WATCH: Senate kills impeachment amendment to subpoena White House documents
The measure was defeated 53 to 47 along party lines.
WATCH LIVE: Trump impeachment trial — January 22
House Democrats are expected to give their opening arguments Wednesday. Watch live in the video player.
WATCH: McConnell backs off impeachment limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly eased his restrictive proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, backing off the condensed two-day schedule to add a third for opening arguments after protests from senators, including Republicans. The…
WATCH: Democrats denounce McConnell’s impeachment trial rules as a ‘cover-up’
With Trump's presidency on the line, and the nation deeply divided just weeks before the first Democratic primary contests, four senators who are also presidential candidates will be off the campaign trail, seated as jurors.
The resolution would permit Trump's lawyers to move early on to acquit the president and sets up a vote next week on calling witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton.
Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the Republican-led Senate trial of President Donald Trump, who last year became the third president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
Trump addressed the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hours before his historic impeachment trial was to reconvene in the U.S. Senate in Washington.
President Donald Trump’s legal advocates for his Senate impeachment trial will include a pair of well-known attorneys who have vigorously defended Trump on television.
On Monday, President Trump’s legal team released its first official defense in advance of his Senate impeachment trial, which begins Tuesday. The president’s attorneys say Trump didn’t condition military aid to Ukraine on investigations into the Bidens. Meanwhile, the House…
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