Schumer: Trump impeachment in the Senate after February 8. Biden calls the neighbors: Trudeau and Obrador

Chuck Schumer (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

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January 23, 2021 The United States Senate will begin the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump the week of February 8. This was announced by majority leader

in the Senate chamber, as reported by the US media. The senator confirmed the timing of the proceedings of the Chamber specifying that on Monday 25 January the Chamber will deliver the documents to the Senate: the following day all the formal documents will be held that will start the hearing.

According to

, the decision would come after the agreement reached between the leader of the Schumer majority and that of the minority

, accepting on paper the requests of the Republicans but in fact satisfying both sides. If Trump and his lawyers have two more weeks to work on the trial, the Senate will be able to continue voting on the nominations for new president Biden.

and

had a "warm" telephone conversation in which they agreed to meet "next month," the Canadian Prime Minister's Office said. In a 30-minute conversation, the new president of the United States and Trudeau "decided to carry on the important work of renewing the deep and lasting friendship between Canada and the US," according to a statement. 

Another telephone conversation between the president of the United States and his Mexican counterpart,

. The fight against the pandemic, the theme of immigration and cooperation were at the center of the discussion. López Obrador reported on his Twitter account that Biden was "friendly and respectful" towards Mexico. "Everything indicates that relations will be good for the good of our peoples and our nations," he wrote.

and a Justice Department lawyer had devised a plan to oust Jeffrey Rosen, acting attorney general after William Barr's resignation, and use the power of the ministry to force Georgia lawmakers to overturn the outcome of the presidential election in that state, The New York Times reveals it citing four former administration executives who have asked for anonymity. 

 The attorney in question, Jeffrey Clark, had let the then president know that he shared his allegations of fraud and was ready to comply with the requests for investigations instead denied by Rosen. But department executives had unanimously threatened on a conference call that they would resign if Rosen was fired. Only this consequence, according to the NYT, would have kept Trump from the tear, calculating that the controversy over the mass resignation at the top of the ministry would have eclipsed attention to his baseless accusations of fraudulent elections.