January 3, 2020

Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have made zero headway on designing a bipartisan set of rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial more than two weeks after their first face-to-face meeting on the matter.

The two leaders gave dueling floor speeches on Friday but held no substantive meeting. In a brief conversation on the floor, Schumer told McConnell to focus on his demands.

“I said to him on the floor: ‘Look Mitch, hope you’re thinking about this. We need documents and we need witnesses,’” Schumer said as he left the Capitol for the day on Friday afternoon.

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