The Latest: No Witnesses

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🗓️ 1 February 2020

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In a 51-to-49 vote, Republicans shut down an effort by Democrats to bring new witnesses and documents into the Senate impeachment trial. As they cleared a path toward acquittal, some Republicans stepped forward to explain why they voted as they did — even though they believed what President Trump did was wrong. “The Latest” is a series on the impeachment process, from the team behind “The Daily.” You can find more information about it here.

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0:00.0	Here ye, here ye, here ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment.
0:07.0	The Senate will receive the managers of the House of Representatives to exhibit the
0:12.6	articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, President of the United States.
0:19.1	Let us pray, Lord, help them to remember that they can't ignore you and get away with
0:28.4	it. For we always reap what we sow.
0:37.3	It's Julie Davis in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. So this is the day this
0:41.5	entire impeachment trial has been building to. The day when the Senate would finally decide
0:46.0	on the question of whether to hear from new witnesses like John Bolton or to see new
0:50.8	evidence.
0:52.0	The question is shall it be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any
0:59.8	motion to subpoena witnesses or documents? The Ye's and Naes are required under Senate
1:05.4	resolution 483.
1:07.3	And throughout this whole process, Democrats have been looking for four moderate Republicans
1:11.8	to join them in voting to hear from new witnesses. That's how many they would have needed to
1:16.4	make it happen. And so at 6.30 p.m. they finally called the vote. And first up among the
1:22.4	moderates is Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
1:25.7	Mr. Alexander, no.
1:29.3	Then Susan Collins of Maine, then Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and finally Mitt Romney of Utah.
1:43.2	Mr. Romney.
1:46.8	Two eyes and two nose. So those four votes along with the 96 others cast today.
1:52.1	Not the Ye's are 49. The Naes are 51.
1:56.8	Went 51 to 49 with the majority voting not to hear from any witnesses or to see additional
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