This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. What happened todaySenator Mitch McConnell said that he had no intention of negotiating with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the terms of the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump, and he urged Ms. Pelosi to transmit the two articles of impeachment that were approved last month. “The House’s turn is over,” Mr. McConnell, the majority leader, said. “So let’s just go ahead.”The Mitch McConnell we already knewThe transfer of impeachment power to the Senate means that Mr. McConnell is again the power broker of Washington’s central drama. Charlie, I liked this description in your story of Mr. McConnell as a fact of life.

Source: New York Times January 09, 2020 00:22 UTC