to have any need to constantly tell the truth?      SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, I don’t think I said that there were never any closed depositions in any impeachment proceeding.  What I had said was that there was never an impeachment proceeding in a presidential impeachment inquiry that was not started without a vote of the full House to authorize the inquiry. And what I pointed out was that there was not a situation in the Clinton or Nixon impeachment hearings where there were open hearings.  And I’m quite sure that I said this -- where there were open hearings where the President was excluded.  Because it's the open hearings that the President was permitted to have counsel present and to cross-examine people.  So I don’t think that you heard me correctly.  I suppose it’s possible I misspoke, but I don’t think that’s that what I said. Q    Hi, this is Kelly O'Donnell from NBC.  Is it your intention -- and we do thank you for doing the call, by the way.  Is it your intention to argue that it was not the President’s intent to get Ukraine’s help doing this investigation?  Are you going to go at that sort of underlying premise that Democrats have presented, that the President had an intention for his own personal benefit? I know that you talked today -- well, maybe it was [source on the President’s legal team] who did, about this being for the country’s benefit.  But are you going to try to attack that singular premise of Democratic House managers, that the President was trying to extract from Ukraine something for his own political benefit? SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  I am not going to get into, sort of, the strategy of what we’ll be presenting in the coming days.  I think you’ll see that as we present it.  And that’s best left to be developed, you know, in the Senate Chamber as we present the case. SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Next Question. Q    Hi, this is Jeremy Diamond with CNN.  Thanks for doing the call.  A number of Democrats today, after your presentation, said that you actually made the case for why there should be witnesses in the Senate trial by focusing on the lack of eyewitness accounts -- accounts of people who had spoken with the President to connect the investigations to security assistance.  What’s your response to that? And, secondly, do you plan to focus more on former Vice President Joe Biden in your subsequent presentations?  Because obviously we didn’t hear much about him today, despite the President’s obvious focus on him. Thank you very much. SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, the first part of the first question, I think that’s really a desperate interpretation -- a desperate spin to try to put on that.  The fact is that the House Democrats used to say that they had overwhelming evidence, but now that they don’t have overwhelming evidence they’re saying that they need to have more evidence.  So I wouldn’t put too much stock in that.     In terms of the Bidens and that, I’m not going to get into what we’ll be presenting in court.  You know, as I said, I think it’s best left to be developed as the case proceeds in the Senate.      Next question.      Q    Hey, guys.  Good afternoon.  Mark Meredith from Fox News.  Just a quick question for you: In terms of Monday, have you guys gotten any idea of how long you guys plan to present on Monday?  Will it be the full eight hours, nine hours, or are we looking for something shorter like we saw today? Also curious, though: How will you guys be preparing Sunday?  Was the President, kind of, given a brief after today’s proceedings?  We saw you tweeting about it.  I’m just curious, did you guys, kind of, give him a post-session review?  Or any thoughts you can, kind of, give us on what’s happening behind the scenes would be helpful.   Thank you as always for doing the call. SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  In terms of Monday, it certainly won’t be as short as today’s session, but exactly how long it will go, I’m not sure. And in terms of communications with the President, I’m not going to get into that. And prepping, you know, we’ve been working hard a long time and we’ll be working hard tomorrow.  We’ll be working hard until the whole thing is done. Next question. Q    Hi, Zach Cohen from National Journal.  Thanks for doing the call.  Just following up on that, I think Mr. Cipollone said today that you all don’t anticipate using as much floor time as the House managers did.  Does that mean that you all will rest your case Monday afternoon?  Or are we talking about two shorter days, Monday and Tuesday? SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Again, I don’t want to predict anything definite.  I think we are going to be more efficient.  I doubt that there’s any scenario where we approach 24 hours of presentation.  But how that will be split over Monday and Tuesday is sort of hard to predict at this point. And one more question. Q    Hi, this Jeff Mason with Reuters.  Can you walk us through the discrepancy between your side and the House impeachment managers with regard to the President -- you guys alleging that the President was shut out from representation during the hearings?  They preemptively said that that was false. You also said today, I believe, that the reason the White House didn’t take -- didn’t allow or go through with the subpoenas is because the subpoenas were invalid.  Can you just walk us through the discrepancies between the two sides on that? SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Sure.  On the subpoena question, first: There are one of several different legal reasons that apply to different requests for documents or witnesses.  And this will be explained further in our presentation, but I’ll just sort of recap what I was saying today. One problem was that they began this impeachment inquiry in the HPSCI and the other committees that were meeting in the SCIF without any vote from the House to authorize it.  And the essential point is that the Constitution gives the impeachment power to the House as a chamber -- the whole House.  For any committee to exercise part of that authority to a compulsory process, the committee has to be authorized by the House.  That takes a vote of the House.  And it could be in a resolution, it could be in a rule.  It could be something that’s -- but it has to be voted on by the House to actually delegate authority to the committee.  There was no such vote here.  And there was no jurisdiction in the standing rule to use the impeachment power for those committees. So those subpoenas were issued without authority and they were invalid.  And that’s a pretty standard analysis for how you examine and have the committee (inaudible) issue a subpoena.  The courts have said you have to look at the authorizing resolution that gives it its investigatory powers, and that was our point.  And this was explained in letters at the time.  I put up on the screen an October 18th letter that we explained at the time this reasoning.  So that’s on the invalidity of the subpoenas. In terms of locking the President out of the process: You know, as I went through today, there was sort of an illusory offer to allow the President to have some rights in proceedings before the House Judiciary Committee.  But before the deadline had even come for the President to specify how he would like to participate and what rights he would like to exercise, the Judiciary Committee had already decided they weren’t going to have any factual hearings -- hear from any fact witnesses.  And the Speaker had already announced the outcome of the proceedings by directing the committee to start drafting articles of impeachment. So it was clear that the process was already a foregone conclusion, and there wasn’t going to be any real process.  It was just going for show.  And so the President determined that he would not sort of lend an air of legitimacy to that by participating. And I think that that's it. MR. GIDLEY:  Yeah, that concludes the call.  Thanks so much.  I really appreciate it.  Just remember, everyone, the content is now open for reporting.  The embargo has lifted.  And a reminder, "sources working on the President's legal team."  This call is attributable to "sources working on the President's legal team."  Thank you, everybody.                           END                 2:46 P.M. EST                                      The White House · 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW · Washington, DC 20500-0003 · USA · 202-456-1111

