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9.30pm GMT
The press is gathering ahead of the Democrats planned delivery of the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
However, it sounds like the Republicans don’t actually plan on accepting them tonight. Senate leaders have said they will tell the House members to return tomorrow to present the articles if they deliver them at 5pm ET as planned, according to CNN. Democrats have said they intend to stick with the 5pm plan.
Cameras starting to gather to document procession of House clerk to Senate to “exhibit” the articles of impeachment and formally notify the Senate that managers have been appointed
This is the first of many ceremonial steps we’ll witness over next few days as we head to trial pic.twitter.com/SaltBIqTcK
9.08pm GMT
A Michigan state senator, who has suggested he could run for governor, has apologized after telling a reporter that a group of boys could have “a lot of fun” with her.
State senator Peter Lucido, a Republican, told the reporter, Allison Donahue, he could speak to her for a story after he was done honoring a group of students from an all-boys school who were standing nearby.
“You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you.”
The teenagers burst into an Old Boys’ Network-type of laughter, and I walked away knowing that I had been the punchline of their “locker room” talk.
