{"id":129793,"date":"2020-01-29T02:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/29\/impeachment-gop-leaders-reportedly-say-they-lack-votes-to-block-witnesses-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:07:56","slug":"impeachment-gop-leaders-reportedly-say-they-lack-votes-to-block-witnesses-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129793","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment: GOP leaders reportedly say they lack votes to block witnesses \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Collins: \u2018There\u2019s some gaps that need to be cleared up\u2019White House counsel to senators: reject articles of impeachmentSchiff says Trump\u2019s lawyers \u2018cannot defend president on facts\u2019Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.07am GMT Related: &#8216;Danger! Danger! Danger!&#8217; Is Trump team&#8217;s alarm for their own case? 12.53am GMT The question of whether or not the Senate will consider additional evidence and testimony loom over the impeachment trial, now that the president\u2019s defense team has concluded its opening arguments. Read the key takeaways from today: Related: Trump team\u2019s opening arguments: the key takeaways Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jan\/28\/trump-impeachment-trial-live-news-bolton-witnesses-romney-collins-2020-latest-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Impeachment: GOP leaders reportedly say they lack votes to block witnesses \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Collins: \u2018There\u2019s some gaps that need to be cleared up\u2019White House counsel to senators: reject articles of impeachmentSchiff says Trump\u2019s lawyers \u2018cannot defend president on facts\u2019Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.07am GMT Related: &#8216;Danger! Danger! Danger!&#8217; Is Trump team&#8217;s alarm for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}