BACKGROUND PRESS CALL BY SOURCES ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM ON IMPEACHMENT

Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2020 BACKGROUND PRESS CALL BY SOURCES ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM ON IMPEACHMENT Via Teleconference  January 24, 2020   5:13 P.M. EST MR. GIDLEY:  Thank you so much.  Good evening, everyone.  Thanks for taking the time to join the background call regarding impeachment. The ground rules are as follows: Information on the call is on background and can be attributable to “sources on the President’s legal team.”  Again, that’s “sources on the President’s legal team.” The content is embargoed until the end of the call.  As a reminder, by participating, you do agree to the ground rules I’ve set forward. With that, I’ll turn the call over for a brief introduction from [a source on the President’s legal team].  He’ll make some brief remarks and then open up for questions.  And with that, [source on the President’s legal team], over to you. SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Thanks, Hogan, and thanks everyone for joining. We’ll finally have a chance, tomorrow, now to present the beginning of the President’s case.  As I think you all saw from the beginning of the session today, Leader McConnell said that, to accommodate some of the Senate’s scheduling, they’ve asked for a shorter session tomorrow.  So we’ll start a little bit early, starting at 10:00 and go for a few hours -- probably two to three hours tomorrow.  And then we’ll be presenting the bulk of our case on Monday.  And the remainder of our time then is, as we need it, next week. So we’re looking forward to getting started.  We’ve had to not have our chance to present the President’s case for a long time now, and we’re eager to have that chance, starting tomorrow. And, with that, I’ll take questions. Q    Hi.  Thanks for taking my question.  Can you just lay out a little bit of what we can expect to be your arguments in the first couple hours of what you’re doing tomorrow? SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, I don’t want to get too much into details of substance, but I think, given the structure that’s been set up -- asking us for a short day tomorrow -- you can expect to see, sort of, an overview of, kind of, coming attractions -- a preview of what the bulk of the presentation will then be, rather than getting into too much nitty gritty. But we’ll be presenting a strong rebuttal to what we’ve heard for the past few days, setting that up so that we can get into all the details when we move on to the more detailed presentation on Monday. Next question. Q    Hey.  Olivia Rubin, ABC News.  I’m just wondering if you guys have any reaction to our reporting this morning about a recording of the President talking to Lev Parnas, and if that is going to impact your case or strategy at all? MR. GIDLEY:  Olivia, let me just –- let me jump in here real quick.  Olivia, you can obviously address those questions to us.  I know that Stephanie has a statement out right now.  I’d refer you back to that statement. As far as the case for the President: [Source on the President’s legal team], if you’d like to address that, go right ahead. SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  I don’t think that’s going to have any impact on the case.  I don’t think that’s really going to come into play or be relevant. Next question. Q    Hi.  Good evening, everyone.  Thanks for doing the call.  Can we expect that you and your colleagues will be presenting affirmative defense along the lines of the President’s repeated statements that his call was “perfect” or something similar? SOURCE ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, I think you can certainly expect we’re going to present a robust defense on both the facts and the law on the substance of the President’s conduct, because the President didn’t do anything wrong, and that is clear from the transcript of the call. So there will be a very robust defense establishing, both on the call and -– Q    So is it going to be limited to the –- SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  -- other conduct -- and his other conduct, that he did not do anything wrong. Q    But does that -- so it won’t be limited to the transcript of the call, though? SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  I beg your pardon? Q    Your defense won’t be limited to what he said on the call; it’s all his actions you’re going to be defending? SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, let me put it this way: We’ll be making a defense relevant to all of the charges.  So it won’t be limited in just the transcript of the call, necessarily.  That is the key piece of evidence.  That is the primary thing that they’ve based their case on, but it will be a robust defense of all of the President’s conduct relevant to the way they’ve framed the articles of impeachment. Next question. Q    Hi, thanks for (inaudible) doing the call.  How much are –- do you plan to talk about Joe Biden, and talk about the President, and defend the President talking about Joe Biden on the call, or –- versus having the process and saying that the process is unfair?  I guess I’m wondering: Is a large chunk of your time going to be spent talking about why it was relevant for the President to bring up Joe Biden to the Ukraine meetings? SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, I’m not going to get too much into parsing how much time or into the details of our strategy.  But I think it became quite apparent yesterday from the House manager team that they’ve made it very relevant to the case, because they spent a lot of time bringing the Bidens into this case.  And have established that there is something relevant to be discussed there.  So we'll have to be addressing that, given the way that they’ve opened that up.      One last question.      Q    Thank you so much for doing this.  Can you address whether you will be filing a motion to dismiss?  Could we expect that motion either tomorrow or early in the week?      SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  I'm not going to get into strategy things like that.  You know, we'll be presenting our case under the rules that were adopted and making a strong defense of the President because the President didn’t do anything wrong.  We have a simple, straightforward case to present. But in terms of strategy, exactly what we'll be filing or what the procedural steps will be, I'm not going to get into that.      Q    Considering the evidence that was presented, should the case be dismissed?      SOURCE WORKING ON THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM:  Well, let me put it to you this way: If we were in a court, and -- sort of an ordinary court of law -- and this was a complaint (inaudible) on its face, we certainly would say it needs to be dismissed for insufficiency on its face.  I think we made that point the first night. But, you know, we're in a slightly different procedural situation with the way Senate rules are set up.  It's a complaint that could be dismissed on its face, but we're going to be presenting our substantive defense starting tomorrow.      And I think that's it. MR. GIDLEY:  Thank you, everybody.  Just as a reminder, this call is on background, attributable to a “source working on the President's legal team."  Your embargo has lifted.  Thank you so much.                                END                5:18 P.M. EST   The White House · 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW · Washington, DC 20500-0003 · USA · 202-456-1111

