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Senate approves impeachment trial rules, rejecting witnesses

by Associated Press
| January 21, 2020 11:05 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening arguments into two days but solidly rejecting Democratic demands for more witnesses to expose Trump’s “trifecta” of offenses.

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