Jerrold Nadler had to rush back to New York on Friday for a family emergency, meaning he will miss a key day in President Trump’s trial.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski will not support hearing from new witnesses, essentially ensuring the vote fails on the Senate floor this afternoon.

The decision by a key swing vote will likely absolve Chief Justice John Roberts from having to decide whether to break a tie.

“The House chose to send articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawed. I carefully considered the need for additional witnesses and documents, to cure the shortcomings of its process, but ultimately decided that I will vote against considering motions to subpoena,” the Alaska Republican said in a statement.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will vote against a motion to consider to consider subpoenas of new witnesses and documents at President Trump’s impeachment trial, giving Republicans 51 votes to wrap up the trial soon.Murkowski said she had worked to...

Pat Cipollone allegedly witnessed a reported conversation in which John Bolton claims Trump tried to recruit him for his Ukraine scheme.

A Republican Senator from Tennessee could extinguish Democrats' attempts to bring witnesses into Donald Trump's impeachment trial, effectively ending countless hours of debate and delivering the president his acquittal from the charges levelled against him.Lamar Alexander, a key swing vote in the battle to introduce witnesses into the president's trial, said he believes it was "inappropriate and wrong" for president Mr Trump to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's son to unearth potentially politically damaging information on the former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate — but he says "it didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offence".

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