that republicans are going to budge. congress is not slated to return until january 6th. here s congressional reporter, lauren fox. reporter: both sides digging in in washington over when and if the senate impeachment trial will start in january. there s still questions looming, as everyone is waiting on nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, to send over the articles of impeachment. the democrats are insisting he gets witnesses. and mitch mcconnell makes hit clear that he gets those articles before he makes the next move. it s an absurd position after you impeach the president, you don t send over the impeachment
house, to send over the articles of impeachment. the democrats are insisting he gets witnesses. and mitch mcconnell makes hit clear that he gets those articles before he makes the next move. it s an absurd position after you impeach the president, you don t send over the impeachment papers. we re at an impasse. we can t do anything until the speaker sends the papers over. so, everybody enjoy the holidays. reporter: there was more fiery back and forth on monday. this is as chuck schumer said they need to be negotiating witnesses now and not wait until the start of the senate impeachment trial. republicans are arguing what they re going to do is something very similar to what they did during the clinton impeachment trial. you have the house managers make their case on the democratic side. then, you have the president s lawyers defending him on the senate floor.
under oath can clear up a lot of stuff. but on the time line and delay on sending over the articles, white house official mark schwartz says pelosi s position is unattenable and here s why. it s a really untenable position we think for speaker pelosi to say this president is such a clear and urgent danger to the world, to the globe that we have to basically trample his constitutional rights to force a quick impeachment and then say, well, we re going to hold up impeachment papers and articles of impeachment to send to the senate. how can you possibly justify the contrast to then say, well, we ll have to wait and see? how do you argue on one hand this is so urgent wrg smsh must be done before the election, we can t wait for the courts to get those witness tuesday come forward, but on the other hand democrats can afford to wait this out? i don t really give that much credence to complaints from the white house about the process when they wouldn t even participate in it, they woul
well, we re going to hold up impeachment papers and articles of impeachment to send to the senate. how can you possibly justify the contrast to say this is urgent to then say, well, we ll have to wait and see. josh, you covered for the washington post. the president wants a speedy trial. does that give him any leverage to force mcconnell to agree to anything or no? they want witnesses, to have hunter biden, to have others, they want adam schiff to testify. that s not going to happen, even if you talk to people close to the president. the president wants some sort of vindication, though. he watched a house trial and he made the decision pretty early on, we re not going to participate in this process because we don t think the outcome will be what we want it to be. the senate trial, he thinks the outcome will be what he wants it to be and he thinks he has more control. he wants to see that happen. mcconnell is telling him behind
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