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Trump impeachment: Lawmakers spar over Senate trial rules

Congress is taking its fight into the holidays. A lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee says Democrats are open to impeaching President Trump again if new evidence of obstruction emerges. The comment was part of a petition to interview former White House counsel Don McGahn. And in a letter to colleagues, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer wrote that leaving new evidence out of a Senate trial “would be to turn a willfully blind eye to the facts.” That brought pushback from his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Chip Reid reports.

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