It remains an open question whether new witnesses can be called in the trial that will determine whether Trump remains in office
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has said if new witnesses are called, there should be"reciprocity."
But Brown said some Senate Republicans have told him in private they see the call to have the former vice president's son testify as a"distraction." Trump is accused of using military aid to pressure Ukraine into opening two investigations he thought could benefit him politically: one into a conspiracy theory alleging Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, and the other into Biden's role in his son's appointment to the executive board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company.
Democrats are particularly eager to hear from Bolton because officials testified in the House inquiry that he was opposed to leveraging military aid to pressure Ukraine and disparaged the effort as a"drug deal." Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said on"Face the Nation" that the Senate will vote Tuesday on a resolution outlining how the trial will be conducted. He said it would mirror the format for the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton by having both sides present their cases before deciding if additional testimony was needed.
"The Senate itself is on trial, as far as I'm concerned, and the jury's the American people," Durbin said."The question is whether or not we are going to have a fair trial, whether the members of the Senate are going to be loyal to the Constitution or loyal to the president."
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