During a surprisingly tough interview on Fox News this evening about the impeachment trial, Kellyanne Conway was confronted about the Trump administration’s refusal to produce any documents to support its withholding of aid to Ukraine.

Today, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial begins in the Senate with what is sure to be a heated debate over the rules. We will post open threads every day there are proceedings for readers to share their thoughts and observations.

The Outrageous Fox Quote of the Week poll is back! Check out this week’s nominees after the jump.

During an interview on his new show today, anchor Bill Hemmer apparently thought he’d pass off a bit of pro-Republican impeachment spin as non-partisan. Unfortunately for him, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was having none of it.

Media Matters’ exhaustive study of Donald Trump’s 2019 Fox tweets show not just how intertwined Trump is with his favorite networks but also how much time he must spend shirking the real work of a president.

Trumper Bill Hemmer promoted his “straight news” program by spinning the Trump impeachment as “nothing to see here.”

Now that Disney has purchased 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight movie studios from the Murdoch media empire, it has removed the “Fox” name from each. It also terminated a film-production deal with a Murdoch lieutenant.

After weeks of equivocating, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) declared that why, yes, he does recall speaking with Lev Parnas, an indicted Giuliani associate involved in the Ukraine scandal, but it was just a “random” call about “random things.” Unfortunately for Nunes, two days later, documents were released showing extensive interactions between his aide and Parnas.

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) proved her disdain and disgust for America when she smeared CNN reporter Manu Raju as a “liberal hack” for asking a polite impeachment question, fundraised off her smear then politely dodged the same question from Fox’s Laura Ingraham.

The White House/Fox News revolving door turns again with the announcement that Fox contributor Ken Starr and regular Trump shill Alan Dershowitz will be joining the impeachment legal team. UPDATED