How the trial got to no on witnesses Updated: February 14
Print article WASHINGTON - The debate among the House impeachment managers raged through the night, as the hours and then minutes ticked down early Saturday before what was widely expected to be the final day of former president Donald Trump’s Senate trial. After weeks of bending to political pressure to ensure a speedy proceeding, some on the House team wanted to make one final, furious push to demand a more intensive investigation - to call witnesses to talk about Trump’s behavior before, during and after the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Late-night talks and a moment of chaos: Inside the Democrats’ eleventh-hour decision to forgo impeachment witnesses Mike DeBonis, Tom Hamburger
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Replay Video UP NEXT The debate among the House impeachment managers raged through the night, as the hours and then minutes ticked down early Saturday before what was widely expected to be the final day of former president Donald Trump’s Senate trial. After weeks of bending to political pressure to ensure a speedy proceeding, some on the House team wanted to make one final, furious push to demand a more intensive investigation to call witnesses to talk about Trump’s behavior before, during and after the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Antonia Ferrier, chief strategic communications officer at CGCN
Rohit Kumar, co-leader of PwC’s Washington National Tax Services
Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Jonathan Kott, senior adviser to Senator Chris Coons of Delaware
Jason Grumet, founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center
Scott Mulhauser, partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive
Moderated by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, The Times’s congressional editor
At least we can agree on the basics.
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The good news is that for all the public bickering, the panelists, in conversation, seem to see eye to eye on some important things. They agree, for example, that they can generally relate to one another and should spend more time doing it.