Fat Nads: 'I'd expect' to be impeachment manager

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that he expects to be named an impeachment manager by House Democrats following Wednesday's floor vote.

Nadler told reporters in the capitol that he didn't know the names of lawmakers Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) plans to announce as prosecutors for the Senate impeachment trial, but when asked directly if he would be named one by CNN's Manu Raju, Nadler replied: "I'd expect so."

"The American people will fully understand the Senate's move to begin the trial without witnesses and documents as a pure political cover-up," Pelosi said Tuesday at a press conference, according to CNN. "[Senate] Leader [Mitch] McConnell and the president are afraid of more facts coming to light. The American people deserve the truth, and the Constitution demands a trial."

McConnell responded in his own statement, blaming House Democrats for starting the impeachment inquiry and promising to "end it with seriousness and sobriety."

"A House majority, fueled by political animus, may have started this with frivolity. But it will fall to the Senate to end it with seriousness and sobriety," McConnell said Tuesday, according to CNN. "It will fall to us to do what the founders intended — to take the long view, move beyond partisan passions and do what the long-term good of our institutions and our nation demands." LINK