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On the Senate floor Thursday morning, before Pelosi spoke, McConnell read quotes from Democratic senators who have expressed impatience over the stalled articles of impeachment.

Quoting Feinstein, McConnell said Pelosi has united senators against her.

\"The Speaker of the House has managed to do the impossible: she's created this growing bipartisan unity here in the Senate in opposition to her own reckless behavior,\" McConnell said.

\"Senators may not agree on much, but it appears most of us still recognize a threat to our institution when we see one,\" he added.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., also took note of Democrats' comments about the impeachment articles.

“The only person who does not believe it is time is Speaker Pelosi, and I do not know why,\" he said of turning the articles over to the Senate. \"Maybe she thinks the case is too weak.”

House Democratic leadership and staff have continued actively preparing for the Senate trial behind closed doors. Pelosi must first name the managers - the House Democrats appointed to present the case in the Senate - and the chamber must approve a resolution naming the team before the articles can be formally delivered to the Senate, which would immediately trigger the opening proceedings of the trial.

At the White House, President Trump, asked whether his former national security adviser, John Bolton, should testify as Democrats have demand, Trump said \"we have to protect presidential privilege”but did not specifically say he would invoke it regarding Bolton.

As he had before, Trump said it would be up to the Senate as to whether it would call Bolton to testify.

“We have to protect presidential privilege. When we start allowing national security advisers to just go up and say whatever they want to say, we can't do that,” he said.

Asked if he’d support a deal for witnesses that included former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, he replied, \"I'm going to leave it to the Senate.\"

But he added that he wanted to hear from Schiff, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the first whistleblower, and the second whistleblower. \"So yeah, if we do that I would like to have those people plus others testify.\"

McConnell has said the question of whether there should be any witnesses at all should be put off until the middle of a trial.

ABC News' Mariam Khan and Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.

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