Senate Democrats are making a final plea to at least a few GOP senators to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial as senators began two days of questioning his defense team and House prosecutors.
The next phase of the trial got under way Wednesday amid signs that a showdown vote at the end of the week on whether to call more witnesses is up for grabs. A full 16 hours of questioning will give both parties a chance to shape the debate on getting testimony from former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton or others, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is working behind the scenes to keep Republicans in line to reject a move to call witnesses in a pivotal vote as soon as Friday. Defeating that motion would lead to a quick wrapup of the trial before Trump’s State of the Union address next Tuesday.
That outcome was thrown into question by the bombshell revelation that Bolton wrote in a book draft that the president directly linked giving aid to Ukraine to getting the country’s new president to announce a probe of Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
McConnell told his colleagues at a hastily called meeting of GOP senators on Tuesday afternoon that there weren’t yet 51 firm Republican votes to block calling witnesses, according a GOP aide.
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