{"id":199052,"date":"2019-12-18T06:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/schumer-accuses-mcconnell-of-wanting-to-use-senate-for-cover-up.html"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:26:27","slug":"schumer-accuses-mcconnell-of-wanting-to-use-senate-for-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/schumer-accuses-mcconnell-of-wanting-to-use-senate-for-cover-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Schumer accuses McConnell of wanting to use Senate for &#8216;cover-up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The Senate\u2019s top Democrat Chuck Schumer on Tuesday accused Mitch McConnell, the Senate\u2019s top Republican, of wanting to use the institution to help participate in a \u201ccover-up\u201d as the Senate prepares for a likely impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that Senator McConnell wants to use the Senate to help participate in a cover-up,\u201d Schumer told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Schumer requested the testimony of four current and former White House officials, but McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has opposed this demand.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Chris Reese<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/N7yjmvKjDoo\/schumer-accuses-mcconnell-of-wanting-to-use-senate-for-cover-up-idUSKBN1YL2C3<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The Senate\u2019s top Democrat Chuck Schumer on Tuesday accused Mitch McConnell, the Senate\u2019s top Republican, of wanting to use the institution to help participate in a \u201ccover-up\u201d as the Senate prepares for a likely impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Senator McConnell wants to use the Senate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-199052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}