Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell receives the articles of impeachment against President Trump from the House impeachment managers
GOP senators won't commit to considering new evidence that may emerge during the trialSen. Lamar Alexander is seen in September 2019 in Washington. Astrid Riecken/Getty Images
Several Senate Republicans are non-committal on whether they will allow new evidence to be presented in the Senate trial. "The question is would be why then did they bring the articles of impeachment if they didn't hear from the witnesses they wanted to hear and hadn't considered the evidence they want to consider," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee.Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of Senate Republican leadership, said:"That sounds like a decision the chief justice and the Senate may have to make... I guess i would just deal with that as it comes up.
This comes amid talk by both House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nader that Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas'It is expected that Parnas' records released yesterday will be admissible at the trial. But if more evidence emerges during the trial, it's an open open question about whether that would be allowed to be presented.
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