Sen. Murkowski says she was 'disturbed' that Senate Majority Leader McConnell would engage in 'total coordination' with the White House regarding the upcoming Senate trial of President Trump.
the House Democrats' fast-moving impeachment inquiry back in October.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has yet to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate. And McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are stuck at an impasse over the moving forward with the rules governing a Senate trial. But when the Senate trial of Trump does eventually kick off, McConnell would need a simple majority of senators to pass matters of process and procedure for the trial .to the precedent set in 1999, during the Senate trial of then-President Bill Clinton, following his own impeachment. Back then, there was a two-resolution process: An initial agreement to first hear the prosecution and then the defense arguments, and a vote, later on, on whether to have witnesses or not.
Murkowski indicated she’d prefer to see a “full and fair process” that possibly uses the Clinton precedent as a model."For me to prejudge and say there's nothing there or, on the other hand, he should be impeached yesterday, that's wrong, in my view, that’s wrong," Murkowski said.
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