Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he was not ruling out calling witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial — but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either — as lawmakers remain at an impasse over the form of the trial by the GOP-controlled Senate.
“We haven’t ruled out witnesses,” McConnell said Monday in an interview with “Fox and Friends.” “We’ve said let’s handle this case just like we did with President Clinton. Fair is fair.”That trial featured a 100-0 vote on arrangements that established two weeks of presentations and argument before a partisan tally in which then-minority Republicans called a limited number of witnesses.
Meanwhile, the White House is projecting confidence that it will prevail in a constitutional spat with Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has delayed sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate in hopes of giving Schumer more leverage in talks with McConnell. But the White House believes Pelosi won’t be able to hold out much longer.“She will yield. There’s no way she can hold this position,” Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, said Sunday.
Trump has called the holdup “unfair” and claimed that Democrats were violating the Constitution, as the delay threatened to prolong the pain of impeachment and cast uncertainty on the timing of the vote Trump is set to claim as vindication. “She’ll eventually send the articles because public opinion will crush the Democrats,” said Graham. Asked whether he expected witnesses in the Senate, he replied: : “No, I don’t.”
He criticized both Republican and Democratic senators who have already announced how they will vote in the trial, saying the Constitution requires senators to act as impartial jurors. Republicans hold a 53-vote majority in the Senate.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Moscow Mitch get trump to testify!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Liar
Good. As if Schiff and the democrats actually held an impartial impeachment process.
Naah, that sounds too much like Susan Collins. Not ruling it out means not ruling it in.
This is after he recuses himself as a biased juror, right?
He needs to recuse. His wife is Trump cabinet member. Clear conflict of interest. Are there NO ethics rules anymore?
I believe him and Graham should get out of the way they done started how they feel.
MoscowMitch's witness list: Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Not holding my breath for anything serious from him other than PartyOverCountry
Phew that’s good to hear... but it also sounds suspicious considering who said it.
Why extend him any credibility in this matter? It makes him seem more serious than he is.
CHANGE OF MIND MOSCOW MITCH ?
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