“We are concerned that the senators will not be able to live up to the oath that they will take to have an impartial trial.”
1 / 2 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held her weekly news conference Thursday amid the standoff over sending the impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate.Pelosi said she’ll probably send the impeachment articles to the Senate “soon.”
“At some point we would hope that we would see from them what the terms of engagement will be,“ Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference Thursday. “We are ready.” Earlier Thursday, Smith said on CNN that it was time to send the articles to the Senate and let Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “be responsible for the fairness of the trial.”
Smith, from Washington state, said that while it was legitimate for Pelosi to retain the articles to try to gain leverage with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ahead of a Senate trail, “at this point it doesn’t look like that is going to happen.” Pelosi said she is holding back the articles of impeachment adopted by the House last month until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sets out his rules for the trial. But Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut suggested the House has little leverage in the matter.
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