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McConnell says GOP doesn’t have votes yet to block impeachment witnesses, as Bolton book disrupts trial script

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
The White House’s plans for a speedy impeachment trial were thrown into doubt Tuesday with Senate Republicans floating competing proposals on how to deal with new explosive revelations from ex-national security adviser John Bolton -- and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell telling Republicans he doesn’t yet have enough votes to block the calling of impeachment witnesses.

Trump lawyer calls Bolton book ‘inadmissible,’ as defense team wraps impeachment arguments

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
President Trump’s legal team argued John Bolton’s book manuscript should be “inadmissible” in the impeachment trial and urged an immediate acquittal as they wrapped up arguments before senators on Tuesday.

Bolton for Biden? Witness swap talk revived in wake of bombshell book manuscript

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
The jolting revelations from John Bolton’s manuscript revived on Capitol Hill talk of a witness swap as a way to hear from the former national security adviser in President Trump’s impeachment trial.

Ted Cruz lashes out at Bidens on sidelines of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial

Posted on by Vandana Rambaran
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX., said Monday that "additional witnesses are not necessary"-- even in light of revelations from President Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton in a leaked manuscript of an upcoming book that claims Trump explicitly linked a hold on military aid to Ukraine to an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden-- and instead insisted that the Senate call Hunter Biden to testify. 

Trump defense team takes on Hunter Biden directly, as Dershowitz offers constitutional defense

Posted on by Gregg Re
Pam Bondi, in a methodical presentation Monday at President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, took the fight directly to Hunter Biden -- underscoring, again and again, how even media outlets with a left-wing "bias" questioned the younger Biden's lucrative service on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings while his father oversaw Ukraine policy as vice president.

Biden pushes for witnesses in impeachment trial but says of his Ukraine role, ‘What is there to defend?’

Posted on by Vandana Rambaran
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he does not think it's necessary for him to testify as a witness in President Trump's impeachment trial because he has "nothing to defend." 

Republicans call Bolton leak Kavanaugh ‘2.0,’ as publisher denies coordination

Posted on by Tyler Olson
Republican defenders of President Trump on Monday likened the 11th-hour revelations that John Bolton's forthcoming book alleges a quid pro quo concerning the matter at the heart of impeachment to the bombshell allegations that surfaced near the end of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings -- as Bolton and his publishers adamantly denied coordinating with the media on the story. 

Nadler misses part of Senate impeachment trial because of wife’s pancreatic cancer

Posted on by Danielle Wallace
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., will skip out on part of the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump Monday in order to remain by his wife’s side as she battles pancreatic cancer.