Speaker Pelosi says she has no regrets about holding onto the articles of impeachment against President Trump for weeks and suggests he could face additional articles of impeachment going forward.
, Pelosi said she will consult with them Tuesday to determine the next steps in Trump's impeachment. Asked Friday if she would submit the articles to the Senate this week, Pelosi told reporters,"We'll see."
Her letter suggested the House could name impeachment managers, who will act as prosecutors in the Senate trial, and transmit the articles as soon as this week. The letter came as Trump said he would block former national security adviser John Bolton from testifying in the trial. Bolton, a key witness to the president's actions toward Ukraine that led to his impeachment, said he would testify before the Senate if subpoenaed.
"What we did want, though, and we think we accomplished in the past few weeks, is that we wanted the public to see the need for witnesses, witnesses with firsthand knowledge of what happened, documentation which the president has prevented from coming to the Congress as we review this," Pelosi said before criticizing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"One of the things that I think is really important, what I think people should be very aware of, very unusually, the leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, has signed on to a resolution to dismiss the case, to dismiss the case," she said, adding,"Dismissing is a cover-up. If they want to go that route, again, the senators who are thinking now about voting for witnesses or not, they will have to be accountable for not having a fair trial.
Pelosi has held onto the articles for weeks, saying she would not submit them to the Senate until McConnell outlines specifics about the trial process. McConnell, who in December said he was working in"total coordination" with the White House on impeachment, has called for a two-step impeachment trial process matching the procedure from then-President Bill Clinton's trial in 1999.
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