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NYT Live Updating: Another Republican senator says he's open to a witness exchange
2 min ago
Add another name to the list of Republicans toying with calling witnesses at President Trump’s impeachment trial.
At a private luncheon of Republican senators on Monday, Senator Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, indicated to colleagues that he was open to calling witnesses if Republicans could work out an arrangement so that a witness like John R. Bolton was called in exchange for one more friendly to the president, according to Republicans familiar with his remarks not authorized to discuss them.
His remarks are another sign that Republicans are under increasing pressure after revelations that Mr. Bolton asserts in a forthcoming book that Mr. Trump told him he would not release nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine until the country had assisted with investigations into the Bidens and other Democrats.
Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, also spoke in favor of calling witnesses during the lunch, the Republicans said. He argued that doing so made sense both in terms of substance and politics.
Mr. Toomey’s views were first reported by The Washington Post.
At a private luncheon of Republican senators on Monday, Senator Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, indicated to colleagues that he was open to calling witnesses if Republicans could work out an arrangement so that a witness like John R. Bolton was called in exchange for one more friendly to the president, according to Republicans familiar with his remarks not authorized to discuss them.
His remarks are another sign that Republicans are under increasing pressure after revelations that Mr. Bolton asserts in a forthcoming book that Mr. Trump told him he would not release nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine until the country had assisted with investigations into the Bidens and other Democrats.
Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, also spoke in favor of calling witnesses during the lunch, the Republicans said. He argued that doing so made sense both in terms of substance and politics.
Mr. Toomey’s views were first reported by The Washington Post.
NYT Impeachment Live Updating blog: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/impeachment-trial-live-01-27#live-blog-list
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exchange for one more friendly to the president, that would be someone who can lie with a straight face and is dumb enough to take trumps "script" and go with it even though he could be committing perjury? 
