Rep. Mark Meadows Mark Randall MeadowsTrump reacts to Ginsburg's death: 'An amazing woman who led an amazing life' Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death United Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE (R-N.C.) on Saturday said President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE strongly denied to him that threatened any Republican senator over their vote on impeachment.

Meadows, one of Trump’s closest allies, said Trump has vehemently denied that any Republican senators were told “vote against the president and your head will be on a pike,” as CBS News reported Friday.

House lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffTop Democrats call for DOJ watchdog to probe Barr over possible 2020 election influence Overnight Defense: Top admiral says 'no condition' where US should conduct nuclear test 'at this time' | Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies MORE (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, referenced the comment Friday in his closing argument, causing an uproar among Republicans.

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“That didn’t happen. That categorically did not happen. I talked to the president this morning and I can promise you it’s not language he has used, it’s not language he did use,” said Meadows.

“The jury on that are the 53 Republican senators that should be offended but they know the president didn’t tell them that,” he said.

A number of Republican senators have criticized Schiff over the remark.

Sen. Roy Blunt Roy Dean BluntCDC tells Congress it urgently needs billion for vaccine distribution On The Money: Trump undercuts GOP, calls for bigger COVID-19 relief package | Communities of color hit hardest financially by COVID-19 | Businesses, states pass on Trump payroll tax deferral Trump undercuts GOP, calls for bigger COVID-19 relief package MORE (R-Mo.), a member of the GOP leadership, said Schiff’s head-on-a-pike comment could be a turning point in the trial.

“I thought it was a foolish thing for him to say,” he said. “There’s a point when you’ve been lectured on the same one-hour set of facts for three days when anything can be a turning point.”

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Blunt said Republican senators are growing annoyed that the House impeachment managers appeared to have milked all 24 hours of their floor time to maximize television exposure, making their case as much to the television cameras as the senators in the chamber.

“By the end of the three days we’d all figured out we were all sitting there so they could talk to whoever was watching television at the time. I think that was a bad strategy on their part,” he said.

Murkowski told reporters Friday morning that she didn’t appreciate Schiff’s comment about heads on pikes.

“I didn’t like it,” she said, but has also said it would not affect her view on whether additional witnesses and documents should be subpoenaed.