ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she was disturbed to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be “total coordination” between the White House and the Senate over the upcoming presidential impeachment trial.
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“And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed,” Murkowski told KTUU Tuesday before saying there should be distance between the White House and the Senate in how the trial is conducted.
“To me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense, and so I heard what leader McConnell had said, I happened to think that that has further confused the process.”
In a recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, described his planning with the White House.
“We’ll be working through this process, hopefully in a fairly short period of time in total coordination with the White House counsel’s office and the people who are representing the president as well as the Senate,” McConnell said.
Murkowski was critical of the impeachment process conducted in the House of Representatives, describing it as rushed.
Murkowski says the Senate is now being asked to cure deficiencies in evidence to be presented at the trial, particularly when it comes to whether key witnesses should be brought forward to testify, including White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton.
“How we will deal with witnesses remains to be seen,” Murkowski said before saying the House should have gone to the courts if witnesses refused to appear before Congress.
Murkowski also spoke of her desire for a “full and fair process,” potentially using the impeachment hearings of President Clinton as a template.
Murkowski remained undecided about how she would vote when the trial takes place. “For me to prejudge and say there’s nothing there or on the other hand, he should be impeached yesterday, that’s wrong, in my view, that’s wrong.”
George Soros paid her to say it.
Laugh all you want. You want find 20 Republican to remove. You couldn’t even find one in the congress Too bad.
Very sensible and balanced.
Waiting for the Great Loser Rino Romney to weigh in.
Too many regime loyalist “good Germans” here…next thing you nebuchim will label Senator Murkowski a “radical leftist,” the favorite epithet of your Fuhrer.
She thinks she can get away with anything just because she’s attractive.
I guess you people have no clue how impeachment works.
So let me try to explain the most important part.
The house hears the evidence, and calls all the witnesses they feel they need to make a case.
Once they have a case and vote on it, and they impeach the president, then they send it to the Senate.
Once the Senate gets the case, they see what the house sent, and they have an opportunity to summit written question ONLY. Once that is done, they then take a vote, if they are happy with what the Congress sent them, and they take a vote on that. Meaning if they vote to bring more witnesses, then they have the opportunity to bring more, and if they are fine with what was presented to them, then they take a vote to remove the president or not!!!
Here is the problem.
Whether you believe that Congress held a fair trial is not important.
What’s important is, that once Congress voted, it’s out of their hands, and they have to deliver it to the Senate, and they have no say in the matter after that!!!
End of story!!!
Senator Murkowski is trying to be balanced and honest and feels a need to compromise. She forgets however that you can neither be balanced or truthful with crooks, which Congress with Schiff and Nadler at the helm proved very much to be!
Mitch understands thismto be the case and as such knows realizes that with the crooks you can’t make any comprimises, whatsoever!
Senator Murkowski is trying to be balanced and honest and feels a need to compromise. She forgets however that you can neither be balanced or truthful with crooks, which Congress with Schiff and Nadler at the helm proved very much to be!
Mitch understands this to be the case and as such knows realizes that with the crooks you can’t make any comprimises, whatsoever!
Senator McConnell has said he would violate his oath to be an impartial juror. Surely the Chief Justice ought not to let him sit on the jury for this trial.
Can Senator “Spartacus” Booker (who pretends to be so in love with Jews until it hurts his Left credo), Sen. “Pocohantas” Warren, Sen. Bernie (“I’m a born Jew, so I can call Netanyahu and Israel Racist, but u cant call me an anti-semite”) Sanders, Sen Amy Klobucher, & Sen. Kamala Harris, all of whom have said that President Trump should be removed from Office way before the Impeachment; be Impartial & openminded as is required by the Constitution? That they do not recuse themselves is proof that Majority Leader McConnell is 100% justified in co-ordinating with the White House, and Murkowski a fool or a phony.
So soros is now controlling her, collins and romney gevalt!
All I know that any Jew voting against Trump in my Shul will be thrown out head first. And his kids will be expelled from their yeshivas. And his wife will be banned from all bungalow colonies. Trump 2020
Adam Schiff is part of the majority in Congress so he can dictate the rules and can continue to hide the whistleblower. Schiff never apologized for his brutality.
McConnell is part of the majority in the Senate. He can set the rules and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone for anything. If there is anything to learn from the disgraced impeached Eric Holder, it’s give the opposition minority the finger and keep running roughshod over your helpless opponents. Don’t show any cowardice towards those that are out of power. There is no way they can stop you on their own. The Democrats NEVER bend an iota. It’s only those weak kneed rino Republicans that have to bend over backwards and twist themselves into pretzels to attempt to pacify CNN and those that hate them.
Ms. Murkowski, like Sara Palin, are white trailer trash from a State, only brainless people live in.