Biden made the remarks during a brief one-on-one interview with CNN in the West Wing Hall. He acknowledged the impact on his legislative agenda and cabinet nominees but said “if it doesn’t happen it will have a bad effect.”
Biden told CNN that he believes the outcome will be different if Trump has six months left in his term, but said he doesn’t think 17 Republican senators will vote to convict Trump.
Biden said, “The Senate has changed since I was there, but not much.
Administrators of the House impeachment formally began hearing Trump’s second impeachment hearing Monday evening, as they walked around the Capitol and began reading the charges against Trump on the Senate structure, the second impeachment president in history.
As Trump formalities begin to shape the profile of Trump’s Senate trial, the Senate’s longest-serving Democrat hearing is expected to take place, and Democrats are still considering finding witnesses during the proceedings that could take place in February.
Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside as he did for Trump’s first impeachment trial, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Instead, Senate Patrick Lee, the Senate’s tempo chairman, is expected to run for president, sources said. The constitution says the chief justice presides while the person facing the hearing is the current president of the United States, but senators preside in other cases, a source said.
As the fourth Senate impeachment hearing of the president in U.S. history continues, there are still two big questions in the Democrats’ impeachment case: whether they will find witnesses and how long the hearing will take. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the answers to both are not yet known.
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