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If my Republican colleagues refuse to even consider witnesses and documents in this trial,

this country is headed towards the greatest cover-up since Watergate.

That was sent at minority leader Chuck Schumer grappling with a stark reality.

The impeachment trial of Donald John Trump is coming to its inevitable conclusion.

By Friday morning, the vote for calling John Bolton and other witnesses to testify about what

they knew about President Trump's conduct was doomed to failure. The outcome became fully

apparent Thursday night. When, after much suspense, Senator Lamar Alexander,

one of a handful of moderates who could have made the difference, released the statement saying that

even though the president's behavior was, as he put it, inappropriate.

And even though he concluded the House managers had proved their most essential charge,

that Trump had withheld military aid to Ukraine, at least in part, to pressure the country

to investigate the Biden's, it didn't matter. There was, he said, no need for more evidence in the case.

Why not? Because the president's actions, Alexander said, do not meet the high constitutional

standards for impeachment. Let the voters decide what to make of Trump's behavior, Alexander

concluded. Is this, as Schumer alleges, a Watergate style cover-up, where the all too predictable

end to an impeachment process that was partisan and never had any real chance of removing Trump

from office? We'll talk with Mike Murphy, one of Alexander's former political advisors,

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