Witness Vote Fails, But Impeachment Trial Stretches To Next Week
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🗓️ 1 February 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. It is 806 pm on Friday, the 31st of January. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Tamar Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress, and I'm dear Gerwalsh, Congressional Editor. |
| 0:16.2 | And guys, the Senate just adjourned, but impeachment is not over. |
| 0:22.1 | It definitely is not over. |
| 0:23.8 | So we will get into what comes next later in the podcast, but let's get to this momentous |
| 0:30.1 | vote that happened earlier tonight. |
| 0:32.5 | The yeas are 49, the nays are 51. The motion is not agreed to. |
| 0:40.0 | Earlier this evening, the Senate voted 51-49 not to hear from witnesses, not to get any |
| 0:46.5 | new evidence in the impeachment trial President Trump. |
| 0:50.2 | You know, I think one of the most interesting things about that though is the Republicans |
| 0:54.3 | mostly voted together except for two of them. |
| 0:56.8 | And the two are the two people we have been watching all along, right? |
| 0:59.8 | Two of the people at least we've been watching all along, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Susan |
| 1:04.2 | Collins of Maine. |
| 1:05.6 | Just enough people to show that there were some Republicans who might want to hear from |
| 1:09.2 | witnesses and who are open to something approaching the possibility of having John Bolton appear |
| 1:14.7 | before the whole Senate. |
| 1:16.8 | And not actually having to do that, right? And not enough to make it go to a tie, which |
| 1:22.0 | would have been an interesting situation. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, the two votes is a convenient space to be in because it expresses that possibility |
| 1:29.5 | that some Republicans were open to it. |
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