A version of this story first appeared in CNN's Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here(CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stepped onto the Senate floor Friday to kick off the 2020 session and criticized House Democrats for waiting to send impeachment articles to the Senate, accusing them of delaying for partisan reasons. He also pushed back against the idea that they should have any say in how the Senate runs a trial and defended his coordination with the White House. He offered no sign of when a trial might begin, pledging instead to move on to other matters: "For now we're content to continue the ordinary business of the Senate." "Every Senator now faces a choice: to be loyal to the President or the Constitution."

Source: CNN January 04, 2020 13:17 UTC