House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff told TheView he hopes moderate GOP senators will push Mitch McConnell to allow witnesses to testify in Pres. Trump's upcoming impeachment trial.
," Schiff told"The View" hosts, referring for the president's former national security adviser and acting White House chief of staff, respectively.ABC News
"If McConnell succeeds in dismissing this case without witnesses it will be the first impeachment case not just involving a president but involving anyone in the nation's history in which a trial went forward without witnesses." "There's been no factual basis for these allegations against Joe Biden, no factual basis. That is a Russian propaganda talking point. To ask the Senate to do these investigations that the president fraudulently sought to get Ukraine to conduct would merely turn the Senate trial on its head. Now, that's something that the president would love but that's not a fair trial. That's a sham trial.
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