“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to ‘guilty,’” McConnell says.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back strongly against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s request to simultaneously agree to witnesses and the parameters of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, calling it a “strange request” that breaks with recent impeachment precedent.
“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.
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BREAKING: McConnell rejects Schumer’s opening offer on impeachment trial https://t.co/CS0zJdaasg
— POLITICO (@politico) December 17, 2019
Schumer is responding to McConnell…
"Leader McConnell was apparently upset that I sent him the letter on Sunday."
Says he wishes he could show McConnell's Hannity appearance on the Senate floor, said McConnell can't offer a "single argument" rebutting his witness request
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 17, 2019
Mitch McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this pic.twitter.com/baFaTKWvUl
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 13, 2019
GOP: WE HAVEN’T HEARD FROM WITNESSES WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE
SCHUMER: Okay, here’s a list of witnesses with direct knowledge.
GOP: no not them
— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 17, 2019
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