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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, witnesses and documents are still vital in having a fair impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. And he says there are no bipartisan deals in the making for witnesses, document or any new evidence.
Sen. Schumer told reporters Thursday, "No Republicans are talking to us about deals."
Sen. Schumer and the Democrats say new evidence that several GOP senators said Wednesday they'd like to see is available but is being withheld by the other side.
Several GOP have said they'd seen no evidence to support the allegations against Trump even though, just 24 hours earlier, they had rejected subpoenas for additional witnesses as well as documents. Democrats, meanwhile, described the evidence against the president as overwhelming but said senators had a duty to gather more.
The challenge is becoming increasingly clear for House Democrats prosecuting President Trump's impeachment case as the Senate convenes for a second day of arguments in the landmark trial.
The evidence confronting Trump becomes less compelling when presented again and again, day after day, as Democrats try to convince not just fidgety senators but an American public deeply divided over the Republican president in an election year.
As the Senate gavels in Thursday, the Democrats are one-third of the way through the 24 hours allotted to make their case.
The team led by Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of House Intelligence Committee, constructed what they hoped was a gripping account of Trump's political pressure on Ukraine and attempt to cover up the "corrupt scheme" central to the charges. But the limits are apparent.
Prosecutors must rely on the same loops of videotaped testimony — ambassadors, national security officials and even the president himself — after Trump's GOP Senate allies blocked new witnesses.
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