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US Senate Leader Not Ruling out Witnesses in Trump Impeachment Trial

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   U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans have not
   ruled out calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President
   Donald Trump.

   "We haven't ruled out witnesses," McConnell told "Fox & Friends." on
   Monday. "We've said, 'Let's handle this case just like we did with
   President Clinton.' Fair is fair."

   Last week, the top Republican lawmaker dismissed calls by Senate
   Minority leader Chuck Schumer to hear from four officials during a
   Senate impeachment trial, including former National Security Adviser
   John Bolton and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The
   officials had refused to testify during the House impeachment inquiry
   of the president.

   On a near straight party line vote, the Democrat-controlled House of
   Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against Trump last
   Wednesday, making him only the third U.S. president to be impeached in
   the country's 243-year history. He is accused of abusing the power of
   the presidency to benefit himself politically and then obstructing
   congressional efforts to investigate his actions.

   The allegations stem from a July call with Ukraine's president in which
   Trump asks for an investigation into one of his chief political rivals.

   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she will not send the articles of
   impeachment to the Senate or choose impeachment prosecutors until the
   Senate agrees on rules governing the process.

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