All right, so there you have a very important statement from Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority

litter saying he's not budgeting.

He's not budgeting at all if the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to send over the articles

of impeachment, he says that's fine with us. He says there's an impasse right now.

He's offered what he describes as a compromise, the precedent that was used during the

Bill Clinton impeachment process in 98 and 99 begin with opening arguments from both sides the prosecution and the defense and then at that point have a vote on witnesses to come forward.

Lauren Fox, our congressional reporter is joining us right now.

Lauren, so it looks like there's a serious impasse, a lot of us thought there would be a trial beginning what early January

doesn't look like that's going to happen now the speaker is even refusing to

formally send over those two articles of impeachment well that's exactly right Wolf and I think McConnell's

words there underscore what an impasse this is. Of course we were waiting for this

big meeting between Schumer and McConnell had happened today and clearly it did not go well.

What we know is that Leader Schumer essentially was asking for those witnesses,

the same witnesses he asked for in the letter on Sunday that he sent to majority leader McConnell and he was not

budget making that position clear during the meeting but it made it very hard for those

two leaders to find even a simple date to come back to Washington to begin this trial.

Of course, that was just the bare minimum

that members were expecting from those two leaders to come up with.

So not a good spot tonight in Washington

as we await when this Senate trial will be.

I think what McConnell was underscoring today is if Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to send us

these impeachment articles, that's up to her. He said, quote, I admit, I'm not sure what leverage there is in

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