White House Photo's of the Week January 19 -25, 2020

Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2020

Photos of the Week Sunday, January 19, 2020 President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 101st Annual Convention Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX.  (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)   President Donald J. Trump applauds as he takes the stage to deliver remarks at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 101st Annual Convention Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, at the Austin Convention Center, in Austin, TX.  (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)    Vice President Mike Pence tours the National Civil Rights Museum with the museum’s Director Dr. Noelle Trent Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)   Vice President Mike Pence attends a church service in honor of Martin Luther King Day at Holy City Church of God in Christ Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)    Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks during a church service in honor of Martin Luther King Day at Holy City Church of God in Christ Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)    Vice President Mike Pence greets law enforcement officials before boarding Air Force Two at Memphis International Airport Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)   Monday, January 20, 2020 President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visit the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in honor of Martin Luther King Day Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)   President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visit the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in honor of Martin Luther King Day Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)   President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visit the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in honor of Martin Luther King Day Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)   President Donald J. Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, en route to Joint Base Andrews to begin his trip to Davos, Switzerland. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)   Tuesday, January 21, 2020 President Donald J. Trump aboard Marine One flies over the Swiss Alps en route to the InterContinental Davos Landing Zone in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, where he will attend the 50th Annual World Economic Forum.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump aboard Marine One flies over the Swiss Alps en route to the InterContinental Davos Landing Zone Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump aboard Marine One prepares to land at the InterContinental Davos Landing Zone Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump disembarks Marine One Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the InterContinental Davos Landing Zone in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump is met by the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Edward T. McMullen, Jr., and Davos Mayor Tarzisius Caviezel Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the InterContinental Davos Landing Zone in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump greets members of the press at the Davos Congress Centre Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump delivers the opening remarks at the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump delivers the opening remarks at the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump, joined onstage by World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, delivers the opening remarks at the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump and World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab speak with members of the press following opening remarks at the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump and World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab walk to their meeting during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump, joined by White House senior advisors, meets with World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)    President Donald J. Trump, joined by Senior Advisor for Digital Strategy Dan Scavino and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump, meet with World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, following the President’s remarks at the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump prepares for his meeting with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. 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Trump participates in an interview with Joe Kernen of CNBC News during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump participates in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of the Fox Business Network during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. Trump, joined by National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow, participates in a press conference during the 50th Annual World Economic Forum Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland.  (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)   President Donald J. 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Trump arrives to the Nation’s Mayors on Transforming America’s Communities event Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)   President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the Nation’s Mayors on Transforming America’s Communities event Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by  Andrea Hanks)   President Donald J. Trump signs H.R. 2476, the Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019, following his remarks at the Nation’s Mayors on Transforming America’s Communities event Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)