As Democrats continue to demand documents, Mitch McConnell calls their position “absurd.”
asking a judge to compel the testimony of former White House counsel Donald McGahn because the Judiciary Committee is “continuing to conduct its inquiry into whether the President committed other impeachable offenses.”The day began with Trump again lashing out at Pelosi and predicting that Democrats could lose control of Congress, as they did during her previous tenure as House speaker.
Pelosi lost the speakership in January 2011, after Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 elections. She remained leader of the Democratic caucus, however.The final outcome of the Senate trial is not in doubt — it would take a two-thirds majority, or at least 67 votes, to convict Trump and remove him from office. A Washington Post analysis shows that 37 Republicans, so far, have announced that they would support Trump and vote to acquit, more than enough to guarantee that outcome.
He said the documents the Senate should seek fall into three categories: “ the effort to induce and pressure Ukraine to announce certain political investigations; the withholding of a White House meeting desperately sought by the newly elected President of Ukraine; and the order to hold, and later release, $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine.
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