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​Senate Intel Committee chair recalls “outrageous things” from Trump’s past that didn’t convince people he wasn’t qualified to be president

11:55 a.m. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, said that although there have been “outrageous things” released about President Trump — in particular, “I can remember his conversation with Billy Bush” — they didn’t meet “the threshold that people thought he was unqualified to be president.”

“I would only say to you the test we’re going to have,” Burr said at an event with Senator Mark Warner at Wake Forest University, in North Carolina, “and I think we’ll be presented with it — does it reach the level of removal from office?”

Burr also thinks the Senate impeachment process could take six to eight weeks. If that’s the case, Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial would be longer than the five-week Senate trial for President Bill Clinton.

Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is unhappy that this early on in the process, some of his colleagues have already made up their minds.

“What upsets me is, again, men and women I work with on either team who are jumping to conclusions, either saying, ‘I’ve already made my decision that he’s guilty or not,'” Warner said.

He added, “Let’s let this play out, but we should be doing it with a sense of sobriety and seriousness that it warrants.” — Alan He