During a meeting before tonight's State of the Union address , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer both made clear censuring President Trump, as some prominent Democrats have suggested, is not on the table.
“We have impeached the President. Our House has spoken,” Pelosi said.
As she started to make the case that Republican senators wouldn’t go for it anyway, Schumer finished the thought.
”Mitch McConnell — we cannot bring it up in the Senate trial. He has the ability to bring it up afterwards. He won’t. But for most of us, and just about all of us, he should be convicted and we don’t want a halfway measure,” Schumer said.
“I think the reason McConnell doesn’t want to bring it on the floor is our Republican colleagues — so many of them — are so afraid of even saying he was wrong that they don’t want to have a vote on it," he added.