This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, December 18th. I'm Rachel Dahl Judas.

And I'm Kate Trinko. On Tuesday, Rachel and our fellow podcast host, Rob Bluey,

participated in a media row at the U.S. Treasury Department. There they spoke to

Monica Crowley, the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Treasury about the 2017 tax cuts and how they've affected the economy during the past two years.

Robin Rachel also got an exclusive interview with Jessica Ditto,

Deputy Communications Director at the White House, where they discuss trade deals,

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Now on to our top news.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke Tuesday from the Senate floor

in response to a letter from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer asking him to have

Trump administration officials including former National Security Advisor

John Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff McMulvaney, testify in the Senate impeachment

trial.

McConnell said, it is not the Senate's job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty.

He also said,

Maybe the House's public proceedings have left the Democratic leader with the same impression

they've left many of us.

That from everything we can tell House Democrats slap-dash

impeachment inquiry has failed to come anywhere near anywhere near the bar for impeaching a duly elected president let alone

removing him for the first time in American history and so those who have been eagerly hoping for impeachment are starting to

scramble. Schumer however kept advocating for the witnesses' inclusion on Tuesday.

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