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Article II: Inside Impeachment

No Witnesses, New Timeline

Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

After a failed vote on witnesses, a new timeline emerges for an end to the trial.

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0:00.0

The question is, shall it be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents?

0:11.0

The yeas and nays are required under Senate Resolution 483. The clerk will call the

0:16.8

role. Mr. Alexander. No. Ms. Baldwin. Aye.

0:24.0

Mr. Barasso.

0:25.0

No.

0:27.0

Mr. Bennett.

0:29.0

Aye.

0:31.0

From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.

0:35.0

I'm Steve Kurnaki.

0:36.0

It is late on Friday night, January 31st,

0:39.0

and we're back with an update on what has been a long day in the Senate trial and once again we have

0:45.2

with us Frank Thorpe NBC News producer covering Congress frankly said we'd see you

0:49.7

on the other side but we're still not at the other side I guess. Yeah we're still

0:53.8

kind of in the middle of it. So let's talk about what happened today because when I

0:57.2

talked to you this morning I think it seemed there was a pretty clear sense

1:00.8

around the Capitol what was going to happen today and what

1:03.4

happened today didn't exactly go that way so let's start on on the vote on

1:08.2

witnesses this did go sort of as expected we've been building to this for weeks

1:12.2

would they have witnesses in this trial? The vote was today. Democrats needed to get four Republicans to flip. They didn't get it. Take us through what did happen on that vote.

1:22.0

So yeah, when we spoke this morning,

1:23.8

it was a situation where we knew we had

1:27.0

Senator Lamar Alexander was a no on the witness question.

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