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Schumer: Meeting "only way" to resolve shutdown

As the government shutdown threatens to stretch into a second week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that he has encouraged his Democratic members to sit down with Republicans. "The only way this will ultimately be solved is if five people sit together in a room and solve it," and he said those five people are President Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Minority Leader John Thune, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer himself.

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Lawmakers spar over Senate trial rules

Congress is taking its fight into the holidays. A lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee says Democrats are open to impeaching President Trump again if new evidence of obstruction emerges. The comment was part of a petition to interview former White House counsel Don McGahn. And in a letter to colleagues, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer wrote that leaving new evidence out of a Senate trial "would be to turn a willfully blind eye to the facts." That brought pushback from his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Chip Reid reports.

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