Good evening with new reporting tonight that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does

not yet have the votes to block impeachment of witnesses.

We begin tonight keeping them honest with the question, will Republican senators embrace

the responsibility that comes with their sole power to conduct impeachment trials, or will

they shrink from it?

Today, as they have throughout the trial, lawyers, the president, Albutt urged them to do

the second, and far from taking umbrage, plenty of senators seem happy to oblige, and

either echo or amplify those arguments for essentially declining their role as fact-finders

and truth seekers.

Which sounds like an odd position to tape, because nobody benefits from widespread public

suspicion, the president was either removed from office or acquitted in a mockery of a

trial.

Or so you might think.

New Quinnipiac polling out today seems to reinforce the idea that people know what a

real trial looks like, and they want to see one.

Registered voters by a 75 to 20 margins say that witnesses should be allowed to testify.

Judges say that witnesses like Fire National Security Advisor John Bolton, whose upcoming

memoir reportedly says the president directly tied military aid to Ukraine to investigating

the Biden's.

Remember, just a few days ago, the president's legal team was arguing that the president

should be acquitted because not a single witness testified that the president himself said

that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential

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