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The Washington Post reports:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer was making “a strange request” for impeachment trial proceedings expected in January. “We certainly do not need jurors to start brainstorming witness lists for the prosecution,” McConnell said.
The back-and-forth came as the House prepares to vote to impeach President Trump along party lines on Wednesday. The House is expected to move one step closer to impeaching President Trump on Tuesday, as the Rules Committee meets to set the parameters for the historic debate on Wednesday.
Politico reports:
“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to ‘guilty,’” McConnell said, a reply to Schumer’s request that the Senate agree to call several Trump administration officials as witnesses for the trial in the same resolution that lays out the impeachment trial’s rules of the road.
McConnell said he still hopes to meet with Schumer but scolded him for releasing his letter to the press before their meeting. Schumer’s letter came after McConnell has repeatedly vowed that the Senate will clear Trump of wrongdoing.
Just in: Mitch McConnell rejects Democrat Chuck Schumer‘s proposal for impeachment trial, calls it “fishing expedition“
— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) December 17, 2019
McConnell rejects Schumer call for four witnesses, criticizing Schumer for releasing letter and “short circuiting” talks. “It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to “get to ‘guilty.’ That would hardly be impartial justice.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 17, 2019
Senate Mitch McConnell dismisses Sen. Chuck Schumer’s proposal to call live witnesses: “Those who have been eagerly hoping for impeachment are starting to scramble.” https://t.co/xa5CKnlxHI pic.twitter.com/7OUlLD5R82
— ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2019