About an hr ago, Politico reported that acc to GOP sources the trial could extend into next week bc of WH scheduling concerns over the Iowa caucuses & SOTU-this contradicts WH optics re Trump's desire to have it over by then. Huh.. #RIPGOP politico.com/news/2020/01/3…
2-"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to make an announcement on the floor Friday afternoon. “I think there’s probably interest on both sides to bring this to a reasonable conclusion,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.) said. “The question is how do we land this
3-"airplane in a way that is fair to everybody concerned and I think we’ll hear more about that from the leader at some point.” A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested it will take the Senate leader time to set up the witness vote and
4-"the final vote on acquittal. “And then once we've finished the time to set up the final vote on acquittals, then it will take time to actually go through all the debate,” the official said. The organizing resolution controlling the impeachment trial only covers up to the
5-"period when the Senate debates the issue of whether to depose additional witnesses, which the House managers and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have been strongly pushing for during the last two weeks.
6-"McConnell and the White House adamantly opposed that motion, arguing it was unnecessary and could drag the trial on for weeks or months." ~politico
