{"id":129927,"date":"2020-01-30T02:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/30\/trump-impeachment-republicans-aim-to-block-witnesses-as-key-vote-approaches-live\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T02:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:45:22","slug":"trump-impeachment-republicans-aim-to-block-witnesses-as-key-vote-approaches-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129927","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment: Republicans aim to block witnesses as key vote approaches \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday is first of two days of question-and-answer sessionsTrump allies seem confident they will be able to block witnessesWhite House sends letter saying John Bolton\u2019s cannot be publishedHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.42am GMT The last two questions have come from presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders asked: \u201cWhy should we be expected to believe that anything President Trump says has credibility?\u201d He noted that the media have tallied \u201cthousands of lies\u201d from Trump. 1.20am GMT Donald Trump\u2019s defense has argued that if senators were to call witnesses, the trial would drag on for too long. \u201cI want Adam Schiff. I want Hunter Biden. I want Joe Biden. I want the whistleblower,\u201d said Jay Sekulow, the lead attorney defending Trump. \u201cIf we get anybody we want, we\u2019ll be here for a very long time.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jan\/29\/trump-impeachment-trial-live-news-bolton-witnesses-mcconnell-2020-latest-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Trump impeachment: Republicans aim to block witnesses as key vote approaches \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday is first of two days of question-and-answer sessionsTrump allies seem confident they will be able to block witnessesWhite House sends letter saying John Bolton\u2019s cannot be publishedHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 1.42am GMT The last two questions have come from presidential candidates [&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-129927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129927","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=129927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}