Can I Get A Witness?

Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Senate votes on calling witnesses, signaling a possible end to the Senate trial.

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0:00.0	Mr McConnell.
0:05.0	I think you love the boats.
0:08.0	Do you believe it only in a fiddle boat tonight?
0:10.0	Take a hole.
0:11.0	Well, I think we can all agree this is a big day.
0:15.0	From NBC News this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Kurnaki today is Friday January 31st and the
0:25.5	impeachment of President Donald Trump is coming to a close. This was not
0:30.0	supposed to happen but I have great confidence in the Republicans in the
0:33.6	Republican Senate and I know they're going to be fair. President Trump talking to
0:37.0	Fox News last night in Iowa, clearly feeling good about where this is heading.
0:41.6	The Senate will vote today on whether to call new witnesses
0:45.8	to testify in the impeachment trial.
0:48.2	Assuming for the sake of argument that Ambassador Bolton would come and testify,
0:53.0	even if that happened, even if he gave that testimony,
0:56.0	the articles of impeachment still wouldn't rise to an impeachable offense.
1:00.0	The result of that vote determines what happens next.
1:03.6	You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial.
1:05.7	And you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and that.
1:10.8	I would hope that.
1:11.8	It's looking like it's going to be another very long day on the Senate floor.
1:15.0	So before things get started, we are bringing you a roadmap for how all of this could play out.
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