After nearly 12 hours of vicious debate, the Senate voted early Wednesday to adopt the rules that will govern the rest of the impeachment trial. But in a Republican-controlled chamber, why weren’t they the rules that Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, had originally wanted?
Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, congressional editor for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
Background reading:
• Voting along party lines, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ efforts • to subpoena witnesses and documents related to President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. • As the trial began in earnest, Mr. Trump was 4,000 miles away • , touting the United States’ economic growth at the World Economic Forum, an elite gathering of business leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
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