The Senate votes down a measure to dismiss the Trump impeachment, but only five Republicans voted to move forward with the trial.

The question, is this a sign that Trump is headed for another acquittal? Plus, the president announces a deal to help speed up the slow pace of vaccinations.

The question is, when can states expect more doses?

And the Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2021, empty with not a single player winning the votes

needed for induction.

The question, will they have better luck next year?

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I am Casey Hunt on this Wednesday, January 27th. We will start with the news. The Senate has signaled that the

effort to convict Donald Trump is likely to come up short. Yesterday, only five Senate Republicans

voted to move forward with the impeachment trial, joining Democrats in voting down Senator Rand

Paul's measure to dismiss the case because Trump is no longer in office.

If Trump is to be convicted for inciting an insurrection, 17 Republicans would need to join all 50 Democrats.

And yesterday, the only Republicans to do so were Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sass, and Pat Toomey. Senate Minority Leader

Mitch McConnell, who is reportedly undecided on whether to convict, voted that the trial is

unconstitutional, even though he refused to reconvene the Senate early in order to begin the

trial before Trump actually left office.

Senator Rob Portman later said his vote declaring the trial unconstitutional was in favor of

debating the issue and not a signal of whether he would vote to acquit.

Here are the arguments that we are hearing from Trump's supporters in the Senate.

If the accused is no longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him?

Private citizens don't get impeached.

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