Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) knocked Republicans on Thursday, accusing them of trying to use "so-called outrages" and "shiny objects" as distractions to avoid discussing potential impeachment witnesses.

"I think the case for witnesses and documents is so self-evident that many of my Republican colleagues are desperate to talk about anything else, they are so eager to change [the] conversation," Schumer said.

Schumer said that Republicans were trying to bring up things "irrelevant to a fair trial."

"They try to turn you, the press and the American people away to look at something else that has nothing to do with a trial," Schumer continued.