WASHINGTON, D. C.: Republicans and Democrats battled over summoning high-level White House witnesses in a marathon first day of arguments in President Donald Trump’s trial for abuse of power which can only last for 10 days, Senate majority leader Sen. Mitch McConnel said.

The two sides squared off in fiery exchanges that circled around the procedures for the trial and gave the Democrats an opportunity to spell out their arguments for Trump’s guilt on national television.

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