Longstanding Senate rules say Roberts, as the presiding officer, may rule on key issues about evidence, including 'questions of relevancy, materiality, and redundancy.' But whatever he concludes can immediately be overturned by a simple majority vote.
to proceed without first calling witnesses — a process that he says would be akin to what happened in Clinton's trial.who have refused to testify — a situation that differs from the Clinton proceedings. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pushing for testimony about Trump's Ukraine dealings from former national security adviser John Bolton, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Mulvaney's senior adviser and a top White House budget office official.
"To the extent the State of the Union has generated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we're there," he said.
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