Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will take up the looming impeachment trial "because we have no choice."
“We will take it up, because we have no choice,” McConnell said. “And how long we’re on it will be determined by the majority of the Senate.”
He also repeated again that he “can’t imagine a scenario under which 67 members of the Senate would remove a president from office in the middle of a presidential election.”
Talking about the rules of a Senate trial, McConnell said, “One thing that would be good therapy for senators, they’re actually not allowed to speak, they’ll actually have to sit there and listen.”
As for how long the trial would last, McConnell said “there’s really no way to know, there’s no set time. We'll just have to turn to it when we get it and work out the way forward.”
Asked if President Trump acted appropriately with his handling of Ukraine, McConnell dodged the question and said, “Like I said we’ll deal with the matter when it comes from the House as we're supposed to.“