Stuff a sock in it, Chuck.
Via Politico:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday pushed back strongly against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s request to simultaneously agree to witnesses and the parameters of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, calling it a “strange request” that breaks with recent impeachment precedent.
McConnell (R-Ky.) accused Schumer of trying to “short-circuit” their plans to negotiate the trial together. The GOP leader said he still hopes to meet with Schumer but scolded him for releasing his letter to the press before their meeting.
“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to ‘guilty,’” McConnell said, in a reply to Schumer’s request that the Senate agree to call several Trump administration officials as witnesses for the impeachment trial in the same resolution that lays out the trial’s rules of the road.